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Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google is using artificial intelligence in its Google translate app to make it better and claims that it as good as a human translator. The new version is supposed to cut down errors by 80%.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone displaying the Google logo next to a picture of a landscape, hand holding a smartphone taking a picture of "sortie" and displaying the "exit" on the screen, hand holding a smartphone next to vegetables and displaying the translation aubergine-melanzana.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone
Augmented reality children's book brings bedtime stories to life in 3D
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 24.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, virtual reality
Summary | Companies are trying to incorporate augmented reality to their products. For instance, you can now use an augmented reality app with 5 hardback books and transform bedtime stories in 3D.
Image Description | Video explaining how the app works, photograph of a tablet and a book, photograph of an open book, and photograph of a man and a woman
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), tablet
What the Kitty Genovese Killing Can Teach Today's Digital Bystanders
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 4.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, smartphone, threat, video communication
Summary | There are a few services now which allow smartphone users to broadcast videos live, for example on Facebook and on the Perscope app. Multiple people have already livestremed crimes like murder or sexual assault with a live audience watching without anyone having called the police. This is not right even though bystanders are no legally obliged to step in if they see a crime happening in most states.
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Women who use a smart phone instead of the pill
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 2.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Bethanie Alys is 20 years old, and she has a four-month-old. She became pregnant because she followed what her fertility app said. Fertility apps are supposed to track a woman's changes during her menstrual cycle and can tell when she can conceive and when she is not fertile and can have unprotected sex.
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Choose daddy app that lets women pick a spern donor
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 26.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Women can now download an app and browse potential sperm donors to have a child. They can choose between different options such as height, ethnicity, education, and hair color.
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Forget India - Lenovo is betting on Africa as next big smartphone market
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 27.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Eric Cador, president of Lenovo in Europe, Middle East and Africa, wants to reach Africa. Africa can be the next great market and smartphone superpower. By 2020, around 70 per cent of Africans will be using smartphones. Lenovo is the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman taking a picture of someone with a smartphone, photograph of Eric Cador, chart representing 2015 smartphone vendor market share, photograph of a laptop
Image Tags | chart, computer/laptop, female(s), male(s), smartphone
Stuck on your GCSE and A Level revision? This app can help
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | school, smartphone
Summary | Gojimo is a revision app for GCSE and A level revisions. It includes more than 180,000 quizzes, and it can also connect students with tutors.
Image Description | Photograph of a classroom/exam room full of students, three iPhones displaying some of Gojimo's features, portrait of the founder of Gojimo, photograph of an iPhone screen displaying the app.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Google boss on life beyond the smartphone and how the company will pay more tax in the UK
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 1.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, smartphone
Summary | The author of the article first describes Google headquarters (objects, atmosphere, workers etc.). She then talks about Sundar Pichai (Google's chief executive). Pichai wants people to see Google as a full-on assistant that can help them accomplish all sorts of tasks. In the future, Pichai wants Google to target homes and cars. The future is also linked to artificial intelligence. They want to work with new techniques that relie on neural networks in order to allow computers to teach themselves. Pichai talks about the future: using AI in medicine, privacy issures, personal assistants, Google search option, Google translate, and other services.
Image Description | Four photographs of Sundar Pichai, Google HQ, man holding Google Home and speaking, driveless car, video about the history of Google
Image Tags | Google, male(s)
Pokemon Go: What is it, how to play it and everything you need to know
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 26.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | The augmented reality game Pokemon Go is now available in the UK. Users can catch Pokemons in real life thanks to their smartphone. Pokemon Go is a popular game around the world, but playing the game can be dangerous; there have been robberies, shootings, and car accidents because of the game.
Image Description | Screenshot of Charlotte Nice's tweet, two videos about the game, two photographs of hands holding a smartphone displaying the game Pokemon Go, four photographs about accidents and injuries linked to the game.
Image Tags | game, hand(s), smartphone, Twitter
What are AirPods and why has Apple dropped the headphone jack?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Apple announced that the new iPhone 7 would not have any headphone jack; instead, they will introduce wireless headphones (AirPods). The future is wireless, and the goal is to make headphones smarter.
Image Description | Two videos introducing the headphones, photographs of the headphones, screenshot of Lance Ulanoff's tweet about the headphones, photograph of a man wearing an AirPod, screenshot of James Titcomb's tweet, photograph of a hand holding the AirPods and another hand taking a picture of the AirPods with an iPhone.
Image Tags | hand(s), headphones, male(s), smartphone
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