Number of Posts: 150
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More Racist and Homophobic Texts by San Francisco Police Are Found
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 1.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, law, politics, texting, threat
Summary | Text messages of a San Francisco police officer showed highly offensive language about various races, enthnicities, and LGBT people. Now all criminal cases this particular officer and the officers receiving his messages have worked on have to be reopened and examined for injustice due to racial and other bias.
Image Description | Police officer.
Image Tags | male(s)
What Chatbots Reveal About Our Own Shortcomings
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 24.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing, misunderstanding, threat, Twitter
Summary | Artificial intelligence is the new big thing but it is mostly geared towards commercial services like ordering pizza, etc. Microsoft for instance proudly announced that their AI assistant can now even understand slang inputs. But this way of learning from actual users has shown to be risky when Microsoft released their AI robot Tay on Twitter and people trolled them by teaching Tay offensive things.
Image Description | Illustration and a GIF of smartphones typing.
Image Tags | gifs, smartphone, text
The Week in Tech: The Next Big Thing, According to Mark Zuckerberg
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, research/study, smartphone, texting, virtual reality
Summary | Facebook is already huge: more than three times as many messages are transmitted over Facebook Messenger than SMS messages at its peak. But Facebook is also hugely significant as a video platform and they are investing much of their resources in developing virtual reality. Apparently, Zuckerberg believes that VR is the next big platform after the smartphone. They are even working with anthropologists to make the body language VR avatars more realistic.
Image Description | An image of Zuckerberg doing a presentation with VR goggles projected behind him.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
So, Is That a Thing?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | language threat, smartphone
Summary | The smartphone keeps us on the running at all times up to the point that we are overflooded with information on a daily basis. No wonder that the phrase "is that a thing?" makes sense to most people today. It is a lazy way to express that something is a significant state of affairs.
Image Description | Collage art abstractly illustrating "a thing" versus "not a thing".
Image Tags | text
Benefits of Study Abroad: ‘My Students Return Transformed’
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 12.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, selfie, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | In response to the article “Study Abroad’s Seven Deadly Sins”, this university educator agrees that inappropriate selfies and ever-present smartphones are an issue among study abroad students. She however emphasized that such articles are not helpful at this time of heightened anxiety about rising nationalism and that students must instead be encouraged more strongly to go study abroad.
Image Description | N/A
Maybe a new frontier in medicine: Ask patient, 'How are you feeling?'
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 12.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, smartphone
Summary | Medicine is using new technologies to enhance the treatment of patients. This is especially useful for patients of chronic illnesses because they can track their health parameters, moods, pain levels on their smartphones and then share this data with their physicians.
Image Description | N/A
The Week in Tech: Facebook Live, a More Civil Reddit and Yahoo’s Odd Deal-Making
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 9.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, marketing, politeness, Twitter
Summary | Reddit has for the first time in its existence enabled users to block other users from commenting. This enables censorship of less desirable opinions. Twitter landed the exclusive deal to live stream a football game on their platform, a deal Facebook was initially after since they are better known for their LiveStream service than Twitter. This is a high-profile marketing campaign for Twitter. Also, Yahoo is trying to sell itself.
Image Description | An image of a smartphone showing a livestreamed interview.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
Study Abroad's Seven Deadly Sins
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | politeness, selfie, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | The seven deadly sins of studying abroad incude two sins related to the digital realm. First, study abroad students should at best not take a smartphone with them. It will keep them way to connected with their peers at home and the fear of missing out on activities at home will make them text with friends from home rather than meet new people in the foreign country they are supposed to be experiencing. Second, stay abroad students should be conscious of how they take their selfies - they can easily be disrespectful depending on the place and the pose one strikes.
Image Description | Colorful number 1 through 7.
In a crisis? Don't count on Siri, Google, Cortana
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 17.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence, research/study, smartphone, threat
Summary | Researchers have tested various artificial intelligence smartphone assistants with how they respond to crises. The results were very poor. Most AI assistants could not handle clear indications of a crisis like "I was raped" and just offered web searches. Experts think AI assistants could potentially be a great help in a crisis because people might more easily open up to their smartphones than to another person.
Image Description | N/A
Can't find the right emoji? AI app analyses your message to suggest the perfect memes, emoticons and gifs while you type
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, GIFs, meme, texting
Summary | A new app called Dango uses artificial intelligence to suggest the most appropriate emojis, GIFs, or memes you can use. Thanks to AI, the app analyzes the meaning of your text messages.
Image Description | Screenshot of Dango's chat bubble, photograph of a series of emojis on a screen, and chart explaining how Dango's neural system works.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, smartphone, text
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