Number of Posts: 68
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Facebook has 60 people working on how to read your mind
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook, texting
Summary | Facebook's long term development plans include reading your mind by means of external devices that measure brainwaves and translate them into text. This would emable users to type five times as fast and without having to take their phones out. This way one would no longer have to pause a face-to-face conversation to write a text.
Image Description | Reuters images of Regina Dugan, head of Facebook’s hardware innovation division.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s)
People who swear a lot are more likely to be honest, study finds
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 18.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, politeness, research/study
Summary | Researchers found out that people who cuss more are more likely to be honest. If they do not filter their language to please other people, they are less likely to filter the content too. The study analysed thousands of Facebook posts and found that Facebook users in the north east of the US are more prone to use expletives in their posts while users from the south use less swear words. Those who cussed on Facebook also used a lexicon indicating honesty (such words as "I" and "me").
Image Description | Getty image of a woman crossing her fingers behind her back and a Reuters image of Donald Trump.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s)
Facebook reportedly testing new tool to combat fake news
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 6.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, threat
Summary | Facebook is apparently looking into ways to combat fake news spreading on their platform. They have had to face much criticism because of this. Users have started getting little survey questions after clicking on news media links posted on Facebook asking them to evaluate how trustworthy the article is. It is not known what Facebook will do with the results of this poll.
Image Description | Getty image of the Facebook logo on various screens and a tweet.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), Twitter
Mark Zuckerberg confirms Facebook is working on mind-reading technology
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 19.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is working on mind reading technology by means of non-invasive device measuring brain waves. The goal is to allow people to write without typing. This would make it possible for users to write five times faster than they can by typing.
Image Description | Reuters image of Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Tags | male(s)
Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis robot assistant has a famous celebrity voice
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 21.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Mark Zuckerberg is working on an artificial intelligence assistant to help him in his household. It can be operated by voice command or text messaging and it can make toast, operate his lights or front door, or shoot grey t-shirts out of his closet. Its voice is the voice of Morgan Freeman. The only problem is that not all household appliances can be hooked up to the chatbot since they do not have wifi connectibility.
Image Description | Portraits of Mark Zuckerberg and Morgan Freeman as well as some tweets about the news story.
Image Tags | male(s), Twitter
Facebook blocks Russia Today from posting until day after Trump's inauguration
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, politics
Summary | Facebooked has revoked posting rights of multimedia content for the Facebook page of Russian news publication Russia Today. They had reposted a video from elsewhere and thereby committed a copyright violation. Russia Today reacted furiously because this block keeps them from covering Donald Trump's inauguration.
Image Description | Russia Today Twitter and Facebook posts.
Image Tags | Facebook, Twitter
Madeleine McCann mystery could be solved by Facebook according to ex-police chief and forensics expert
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 2.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, law
Summary | The parents of Maddie McCann who disappeared ten years ago are still looking for her. Police are now looking into possibilities of using Facebook's sophisticated face recognition to scan international passport image data in case she has been taken across a border through child trafficking.
Image Description | Images of Maddie McCann from the time when she disappeared and later police adaptations trying to depict what she would look like at older ages and depending on the climate in which she has spent these years.
Image Tags | female(s)
Exhausted students 'crying in toilets and breaking down in class' over 'unfair' new GCSE grading system
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 9.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Facebook, politics, school, threat
Summary | A student has posted a rant about changes to the GCSE exam system making it yet more difficult. She describes how the whole student body has mental health issues since the changes were announced and just how ridiculous the expectations are. Her post has been shared almost 30'000 times by agreeing parents, teachers, and fellow students. Many commenters support her criticism while others show no understanding claiming that tests are meant to be hard.
Image Description | Getty images of someone writing with a pencil, and two images of exam situations, as well as a screengrab of the original Facebook rant.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), male(s), school
Woman's hilarious rant after Original Source shower gel 'leaves her vagina ablaze' - and she's not alone
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | German
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | A woman posted about a showering accident she had with a specific tingling mint-scented shower gel so that other people would not make the same mistake. She very graphically described how painful the shower gel is when it gets in contact with the genitals. People found her post hilarious and relatable so it was shared and commented on by many.
Image Description | Selfie of the woman with the shower gel, photos of the cosmetic product in question, Image bank image of a woman showering, Getty image of a man showering, and an image of a shower head running water.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Cop launches furious rant about 'yoofs' - but parents are really not happy
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 11.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, politeness, social media, youth
Summary | An unidentified police officer posted a rant about youths in the Manchester area asking parents to "lock up their kids till school time on Monday" because they are out of control, causing public nuisance. Local teachers and parents reported the post as wildly inappropriate and the heads of the police department issued an apology and promised to find out who posted the offensive content as officers are supposed to uphold their standard of behavior online as well. Many people however liked the post because they felt understood. They commented engourangments to the anonymous officer that he/she should not let the political correctness army get him/her down and keep his/her sense of humor.
Image Description | Getty images of young men/boys in black tracksuits from behind and a young man/boy with his face partially hidden with a black hoodie.
Image Tags | male(s)
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