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Das sind die besten Apps, um Sprachen zu lernen
(These are the best apps to learn languages)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 24.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, smartphone, translation
Summary | Babbel, Duolingo, and Busuu are currently among the most popular language learning apps. They are great for starters because all that is needed is a smartphone and some free time here and there, for instance while waiting for the bus. In order to learn a foreign language fluently, however, one needs to practice with native speakers.
Image Description | Hand holding a smartphone and using a language learning app.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Saudi-Arabien verdammt Pokémon Go als unislamisch
(Saudi Arabia bans Pokémon Go as unislamic)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 21.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | Saudi Arabia has banned Pokémon Go because it falls under the rubric of gambling which is prohibited in Islam. Further, it resembles Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and some symbols in the game resemble Christian and Jewish symbolism. Some people have however illegally downloaded the game on their smartphones. It lets users "catch" Pokémon thanks to augmented reality.
Image Description | Hands holding smartphones with a woman wearing a hijab in the background.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
Der Computer lernt Mundart
(The computer learns Swiss German)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, translation
Summary | The SBB app should be updated so the users can just speak their destinations and they will verbally receive the transport information. The developers say that the voice recognition software should be able to understand most dialects of Swiss German despite never having been enhanced with a Swiss German vocabulary. Lots of it is similar enough to German so that the software can detect the connection or it otherwise reports words that it does not understand so that they can be manually entered. Users should be pleased because it is just nicer when one does not have to speak Standard German to one's smartphone.
Image Description | Image of a hand holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Wenn das Handy antwortet: So zahlen wir in Zukunft
(When the phone responds: this is how we will pay in the future)
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 2.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Various companies like Google and Amazon are coming up with new conversational commerce solutions, i.e. (voice command) chatbots with which one can conversationally make purchases online. Making payments via smartphone apps is very common in China while Switzerland is lagging behind. Some companies like Mastercard are already working on further ways to pay, namely by verbal cues. This means that people will only have to say it to secure the payment.
Image Description | Two informational videos and a series of photos from a technology convention.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet
The 15 phone apps that could make your life a whole lot happier
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | There are a variety of apps to make all aspects of life more convenient: an weather forecast app that suggests appropriate clothing, an app that helps you pack, apps that help you find the nearest public toilet cheapest gas station, your car in a carpark by retracing your steps (pirate treasure map themed), or cheapest flight, then an app that synchronizes your notes between your devices and with select contacts, an app that lets your friends or family trace your walk home at night, an app that lets you keep an eye on the whereabouts of your children or spouse, apps that remember your passwords and banking details safely, an app that helps you budget your finances or your time spent on your smartphone, and even an app that lets you know which parts of movies you can easily miss for a bathroom break.
Image Description | A Getty image of a man holding a smartphone and chatting on WhatsApp, and images of a toilet, a plane, some hands holding money, a packed suitcase, and a woman using a smartphone in a movie theater.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, WhatsApp
Kommunikation ist alles
(Communication is everything)
Newspaper | Frankfurter Neue Presse
Date | 4.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | abbreviations, childhood, language threat, smartphone
Summary | Many young children already have smartphones. It is problematic if youths spend too much time on new media - they don't learn how to interact face-to-face so that they whip out the phone even if they are hanging out with a friend. They increasingly write in abbreviations which makes them do badly in school. Parents are part of the problem, because they demand that their children be available on the smartphone at all times. It is important to give children positive offline experiences.
Image Description | Image of a man holding a cell phone and holding his thumb up.
Image Tags | cell phone, hand(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
The five lessons I learned from breaking my smartphone
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | brain, research/study, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | After dropping her smartphone in the sink, the author lives without one for six weeks and discovers that she sleeps better without a smartphone, enjoys being unavailable, few things need to be tended to urgently, that she spends less money, and her memory suffers from having a smartphone. Studies have also confirmed that it is detrimental to one's sleep pattern to sleep next to a smartphone because notifications release dopamin in the brain similarly to a nicotine or recreational drug addiction. She values the time she now has to just not be available for messages from work because we tend to respond to any and all messages as if they were urgent when really they are not. The author reports to spend less money because she can no longer do online shopping on the go without a smartphone. She has also realized how dependent on Google she has become. Neurological studies confirm that our brains are adapting to the constant accessibility of all information by remembering how to find it and googling again if necessary rather than remembering the little snippets of information.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman's hands holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
Wir schauen täglich 88-mal aufs Handy
(We look at our mobile phones 88 times a day)
Newspaper | 20 Minuten
Date | 13.10.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone
Summary | We spend 2.5 hours a day using our smartphones, and young people spend 3 hours a day. We look at our phones 88 times a day on average because the expectation of a message releases dopamin into our blood flow. The same mechanism causes gambling addiction with slot machines. We need to make an actual effort to make room for smartphone and internet free time in order to stay focused on the task at hand. Otherwise we run the risk of suffering from a ‘digital burnout’.
Image Description | Series of three photographs: portrait of interviewee, hands holding smartphones, and child using his smartphone in bed.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s), smartphone
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