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Pokemon Go: What is it, how to play it and everything you need to know
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 26.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | The augmented reality game Pokemon Go is now available in the UK. Users can catch Pokemons in real life thanks to their smartphone. Pokemon Go is a popular game around the world, but playing the game can be dangerous; there have been robberies, shootings, and car accidents because of the game.
Image Description | Screenshot of Charlotte Nice's tweet, two videos about the game, two photographs of hands holding a smartphone displaying the game Pokemon Go, four photographs about accidents and injuries linked to the game.
Image Tags | game, hand(s), smartphone, Twitter
What are AirPods and why has Apple dropped the headphone jack?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Apple announced that the new iPhone 7 would not have any headphone jack; instead, they will introduce wireless headphones (AirPods). The future is wireless, and the goal is to make headphones smarter.
Image Description | Two videos introducing the headphones, photographs of the headphones, screenshot of Lance Ulanoff's tweet about the headphones, photograph of a man wearing an AirPod, screenshot of James Titcomb's tweet, photograph of a hand holding the AirPods and another hand taking a picture of the AirPods with an iPhone.
Image Tags | hand(s), headphones, male(s), smartphone
Has tech ruined our relationship with time?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 29.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free
Summary | When the Oxford University Press revealed a list of the most commonly used nouns, number one was "time". Our lives seem to be dominated by (digital) clocks. If you take a look at available smartphone apps, you'll notice that they are designed to save us time. The author of the article wrote a book about people's obssesion with time. It is now almost impossible to experience time independently of technology.
Image Description | Photograph of an arm and a smart watch, and people gathered under the Waterloo station clock
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s)
Facebook will beam the web to Africa - a vital first step in helping people connect
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, smartphone, threat
Summary | Facebook, together with the French company Eutelsat, will put a satellite in orbit in order to give the internet to millions of sub-Saharan Africans. However, when you introduce social media into a poor country with low literacy, a country that does not know anything about free speech and freedom of expression, the consequences can be bad; it can lead to an explosion of hate speech (e.g. Myanmar, Lesbos). Therefore, connection alone is not the right solution.
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Rise of the defrienders: Nine in ten young people have been 'ghosted' by their friend or partner
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, social media, texting, youth
Summary | “Ghosting” or defriending someone by text or social media is a new phenomenon. It seems that young people prefer using their smartphones and laptops to end relationships instead of doing it face-to-face. The term "ghosting" came from Katy Perry's song "Ghost" where she talks about ex-husband Russell Brand who had not spoken to her after demanding a divorce via text. Thanks to social media and the fact that you can hide behind your phone it is now easier to defriend people by ghosting.
Image Description | Photographs of two hands holding a smartphone, Russell Brand and Katy Perry, a man using his phone and looking at it, a hand holding a smartphone displaying the Facebook icon.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
New ideas for treating concussions
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 12.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, smartphone, texting
Summary | Doctors are looking into new ways to treat concussions and one of those ways is to stop texting or using a smartphone. Concussion-related headaches are often visually triggered so staring at a screen for hours like many people routinely do does not help heal from a concussion.
Image Description | Hands of a woman placing a football helmet on a boy's head.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s)
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.
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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.
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