Today’s Tech Sightings:
Samsung Develops Emoji-based Chat App for Language Disorders
More often than not, people use emojis for fun when they chat. But for those with language disorders like aphasia, which makes reading, writing and talking difficult, emojis might be just the thing to help facilitate communication. To address the gap, Samsung’s Italian subsidiary came up with a new app called Wemogee. The app can translate more than 140 text sentences into emoji messages.
UN, Ma, Estonia’s e-Residency Join to Support Startups in Developing World
The United Nations will start working with Estonia’s digital residency platform to help startups in developing countries. Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma will serve as advisor to the new initiative, dubbed “e-Trade For All.” Estonia’s e-Residency service gives users who pay a small fee secure digital identities for various payment transactions.
Our Sci-Fi Future: Silly vs. Terrifying
Rapid technological progress and new innovations that look like they came out of the Star Trek TV series science fiction seem to be blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Writer Peter Suciu sifts through the real and the imaginary comparisons between the latest technologies and fictional innovations.
More:
- Russian Hackers Target French Presidential Candidate
- Wikipedia Founder Aims to Fight Fake News With Crowd-funded Website
- Google Takes Steps to Limit Offensive, Inaccurate Search Results
- Facebook Shows Related Articles, Fact Checkers Before Opening Links
- Google’s New Bet to Win India’s Next Billion Users: Speaking Indian Languages
- The 3-D Printer That Could Finally Change Manufacturing
- Swiss Engineering Firm ABB, IBM Team Up on Industrial AI
- Apple Calls in the Rocket Scientists to Explore New Worlds
- Uber Wants to Test Its Network of Flying Taxi Planes By 2020
