Digital Discourse Database

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'Robot intelligence is dangerous': Expert's warning after Facebook AI 'develop their own language'

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 1.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook's bots Bob and Alice were shut down after they created their own language. The new form of communication was more efficient for Bob and Alice, but in creating this new language, they didn't accomplish their task (i.e. learn how to negotiate like humans). Robotics Professor Kevin Warwick thinks we should be careful and not think this is not dangerous.
Image Description | Photograph of a robot, and black silhouette of a person holding a phone displaying the Facebook app.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), smartphone

The dangerous teenage texting slang that all parents should be aware of

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting, threat, youth
Summary | Young people are always creating new "texting language". Parents should try to keep track of this language evolution, because the online world can be dangerous. A chief parent officer of software program Bark said that she's still surprised that some parents don't know what Netflix and chill’ means -it means sex. Different surveillance softwares help parents to keep an eye their children's texting habits. For instance, Bark is a surveillance software that can recognize when kids are joking and when they are serious.
Image Description | Three photographs of young girls on their smartphones.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone

Nokia 3310 is coming to the UK - but there's a big catch

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 8.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | The Nokia 3310 will arrive in the UK soon. Only some networks such as Vodafone and EE will support it. The phone doesn't have any email app or 4G. Rather the Nokia 3310 has the basic features: calls and text messages.
Image Description | Photographs of colorful Nokia 3310 phones.
Image Tags | cell phone

Apple shows off new emojis coming to your iPhone - including breastfeeding, hijabi and 'mind blown'

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | New Apple emojis will soon be arriving: they include for instance a breastfeeding, hijab, bearded man, face vomiting, and mind blown emojis.
Image Description | Digital images of the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis

Redheads could FINALLY be getting a ginger emoji after long campaign for equality

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | At a meeting next week, Apple will discuss the introduction of a new Ginger emoji. They will see for instance whether they will introduce a new person with red hair or custom hair tags to existing emojis.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone and choosing a ginger emoji, digital images representing various redhead emojis as well as other emojis
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone

Augmented reality children's book brings bedtime stories to life in 3D

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 24.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, virtual reality
Summary | Companies are trying to incorporate augmented reality to their products. For instance, you can now use an augmented reality app with 5 hardback books and transform bedtime stories in 3D.
Image Description | Video explaining how the app works, photograph of a tablet and a book, photograph of an open book, and photograph of a man and a woman
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), tablet

Mother's horror after sick perverts target her six-year-old daughter through online gaming app for young children

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 26.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, game, pornography, privacy, threat
Summary | Using a popular mobile gaming app (Roblox), perverts have been sending kids explicit and inappropriate messages. They've been trying to lure kids and ask them for their addresses. Jemma Casey is the mother of 6-year old Morgan, who was sent indecent messages. Other children have also been targeted.
Image Description | Photograph of a mom and her daughter, screenshots of inappropriate messages, and photograph of a mom and her son.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), text

Miss Belgium 'condoned the N word and used a brown poo emoji' in response to Instagram pic of black man

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, social media
Summary | Romanie Schotte, Miss Belgium 2017, added a poo emoji in response an Instagram post where a black man was a called a n*****. She then said she was not racist because her dad worked in Africa. People started an online campaign to strip her of her title of Miss Belgium. Schotte also said that the poo emoji was supposed to represent a chocolate ice cream.
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Neymar and Rafinha choose emjois to describe their Barcelona teammates - and have far too much fun

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 5.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Football players Neymar and Rafinha took part in a game where they had to pick an emoji to describe the other players of the Catalan team. They had a lot of fun playing the game.
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Theresa May did a Facebook Live Q&A and 10,000 people used the 'angry' emoji

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics
Summary | Theresa May did a Facebook Live Q&A and the most popular reaction people shared was the angry emoji.
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