A Twitter sarcasm detector… really?
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Earlier this week it was announced that Twitter has entered into talks with Berlin-based audio sharing website SoundCloud in its efforts to add a music service to its offering. SoundCloud is a platform that enables people to upload, record, promote and share their music and other audio files. Twitter’s renewed interest in music-streaming companies comes after Apple Inc acquired Beats, the headphones and music-streaming firm founded by Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, for $3 billion. The Beats deal was seen as Apple’s effort to jumpstart an uneven attempt to make headway in music streaming, the fastest-growing segment of the market, as iTunes sales decline. Watch this space to see whether the much talked about deal comes to fruition.
The US Secret Service wants its own automated system of social media monitoring and is seeking a Twitter sarcasm detector. A spokesman for the service said it currently used the Federal Emergency Management agency’s Twitter analytics but needed its own. The Washington Post quoted Ed Donovan as saying: "The ability to detect sarcasm and false positives is just one of 16 or 18 things we are looking at." The US has been under intense pressure after the Edward Snowden revelations and the leaking of National Security’s Prism scheme, which could access records of individual’s smartphones and internet activity.
Google is making virtual travel that much more fun with its introduction of two new easter eggs which allow users to plan travel by dragon and Loch Ness Monster on Google Maps to certain parts of Wales and Scotland. Those travelling from Snowdon to the Brecon Beacons could arrive in just 21 minutes if travelling by dragon, Game of Thrones style. While those up north, can hop on Nessie to travel between Fort Augustus and Urquhart Castle and beat traditional public transport by four whole minutes! Unfortunately, it’s still the tube for us Londoners at the moment; however, with the rate that technology is going these transport methods could (hopefully) be a reality one day.
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