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Science Technology

Ex-CERN scientist on leveraging AI to accelerate language learning (Brains Byte Back podcast)

Sam Brake Guia5 months ago

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Being able to speak and understand a foreign language is a lot like having a superpower. It gives you an...

Business Technology

What’s your buzz? Decoding Jargonaut technobabble

Navanwita Sachdev2 years ago

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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 McCarra8 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 Scott8 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 McCarra8 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 McCarra9 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 Scott10 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

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.

Social media has become such a deeply entrenched part of our lives, that abandoning it all together seems like an almost impossible task for many of us. Therefore, in this episode, we will explore how we can have a better and healthier relationship with social media.

To do this we are joined by Scott Gazzoli, host of Causing The Effect, a podcast exploring how to effectively connect the mind and body through psychology and physiology.

On the show, Gazzoli discusses what motivated him to start his podcast, why he is concerned about social media influencers, and how social media is impacting our ability to delay gratification.

We also discuss how Youtube’s homepage is designed to keep us watching content, often promoting extreme videos regardless of whether or not this information is good or bad.

In addition to the above, we also pick apart the idea that every generation is fearful of something new, negatively impacting a younger generation, such as video games or rap/heavy metal music. In light of this, Gazzoli shares why he believes that social media is different from the fears of previous generations.