Number of Posts: 59
Posts 41 - 50
Oh mein Bot!
(Oh my bot!)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook messenger offers a lot of chatbots. They are however not very good - yet. They are most useful for finding out simple information quickly, quicker than if one were to google, say, the weather forecast. Developers are constantly working on improving chatbots. The most quickly developing technology is voice recognition so that people can speak with chatbots.Contrary to science fiction belief however, programmers have no intentions of making chatbots seem as human as possible - they should be efficient not mistaken for an actual person.
Image Description | Getty image of a CGI woman with a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
Chat mit einem Untoten: "Ich vermisse dich auch"
(Chat with an undead: "I miss you too")
Newspaper | Spiegel Online
Date | 29.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | A Russian programmer has made a deceased friend of hers into an artificial intelligence robot. She used all their numerous Facebook conversations to feed the robot so that it could learn his manneurisms. The toughest part is to teach a computer how to understand all non-literal meaninings we casually use while communicating.
Image Description | Image of the programmer and her friend.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Hohe Ablenkung durch Handy am Steuer
(High distraction because of cell phone while driving)
Newspaper | Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Date | 11.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | law, smartphone, texting, threat
Summary | Many people text while driving and do not realize how dangerous it is - more dangerous than talking on the phone. The statistics calculated by the German police are not complete they assume that 10% of car accidents is caused by cell phone distraction of a driver. They advocate for a raising of the fines, they are too low now so that people are willing to risk a fine.
Image Description | Image of a woman holding a smartphone while behind the wheel, a totaled car and a portrait of the interviewee (police officer).
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Pling, Pling, Doppel-Pling
(Ding, Ding, Double-Ding)
Newspaper | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, social media, WhatsApp, youth, YouTube
Summary | A day in the life of a 13 year old who receives 200 messages a day. Lina uses her smartphone first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Though her father does not necessarily like her constant use of the smartphone and the notifications all the time, he is not worried about an addicion. Parents were taught about the risks on parent-teacher meetings. Lina is in a ton of group chats and is beginning to use Musical.ly. YouTube is a staple entertainment source for her.
Image Description | Lina with the smartphone on her bed and a hand holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
So erobern Zahnspangen-Mädchen die Werbewelt
(This is how girls with braces are conquering the world of advertising)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Instagram, law, marketing, Snapchat, social media, youth, YouTube
Summary | A new breed of celebrities has emerged: social media celebrities or 'influencers' as they are called in marketing. These ordinary youths have millions of followers on Instagram, Snapchat, Musical.ly, or YouTube and are attractive to advertisers, not only because of their large following but because their fans feel personally close to them and are more likely to accept advice from them than from a distant celebrity. It is however still illegal to covertly advertise a product without notifying viewers that they are viewing sponsored content.
Image Description | German Musical.ly stars Lisa and Lena.
Image Tags | female(s)
Ärger mit vermeintlich kostenfreien Apps
(Trouble with supposedly free apps)
Newspaper | Bergische Morgenpost
Date | 15.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, childhood, game, youth
Summary | Parents need to be warned about the hidden costs of supposedly free games. They are hugely popular among children and youths and free at first, like drugs where the first dose is often free, and then they get very expensive very quickly. Experts discourage parents from sharing their credit card information with their children. Addiction experts also advise parents to set up rules of smartphone usage with their children and enforce them - that is the only way how we can keep ourselves from getting addicted to our smartphones in a world of constant availability: by setting the limits ourselves.
Image Description | Pixabay photograph of a woman holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
Emoji-Verbot bei der Polizei
(Emoji prohibition for the police)
Newspaper | Tagesspiegel
Date | 16.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, law, Twitter
Summary | In a recent tweet by the Saxon local police, they used an emoji. That is inappropriate. The emoji was of a megaphone. That is distasteful because it depicts complicated matters as simple and light-hearted, almost humorous.
Image Description | Photograph of the author.
Image Tags | female(s)
Kopftuch-Emoji und 50 weitere Zeichen könnten 2017 kommen
(Hijab emoji and 50 other signs could come in 2017)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The Unicode Constortium has published a list of 51 emojis that they are planning on adding to the collection this year. Among them are a breast-feeding emoji, an emo emoji, as well as a hijab emoji. None of these are 100% confirmed but the hijab emoji has very prominent supporters: the Reddit founder created a thread specifically for the 15-year old girl from Berlin who submitted the design for the hijab emoji.
Image Description | A collection of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Es lebe das Kopftuch-Smiley
(Long live the hijab emoji)
Newspaper | Berliner Kurier
Date | 14.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A 15 year old girl from Berlin submitted a hijab emoji proposal to the Unicode Consortium who are in charge of adding new emojis. Low and behold, the proposal was accepted and now there will be an emoji of a smiling woman in a hijab on phones all around the world to represent the 550 million women wearing hijabs. The proposal had been very popular on social media so the wide support certainly helped.
Image Description | Hijab emoji proposal document (7 pages).
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Das sind die beliebtesten Fotos auf Instagram 2016
(These are the most popular photographs on Instagram 2016)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 1.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram
Summary | The undefeated queen of Instagram is Selena Gomez. She has the most followers: over one million. Many of the most-liked pictures on Instagram are hers. Another extremely popular picture on Instagram is of Christiano Ronaldo kissing the trophy of the European football championship. The general mood on Instagram is positive with the most popular emojis being hearts and the most popular hashtags revolving around happiness.
Image Description | Various popular Instagram posts.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), Instagram, male(s)
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