Digital Discourse Database

Number of Posts: 109
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Tech may rule, but the human backlash is coming

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | Movies have a special relationship with new media: they hate it. Romcoms prefer showing people who fall in love while meeting face-to-face rather than on dating apps, sci-fi movies show apocalyptic scenes representing the future, and movies such as "Her" or "Ex Machina" show how artificial intelligence can lead to downfall. Why is the movie industry tech-sceptic? Maybe because the internet is ruining the movie business.
Image Description | Screenshot of a movie scene with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

Sick perverts ask schoolgirls to indecently expose themselves during lessons on live video app

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, pornography, privacy, school, smartphone, threat, video communication
Summary | Perverts have asked schoolgirls to expose themselves via live Periscope videos during lessons. While they were using the app, the girls received a lot of sexual comments. Periscope is an app that is also used by businesses and media organisations to stream events and conferences live. Viewers can then comment and ask questions live; those comments are displayed on screen and everyone can see them.
Image Description | Photograph of a student's hands holding a phone under a desk, photograph of an empty classroom,
Image Tags | cell phone, male(s), school

Google just launched the ultimate keyboard app for iPhone with a built-in search bar

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, smartphone
Summary | Google launched a new keyboard app with a built-in search bar that allows you to search on your iPhone without a browser.
Image Description | Video explaining how the new app works, screenshot of a smartphone screen displaying the built-in search bar, three smartphone screens displaying the app
Image Tags | smartphone, text

Smartphone users beware - your battery could be leaking details about you online

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, research/study, smartphone, threat
Summary | According to a research, your phone battery level could be used to track your online activity.
Image Description | Image of a low battery next to a warning sign, iPhone displaying a low battery, hand holding a smartphone displaying a game
Image Tags | game, hand(s), smartphone

Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?

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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

Women who use a smart phone instead of the pill

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Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 2.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Bethanie Alys is 20 years old, and she has a four-month-old. She became pregnant because she followed what her fertility app said. Fertility apps are supposed to track a woman's changes during her menstrual cycle and can tell when she can conceive and when she is not fertile and can have unprotected sex.
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Choose daddy app that lets women pick a spern donor

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Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 26.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Women can now download an app and browse potential sperm donors to have a child. They can choose between different options such as height, ethnicity, education, and hair color.
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Forget India - Lenovo is betting on Africa as next big smartphone market

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 27.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Eric Cador, president of Lenovo in Europe, Middle East and Africa, wants to reach Africa. Africa can be the next great market and smartphone superpower. By 2020, around 70 per cent of Africans will be using smartphones. Lenovo is the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman taking a picture of someone with a smartphone, photograph of Eric Cador, chart representing 2015 smartphone vendor market share, photograph of a laptop
Image Tags | chart, computer/laptop, female(s), male(s), smartphone

Stuck on your GCSE and A Level revision? This app can help

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | school, smartphone
Summary | Gojimo is a revision app for GCSE and A level revisions. It includes more than 180,000 quizzes, and it can also connect students with tutors.
Image Description | Photograph of a classroom/exam room full of students, three iPhones displaying some of Gojimo's features, portrait of the founder of Gojimo, photograph of an iPhone screen displaying the app.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone

Google boss on life beyond the smartphone and how the company will pay more tax in the UK

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 1.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, smartphone
Summary | The author of the article first describes Google headquarters (objects, atmosphere, workers etc.). She then talks about Sundar Pichai (Google's chief executive). Pichai wants people to see Google as a full-on assistant that can help them accomplish all sorts of tasks. In the future, Pichai wants Google to target homes and cars. The future is also linked to artificial intelligence. They want to work with new techniques that relie on neural networks in order to allow computers to teach themselves. Pichai talks about the future: using AI in medicine, privacy issures, personal assistants, Google search option, Google translate, and other services.
Image Description | Four photographs of Sundar Pichai, Google HQ, man holding Google Home and speaking, driveless car, video about the history of Google
Image Tags | Google, male(s)

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