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Microsoft tries new key to unlock artificial intelligence
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, texting, word/writing
Summary | Microsoft has been investing a lot into artificial intelligence in order to understand more about natural language processing. Microsoft just bought SwiftKey, a keyboard app that tries to guess which word you'll want to type in your text. The app tries to work like a human brain; it analyzes your writing style and tries to predict the future.
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Facebook's 'reactions': What's to not like?
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 25.2.2016
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook has just released its new reaction buttons, and not everyone is happy about them. When is appropriate to use each "reaction"? The article describes each of the six reaction buttons and their supposed use.
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Closing the generation app
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 5.3.2016
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | digitized education, smartphone, youth
Summary | Diane Howard is 71 and she's taking a new class: an introduction to smartphones for retired people. Christian Magnuson is 16 and he's the teacher. Older people didn't grow up with smartphones, and they would like to know how to use them. For instance, Mary Ellen Saville, 69, would like to know more about the danger zones related to smartphone use. After a 90-minute session, the Christian's students knew more about selfies, text messages, ringtones, and Siri.
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La méthode Suzi LeVine: connectée
(Suzi LeVine's method: connected)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 25.11.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | politics, social media
Summary | The future ex US ambassador in Switzerland used social media a lot during her mandate. Being active on social media allows proximity, intuitivity, and freedom. Suzi LeVine said that social networks are the perfect example of direct democracy.
Image Description | Photograph of Suzi Levine and three other people dressed up for Halloween
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
«Les lettres d'amour sont toujours révolutionnaires»
("Love letters are still revolutionary")
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 3.12.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | gender, texting, threat, word/writing
Summary | Philippe Brenot has been studying people's ways of sharing love for more than thirty years. He noticed some gender differences; for instance, women like to save love letters close to themselves whereas men save theirs in binders. Moreover, women don't write about their lover's body, whereas descriptions of female bodies are omnipresent in men's letters. However, in text messages, women are more likely to be straightforward. Brenot claims that love letters are not disappearing with new technologies. People still send each other love messages and save them.
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Après mourir de rire, on adore rire aux larmes...
(After laughing out loud we love laughing tears...)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 16.1.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The acronyms "lol" and "mdr" are disppearing and are being replaced by emoticons. Moreover, The Oxford Dictionary decided to choose an emoticon as word of year (face with tears of joy emoji).
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Suivre Le Petit Robert sur Twitter, c'est trop lol mdr
(Follow Le Petit Robert on Twitter, it's lol mdr)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | spelling, texting, Twitter
Summary | When people first starting texting, they would use abbreviations such as "lol", "mdr", or "tkt". In order to promote French language and eradicate "text message language", Le Robert Dictionary uses its Twitter account to share jokes related to text message features.
Image Description | Photograph of an open dictionary and screenshots of Tweets.
Image Tags | dictionary, Twitter
Le portable: mangez-le si vous voulez!
(Cell phone: eat it if you want to!)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 19.3.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | We all know that we should turn off our phone if we go see a play, for instance. Some people still pick up their phone in the middle of performances. However, for some shows, the audience can be asked to use their phone (e.g. send a text to choose the casting). Besides that, new technologies are not an integrated part of plays.
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Das neue iMessage strapaziert die Nerven
(The new iMessage gets on my nerves)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, texting, word/writing
Summary | The updated iMessage has tons of new functions. It suggests appropriate emojis to replace words of a message, it now has sticker packages like the Facebook Messenger and allows for text messages to be animated. Users can also send short handwritten Messages - that it if they can still write by hand. All of the updates combined make for a much more obnoxious iMessage service.
Image Description | Images of iPhones using iMessage.
Image Tags | smartphone
Mark Zuckerbergs
(Mark Zuckerberg's)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 13.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Mark Zuckerberg has expressed the goal to design a digital assistant. It should be able to help users simplify some daily tasks. It should, for instance, be able to recognize the face of anyone ringing the doorbell and unlocking it if that person is allowed to enter. This could be particularly useful for the elders. It is however questionable whether Facebook's digital AI assitant can replace human companions or pets.
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