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Mirko Borsche lässt sich eine japanische Speisekarte vorlesen

(Mirko Borsche has a Japanese menu read to him)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 3.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Google, translation
Summary | The new Google Translate app can translate texts that one has typed in or photographed and it can translate spoken language. It can be very useful when traveling to places where one does not understand the language. Users can just photograph a restaurant menu in a foreign language and have the Google Translate spit out the translation.
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Internet Kompakt

(Internet compact)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 3.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Google, Snapchat
Summary | The most recent news in technology: Snap, the head company of Snapchat, is losing worth on the stock market - it is at an all-time low, in fact. A new app called "boon" for Android will enable users to transfer mobile payments. Ever since the launch of a Netflix series about suicide, Google has seen a tremendous rise in searches related to suicide.
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Googles graue Eminenz

(Google's gray eminence)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google's artificial intelligence assistant may not be perfect yet but it will become a part of all our lives. It may still struggle to understand the context of a question but the more people use it, the faster it will learn. It will be able to find you that one picture from your trip to Italy showing your mother without you having to attach keywords to all pictures in your photo album.
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Warum wir nie wieder Smalltalk machen müssen

(Why we never have to do smalltalk again)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 4.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, threat
Summary | Chatbots operated with artificial intelligence like Google's Allo will soon obliterate our need to engage in smalltalk. It can suggest appropriate or social expected responses to generic messages and other content. It can for example recognize an image of food and suggest to respond "yummy!". This can be convenient but it can also result in chatbots essential talking to other chatbots in the name of their human users.
Image Description | Getty image illustration showing a man and a microchip.
Image Tags | male(s)

Mein bester Freund ist jetzt ein SMS-Butler

(My new best friend is an SMS butler)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 28.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Google, marketing, politeness, texting
Summary | A new text messaging service is available: an SMS butler. It is an actual human who can be contacted via text message at all times to perform little tasks like find out some simple information (that one is too lazy to Google) or order pizza. The former taks is free, the latter one costs a little extra. The butler takes a provision on services that require payment. He is however always very happy to perform his task - whether he gets paid or not. This is indicated by the obligatory smiley face attached to every message.
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Neuer Messenger: Google konkurriert mit Whatsapp

(New messenger: Google competes with WhatsApp)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 22.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, WhatsApp
Summary | Google is launching a new messaging service called "Allo". It is supposed to compete with WhatsApp with its advantage of incorporating artificial intelligence to suggest appropriate responses to messages. It also includes chatbots that can make restaurant reservations or check the weather forecast.
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Das steckt hinter Googles Sucht nach Innovationen

(This is behind Google's obsession with innovations)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, translation
Summary | Google is always on top of new trends in technology, usually they even set the trends. They are at a turning point right now: the past few years were a search for innovations under the header "mobile first" but now all innovations are geared towards improving artificial intelligence and machine learning. One of the biggest sub-projects of that is Google Translate. Thousands of people around the world are working on improving the translations in as many languages as possible. Users will even be able to take a picture of, say, a menu and have it translated on their smartphone.
Image Description | Image of Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | Google, male(s)

So gefährlich ist die dunkle Seite der Online-Werbung

(This is how dangerous the dark side of online advertising is )

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, law, marketing, threat
Summary | Hackers have found new ways to enter people's computers more effectively. Online advertisements can run a malware script as soon as one is on the website where the advertisement is shown - without clicking on it. This is dangerous for all websites that display advertising - the biggest advertisers online being Facebook and Google.
Image Description | Image of the Google headquarters with a male silhouette in front of it.
Image Tags | Google, logo, male(s)

"Geht mal aus dem Bild, ich google gerade"

("Get out of the picture, I'm googling something")

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | All innovations at Google include artificial intelligence. So does Google Lens: it enables users to take a picture of anything and get information about it delivered by Google. If one takes a picture of a flower, for instance, one learns its specific name and classification, how to care for it, as well as contact information of florist shops nearby. The image and pattern recognition software needed for such a service is within the realm of artificial intelligence.
Image Description | A Getty image of Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | male(s)

Das steckt hinter Googles Sucht nach Innovationen

(This is behind Google's addiction for innovations)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, translation
Summary | Google is always after the most exciting innovations. Their main focus at the moment is on artificial intelligence assistants which can be operated conversationally. Because they are voice-activated, issues with privacy come up: is Google's AI assistant constantly listening in? Google is working on solutions for making privacy settings as customizable as possible. Another big focus is translation. Google translate can already operate in 100 languages and now users can even scan, say a restaurant menu, and get it translated right away.
Image Description | Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | male(s)

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