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SmileTracker, l'application qui épie vos émotions
(SmileTracker, the app that is spying on your emotions)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 27.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | SmileTracker is an app that can detect smiles thanks to a face recognition system. Users can gather all their pictures in one "smile gallery" and then share them on the SmileTracker website or Facebook. If people see those pictures, it can trigger positive emotions and a general well-being. This SmileTracker app is one of MIT's experiments. Researchers at MIT want to create machines capable of recognizing and measuring human emotions.
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Darauf können sich auch alte iPhone-Nutzer jetzt freuen
(This is what even old iPhone users can look forward to)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 19.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, smartphone, texting, translation, WhatsApp
Summary | The new iPhone operational system has a couple of new updates. There will be a new control unit and user surface making the iPhone increasingly similar to a full Mac. The in-house messenger iMessage has a lot of new emojis and stickers and allows the users to be more creative with their texting. It is however still no threat to WhatsApp because only Apple users can use iMessage. Siri no also speaks a bunch of new languages: she will be able to translate English into German, Chinese, Spanish, French or Italian.
Image Description | A screenshot of iOS 11.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Die wichtigsten Features des iPhone X im Überblick
(An overview of the most important features of the iPhone X )
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, privacy, smartphone
Summary | The new iPhone X has a new safety feature. Instead of the finger print, it scans the face of the user to unlock or transfer payments on Apple Pay. The face scanner is 3D so that it cannot be tricket with a photograph of the owner. It is artificially intelligent and can recognize the device owner despite different hairstyles, beards, glasses, and so on. The face scanner can also find an emoji which mimicks the users facial expression.
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App that could help couples head off a blazing row
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | A new app will send you an alert when a fight with your partner is about to happen. The researchers who created the app hope the technology can save relationships. The app uses algorithms that analyze the language and physiological characteristics of fights. For the algorithm to work correctly, couples had to wear a wristband sensor that measured the electricity through the skin. It also measured body temperature and heart rate.
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AI in your earphones? The brave new world of hearables
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | "Hearables" are earbuds/headphones that work with artificial intelligence. They can translate foreign languages, be personal assistants, or improve your hearing. In the future, we might even be able to get rid of our smartphones because earbuds will have anything we want.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman wearing earbuds.
Image Tags | headphones
Samsung launches Bixby voice assistant in the UK to rival Siri and Alexa
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 22.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Samsung unveiled a new voice assistant called Bixby, which is available for Galaxy S8 users. Users can use the voice command in order to perform tasks that would require them to use applications and/or clicks. They can for instance say "good night" in order to turn on an alarm. Thanks to Bixby, Samsung users can also take selfies and post pictures on social media.
Image Description | Photograph of a man standing in front of a giant smartphone on a screen, slideshow explaining how Bixby works, and one of Samsung Mobile's tweets.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone, Twitter
A robot Rembrandt? I'll eat my beret!
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Google’s Creative Lab just unveiled a new tool that can transform a photo into a drawing. Robots won't be able to master every human skill, and portraiture is one of those skills robots will never be able to replicate. Robots can't do art; they are just following what they have been programmed to do.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone next to a series of portraits, and video about the new tool.
Image Tags | smartphone
'It was so simple and easy': the nursing home improving care with tech
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 26.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | A nursing home in London developed an app to faciliate administrative work. Many social organisations still use more traditional ways of recording data; for instance, they take notes by hand about their residents. But this can be time consuming. The London-based nursing home called Nightingale worked with a team to create a smartphone app that would facilitate workers and nurses' work. Thanks to the app, care workers can now enter patient information digitally. The app uses algorithms and language recognition.
Image Description | Photograph of a nurse using a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
«Achtung, unterschätzen wir die Senioren nicht»
("Attention, let's not underestimate the elderly")
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 2.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone, threat
Summary | More and more rural post offices are being closed due to restructuring. Online post office services should pick up the slack but it is questionable whether elderly people will be able to adapt to virtual post offices with chatbots. The chief of the Swiss Post, Susanne Ruoff, urges us not to underestimate the elderly. Many of them are online with smartphones and computers nowadays.
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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
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