Number of Posts: 70
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Alerte sur les dangers des radiofréquences pour les enfants
(Radio frequency hazards for children)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 9.7.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood
Summary | Overexposure to new technologies and radio frequency can have a serious impact on children's health. Children are constantly exposed to tablets, smarthpones, toys, and baby monitors. However, more research is needed to prove the effects of radiofrequency on children's health.
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Les objets connectés bientôt plus nombreux que les mobiles
(Connected objects will soon outnumber mobile phones)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 1.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | research/study, smartphone
Summary | According to Ericsson, in two years there will be more connected objects than smartphones in the whole world. Today, connected objects are cheaper, and more and more apps are being created.
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Millennials: la pub doit émouvoir, divertir, informer et être multisupports
(Millennials: ads should move, entertain, inform, and be multichannel)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 3.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | marketing, TV, youth
Summary | To reach millennials, advertisers need to adapt their content and their media. Young people still watch TV, but they can use 2-3 screens at the same time; therefore, advertisers need to adapt their strategy and speak young people's code and language.
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Google veut comprendre l'accent écossais
(Google wants to understand the Scottish accent)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.8.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google recruited Reddit users to analyze their language and improve the voice recognition tool Google Now. Virtual assistants such as Siri, Alexa, or Cortana often fail to recognize different English accents. The technology (machine learning) listens to a language until it can understand it well. Google wants to focus on Irish and Scottish accents because its virtual assistants seem to have trouble understanding them.
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D'où vient l'acronyme Osef ?
(Where does the acronym Osef come from?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | hashtags, texting, Twitter, word/writing, youth
Summary | The term "osef" seems to be very popular among teenagers nowadays. It means "on s'en fout" (we don't care). The expression was born on Twitter and was preceded by a hashtag or mot-dièse (the English term won).
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À la télévision, les programmes sous influence grandissante du numérique
(On television, programs are under the influence of the digital)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, social media, TV, youth
Summary | The TV industry seems to be lacking inspiration. As a result, they are trying to find new ways to create new formats based on what can be found online. For instance, CBS introduced Candy Crush, a one-hour show inspired from the game. Moreover, emojis will also make an appearance on TV. Indeed, in "The Great Emoji Challenge", participants will have to decode emoji messages in order to win money. The idea is to draw millenials' attention.
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La star de YouTube se rebelle contre Google
(YouTube star rebels against Google)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 6.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Google, threat, YouTube
Summary | PewDiePie, who has more than 50 million followers, is threatening to close his YouTube account. He has noticed that the number of his followers is decreasing for no reason. PewDiePie is not the only one who has been having issues with YouTube.
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Peut-on repérer une personne dépressive grâce à ses photos Instagram?
(Can you spot a depressed person through his/her Instagram photos?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 24.8.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Instagram, research/study
Summary | Researchers have created an agorithm that is able to spot depressed people thanks to their Instagram photos. They studied 500 Amazon Mechanical Turk employees. The results show that depressed people's photos tend to be darker than the average Instagram photos, and they also tend to focus on blue and grey. Thanks to the study, researchers hope to be able to prevent depression in the future.
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Apple accélère dans l'intelligence artificielle
(Apple is moving faster in the field of artificial intelligence)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, privacy, research/study
Summary | Apple has a new research group that will be in charge of AI. With Siri, Apple was in fact one of the first companies to introduce chatbots. Nowadays, there are many personal assistants that are far better than Siri (e.g. Alexa and Google Assistant). Unlike Google or Facebook, Apple does not base its research and activities on people's personal information. However, to be efficient in the field of AI, a company needs a lot of personal data. This is why Facebook and Google are at the forefront of these technologies.
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Selfie géant d'Hillary Clinton: le simulacre de la politique
(Hillary Clinton's giant selfie: the sham of politics)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 26.9.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | politics, selfie, threat
Summary | The philosopher Bertrand Vergely talks about Hillary Clinton's giant selfie and claims that it reflects a political cynicism. It also reveals the perversity of politics, communication, and images. When Hillary decided to take the selfie, she was not really playing. In fact, she knew exactly what she was doing. She knew that the audience wanted to have a selfie with her, so she gave them what they wanted. It was a smart move. However, it was also a little dangerous because she played with her ego. This kind of manipulation is called cynicism.
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