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What’s your buzz? Decoding Jargonaut technobabble

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You must have heard of DevOps, a set of software development practices that brings together software development and information technology...

Social Media

Twitter now supports LOLCAT language. KTHXBYE!

Darren McCarra7 years ago

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Twitter has added lolcat to its list of supported languages, bringing an extra layer of localisation and personalisation to the service that many users will undoubtedly appreciate.

Technology

Most European languages “unlikely to survive in the digital age”

Piers Dillon Scott7 years ago

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Dozens of European languages are threatened by a lack of technological supports, a major international study called Languages in the European Information Society has found

Mobile

Google expands Voice Search availability to 100 million new users

Darren McCarra7 years ago

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Google has added 13 new languages to Voice Search on Android bringing faster searching to potentially 100 million new users.

Translating a comment into English on Le Monde's Facebook page

Social Media

Facebook launches new inline translation service

Darren McCarra8 years ago

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Facebook quietly rolled-out a new inline translation feature last night. The service, which uses Bing Translate, allows users to translate public Facebook Page content, like comments, into their own language.

Languages on the internet infographic via & © TNW

Web

Chinese to overtake English as the dominant language of the internet

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Chinese will overtake English as the dominate language on the internet in the next five years, according to data collated by TNW. TNW says that there are over 400m Chinese language internet users, a number approaching the 530m English language internet users. Along with this already large number Chinese has also seen a 1,277% increase in online use in the past decade.

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

The internet is full of trolls. This is nothing new. However, the tactics used by trolls can go way further than stupid comments on YouTube, and doxxing is an example of this.

If you are not familiar with the term doxxing, it is the publishing of private or identifying information, such as a home or work address, about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent. While this might sound outright illegal, as it stands the law surrounding doxxing is limited and vague.

To get a better understanding of where the US law stands on this issue, what the future of doxxing might look like, and how you should respond if you are a victim, we are joined by Joseph Hoelscher, a criminal defense attorney and Managing Attorney of a Texas law firm, Hoelscher Gebbia Cepeda PLLC, who has worked on multiple doxxing cases in the past, from both sides, as clients who were charged with online harassment and with clients who were the victims of doxxing.

And for our side piece today, we have Computer Says LOL, where we have a stand-up comedy bit from Don McMillan, a technology engineer turned stand up comedian.