Flash Survey: Is night mode your jam?
The dark mode (or night mode) minimizes the white and bright colors of your mobile application interfaces to save your device battery and rest your eyes. This seems to be the new trendy mobile feature: Messenger and even the Android settings menus now offer this option. And you, are you a night mode user, or do you prefer the applications in their original colors? Vincent Quigley Your Community Manager references: https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/how-to/activate-dark-mode-facebook-messenger-0192439/ https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18531550/google-android-q-dark-theme-mode-apps-io-2019
Flash Survey: Techno at the gym?
We know that January is the time when we are filled with guilt or good intentions and we hit the gym again (for a while at least). I'm curious to know: Do you have any technological essentials for getting back into shape? Apps, Connected objects, Wearables, what are your gym buddies? Vincent Quigley Your Community Manager
Animoji Karaoke!
Hard on the heels of its announcements of new phones with unique and revolutionary designs, Apple also announced an offbeat feature on its iPhone X: Animojis! The cute animated avatars follow your facial movements using the phone’s 3D sensors. It didn’t take long for users to start exploiting the capability and post videos combining musical classics with singing Animojis. Apple soon realized the viral potential of the videos and came up with its own version of “Animoji Karaoke”: iPhone X users, have you tried out the feature with your favourite song?You are using AI and machine learning every day!
Artificial intelligence still evokes disaster scenarios worthy of Hollywood among some people. Although the odds that Skynet will take control of machines to overthrow the reign of humans are rather slim, we certainly experience advances in artificial intelligence every day. For example, you use many mobile applications that integrate machine learning on a daily basis. Machine learning is a field of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed (Ref Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning) Here are some examples of mobile applications that use machine learning: With the arrival of personal voice assistants, we can already imagine that artificial intelligence will become more and more present in our daily lives.
