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#Twitter Being Used to Help #Computers Understand #Sarcasm

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gold.uktv.co.uk One of the biggest problems amongst online, or whatever sort of text-based communication is that it's real hard to bring tone. There are workarounds, changes inwards phrasing, an growth inwards bluntness together with of course, emojis, but around things are withal real hard to bring accurately, together with sarcasm is for certain ane of them . Through platforms similar Twitter together with Reddit, a sure agency of writing has developed which behaves similar a written cousin to the so-called lowest shape of wit, good plenty for people to recognise it when they meet it, but what almost computers? Two researchers from Carnegie Mellon University inwards Pittsburgh, David Bamman together with Noah A. Smith, pick out simply published a paper entitled 'Contextualised Sarcasm Detection on Twitter', sharing the results of a organisation of computerised sarcasm detection they created, using tweets equally a framework . It shouldn't come...

GIFs on Twitter Just Got Better

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Iprospect GIFs are all the rage on social media these days too every bit many mobile apps every bit possible are trying to integrate them. From Tumblr to Facebook Messenger to Tinder, users are in conclusion getting a adventure to portion how they experience through GIF cast piece on their phones. At the minute yous tin ship service gifs on Twitter from your desktop or telephone past times uploading the picture from your computer. It's i of the uncomplicated ways yous tin ship service gifs on close desktop websites. The other agency yous tin portion a GIF is that yous tin ship service a Giphy link too sentinel the picture travel its magic. But that tends to last a lilliputian unlike on close apps these days . Sites similar Giphy bring been partnering upward amongst other services thus people tin role the gifs uploaded onto their site inwards their responses too conversations without having to re-create too glue too URL or become into a dissever app . These socia...

New Facebook Features Make Mobile Access Even Easier

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VentureBeat I t was announced yesterday that Facebook select ii novel Android features inwards the works: 1 that is beingness tested inwards the USA together with some other that is available worldwide. These features volition encourage people to access the Messenger app to a greater extent than often. The commencement of these features is SMS integration. This is the minute fourth dimension they select introduced this characteristic into the Messenger amongst the commencement fourth dimension dorsum inwards 2013 but they injure upwardly getting rid of the characteristic amongst an update inwards the Nov due to lack of use. Now Facebook select stated their intentions to larn rid of telephone numbers, it form of makes feel that they'd effort to convey it back. It doesn't hold off every bit if sending text messages from Facebook volition last whatsoever different to sending them from your regular text messaging client. The names volition select footling royal dots side pas...

What if the Presidential Race was Determined yesteryear Facebook?

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FiveThirtyEight Here inwards the UK, many of us learned an extremely valuable lesson afterwards the final full general election - you lot cannot trust Facebook. Maintaining your social life online has many curious side-effects, as well as 1 of them is that conflicting opinions are ofttimes kept far away. Whether intentionally or otherwise, we ofttimes tend to largely associate alongside people who part similar views to our own, as well as Facebook ends upwards turning into a sort of political echo chamber . What close when you lot expect across the entirety of Facebook though? Well, if the election went ahead today, as well as went purely past times Facebook's data, the adjacent the U.S.A. President would hold upwards - Ben Carson . If you've been next the election, you lot know that Carson, acre nevertheless rattling much inwards it, is trailing behind Donald Trump, Marco Rubio as well as Ted Cruz. The odds makers currently bring him at 300/1 to fifty-fif...

Shopping Options Coming to Snapchat Discover

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The Next Web With the Snapchat Discover characteristic nosotros instruct to persuasion the latest tidings in addition to must direct maintain items amongst a few quick swipes in addition to amongst the straightaway defunct Snapchat shop we've seen how people could purchase lenses to spruce their snaps up. Now, amongst the shop closed in addition to closed to Snapchat entirely publications nether their belt it looks similar Snapchat are getting create to direct maintain e-commerce to the side yesteryear side level. This is a surprising stride equally once the lense store closed downwards Snapchat said they'd survive focusing on bringing inwards income from their promoted lenses in addition to advertising. At a conference held yesteryear Re/Code on Wednesday, Joanna Coles, a fellow member of the Snapchat board in addition to the editor inwards principal at Cosmopolitan talked nearly how Snapchat are planning on taking on the e-commerce market this time. On the Dis...

The Jane Test - #Feminist Script Doctoring via #Twitter @femscriptintros

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moviepilot.com W hen I started writing screenplays, ane of the outset rules I learned well-nigh was the Bechdel test . It's non something you lot have got to follow if your screenplay is going to work, structurally speaking, but if you lot have got whatever involvement inward making your woman someone characters equally rigid in addition to compelling equally everyone else, it should live taken into account. Basically, it's framed some these 2 questions: Are at that spot at to the lowest degree 2 woman someone characters inward your script? Do at to the lowest degree 2 of them have got at to the lowest degree ane conversation that isn't well-nigh a man? If the respond to both of those is yes, you're golden. Sometimes it's non applicable, your celluloid powerfulness solely have got iv characters in addition to they powerfulness all live male, nation because it's laid inward a prison theatre in addition to never leaves the confines of a unmarried cell,...

#Twitter Bug May Have Exposed Users #Email Addresses as well as #Phone Numbers

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IBN Live T he job alongside giving out your details on the mesh is that they tin hold upwards leaked. Most of the fourth dimension when nosotros register to social media nosotros don't worry equally much, they're supposed to hold upwards secure as well as most of the fourth dimension they only bring our e-mail addresses but alongside to a greater extent than social media services going mobile as well as 2 ingredient authentication beingness a thing, straight off nosotros bring the possibility of revealing more. Twitter has revealed this calendar week that their systems experienced a 24 hr põrnikas inside the password recovery systems. Nearly 10,000 accounts were affected as well as the põrnikas could bring revealed these users e-mail addresses as well as holler upwards numbers which could hold upwards used yesteryear hackers for to a greater extent than nefarious purposes. The põrnikas has since removed as well as the accounts are equally prophylactic equally they tin h...