Tag: digital media
Facebook translates ‘good morning’ into ‘attack them’, leading to arrest
Palestinian man questioned by Israeli police after embarrassing mistranslation of caption under photo of him leaning against bulldozer. Facebook has apologised after an error in its machine-translation service saw Israeli police arrest a Palestinian man for posting good morning on his social media profile. The man, a construction worker in the West Bank settlement […]
Researchers find that moderate screen use is OK for teens
Parents rejoice! Researchers have found that moderate screen use has no detectable link to well-being and levels of engagement. This means your kids can play on the iPad for a few hours but not all of them. The study, led by psychological scientist Andrew Przybylski of the University of Oxford, examined the habits of 12,000 […]
Do funny recruiting hacks work? Let’s ask a guy who tried
Do recruiting hacks work? Can you get a big company’s attention through wacky (or not so wacky) antics? One man, John Washam, tried and his story is, at the very least, interesting. Washam wrote about his quest to work for Google on his blog, Googley As Heck. He posted his educational milestones on his way […]