Number of Posts: 16
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"Es liegt eine Magie darin"
("There's a lot of magic in it")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy, virtual reality, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | Facebook is planning to create innovations to accommodate their users' obvious desires to watch videos on Facebook to the extent that Facebook can curently compete with YouTube for views. The sharing of videos has shot up on Facebook as of late. Facebook's live streaming feature also helps with that. Future plans include virtual reality options. Many users are worried about privacy issues because Facebook is connecting data from WhatsApp with Facebook data.
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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
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
Die Pokémon-Odyssee
(The Pokémon odyssee)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, game, smartphone, virtual reality
Summary | The new smartphone craze is the game Pokémon Go which lets users catch virtual Pokémons in their real surroundings. The game requires players to actually move around and search virtually distributed Pokémons. Currently, one can spot many people on the street playing the game by walking down the street staring at their smartphone screens. Most of them also have portable chargers with them because the game uses a lot of battery and people very much want to keep playing for hours at a time.
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Tinder, Snapchat : tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur l'amour virtuel...
(Tinder, Snapchat: everything you ever wanted to know abotu virtual love...)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 4.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | online dating, virtual reality
Summary | Anne-Sophie Letac studies the effectiveness of virtual relationships. Does virtual love allow the same kind of intimacy than physical sex? Is it a real feeling or an illusion? Can people cheat on their partners if they have a virtual relationship? Virtual love can also be seen as a social progress.
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Les nouveaux terrains de jeu des géants du Net
(The new playground of the internet giants)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 22.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, virtual reality
Summary | Google is going to launch "Home", an intelligent assistant that will be able to answer its users' questions, schedule an appointment, or answer emails. Google wants to catch up with Amazon, that released "Echo". Google also presented "Allo", an intelligent messaging app that can answer people's answers. Finally, Google also relies on virtual reality with its new platform called Daydream. Facebook presented something similar with its helmet "Oculus".
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