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Viv, le nouvel assistant personnel des créateurs de Siri
(Viv, the new personal assistant of Siri's creators)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | The new personal assistant Viv is more efficient than Siri. Viv understands natural language and can answer complex questions and requests thanks to artificial intelligence.
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Peut-on vivre sans écrans?
(Can we live without screens?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 13.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | In the past few years, new technologies have been spreading so fast. We use our smartphone everywhere (restaurant, bathroom, street). A few French people decided to unplug for an hour, a weekend, or their whole life. Marie Bezou says that she felt free when she gave up her phone. People who try to regulate their use of digital devices are rare. A 16-year old girl claims that she doesn't use her phone very often, unlike other young people who are hyperconnected. People who own a smartphone look at their device about 150 times a day.
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L'ordinateur personnel est-il condamné à disparaître?
(Are personal computers going to disappear?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | smartphone, threat
Summary | Computer sales are down; more and more people only use their smartphone and don't need a personal computer. Smartphones are spreading faster than any new technology (besides TV). in 1977 the PC era was launched with Bill Gates, but today, computer sales are down. However, for certain uses, computers are still preferred (e.g. video games).
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The Pilot, des oreillettes de traduction quasiment en temps réel
(The Pilot, translation earpieces that work almost instantanly)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 21.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | translation
Summary | The Pilot (translation earpieces) allow people who speak different languages to communicate easily via bluetooth. The American company Waverly Labs created the earpieces.
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Plus d'humain et de culture dès le plus jeune âge
(More people and culture from an early age)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 5.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, technology-free, threat
Summary | As soon as a baby is born, he/she needs to be stimulated. Adults should talk to babies, play with them, look at them, and reassure them. However, more and more digital devices are starting to replace human presence. Adults don't hesitate to give their toddlers a tablet or a smartphone. This new trend can have a serious impact on children's cognitive development and language development.
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Le point à la fin du SMS: un mauvais signe
(A period at the end of a text: a bad sign)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 5.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | abbreviations, misunderstanding, punctuation, spelling, texting, word/writing
Summary | Texting is becoming very popular among younger people who will soon be getting their smartphone transplanted on their hand. The language of texting is "cool", does not necessarily follow traditional rules, uses phonetics and abbreviations. Moreover, to replace the tone of voice and other nonverbal cues that are lacking in writing, people use emoticons. Now, it seems that adding a period at the end of a text can lead to misunderstandings.
Image Description | Photograph of a businessman walking and looking at his phone
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Une application pour attirer des 'touristes linguistiques' en France
(An application to attract 'linguistic tourists' in France)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 25.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | digitized education
Summary | Immersion France is a new app that associates language travels with the learning of French language, culture and gastronomy. Through the app, people have access to various travel opportunities in different language centers.
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Figures libres. Naissance de la philoselfie
(Freestyle. Birth of philoselfie)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 5.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | selfie, virtual reality
Summary | The word "selfie" was created in 2002. Then it was used to designate a picture of oneself taken with a smartphone. In 2013, "selfie" was chosen as word of the year. Elsa Godard explores in her book "Je selfie donc je suis" how this recent digital activity expresses different relationships: with oneself, others, time, space, language, desire. She also tries to understand the relationship between real and virtual.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone on a selfie stick.
Image Tags | selfie stick, smartphone
Un cerveau dans les réseaux
(A brain among networks)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 10.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Yann LeCun was hired by Zuckerberg to join the Facebook team in 2013. LeCun is a master of artificial intelligence, which is why he was hired. LeCun became interested in neural networks after reading a conversation between Chomsky and Piaget about language learning.
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Pour être branché, débranchez-vous
(To be hip, unplug)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 6.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, technology-free
Summary | The author of the article talks about one of his recent experiments: he tried to stay away from social networks for 10 days. Although it was difficult at first, he thought it was a positive experience. He found his ability to concentrate, and realized that his thoughts could be summarized in more than 140 characters. According to a British survey, more than half of adults consider themselves addicted. Harvard researchers claimed that Facebook and Twitter can be as addictive as alcohol or nicotine.
Image Description | Screenshot of a facebook page and a pointer clicking on "log off"
Image Tags | Facebook
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