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The Emoji Bible has arrived ... and (face with halo emoji) has yet to declare it (OK hand sign emoji)
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 30.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | The Bible has been translated into emoji. It includes 3,300 pages and is intended for millennials.
Image Description | Screenshots of tweets from @BibleEmoji
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Sign of the times: London company advertises for 'emoji translator'
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | A translation company in London is looking for an emoji translator to help deal with issues related to the world's fastest-growing language. The field of emoji translation is booming and nowadays, softwares dominate the field. However, softwares can't recognize cultural differences in emoji usage.
Image Description | Digital image representing 8 emojis
Image Tags | emojis
London company seeks emoji translator
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | A company based in London is looking for an emoji translator. The employee would need to help explain misunderstandings related to emojis, the fastest-growing language. Today, softwares are in charge of emoji translations, but they don't deal with cultural differences very well. This is why a "human touch" is necessary.
Image Description | N/A
Children's stories translated into emojis - can you guess which classic is which?
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | Emojis are becoming more and more popular. In order to see if people could decipher the emoji language, Sarah Walen said that "Book People" translated children's stories in emojis.
Image Description | N/A
Facebook must show it can follow its own rules on child safety
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is struggling to comply to its own rules which prohibit all nudity from the platform. Their artificial intelligence software designed to take down all images of nudity works unreliably. Although Facebook is one of the safest spaces online, there are still problems.
Image Description | Reuters image of a lot of Facebook logos through a magnifying glass.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo
Fighting fake news: societies using technology to search for truth
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 0.0.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, fake news, politics, social media, threat
Summary | Many countries are trying to combat fake news and urging Facebook to find ways of combatting fake news. They influence elections by deceiving people and that is a great problem. It is nearly impossible to identify fake news with a program, it takes a human. Facebook is now allowing users to flag suspicious content, which is then reviewed and if deemed fake, labeled as such and displayed with a lower priority. Fake news are not taken off of Facebook because that would be censorship.
Image Description | Shutterstock images of protesters against fake news.
Image Tags | female(s), text
Learn to speak EMOJI: Translator app turns everything you say into popular symbols
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 17.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation, youth
Summary | Words do not always express the exact feeling people want to transmit, so emojis can help. Thanks to a new app (SpeakEmoji), you can now translate what you want to say (voice) into emojis. Emojis are a new universal language, so this new app is suited for our digital era. The app was first designed to help parents communicate through emojis. In 2015, an emoji was chosen as word of the year because it represented the mood and preocuppations of the year.
Image Description | Screenshots of the SpeakEmoji app, video of the new translator app, and video of how to use emojis in social media
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), social media
And on the second day, God made the smiley face and the thumbs up: New translation of the Bible is written in EMOJI for millennials
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 27.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | A translation of the Bible written in emojis is now available. The translator said that it makes the Bible more "approachable"; emojis can express emotions in a visual way and in a universal way.
Image Description | Excerpts from the Bible emoji, and screenshot of the online Bible emoji translator.
Image Tags | emojis
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