Web User - UK (2019-10-16)

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Tell us yourfavourite new thingsattwitter.com/webusermagazine 16 - 29 October 2019^7

http://www.spotify.com/uk
Spotif y has releas ed two new playlists that
let you listen once more to yo ur favourite
tunes. On Repeat keeps track of th e songs
you’ve been playing the most over the past
30 days whil e Repeat Rewind goes back
further. In bo th cases, Spotify will mix things
up so that the playlists sound differen t
every ti me you decide to remini sce.

Keepscore of the rugby

bit.ly/rugby 486

Keep up with 2019 Rugby World

Cup – running till 2 November – via

Google News. View the scores of

past games, see upcomingmatches,

watch highlights via YouTube and

check the latest news and tables.

Use Gmail’s new dark mode

mail.google.com

To use Dark Mode in the Andr oid

Gmail app, set your entire device to

the dark theme or open Settings in

Gmail and select Theme,Dark. The

app also darkens on Pixel phones

with Battery Saver enabled. On iOS,

go to Settings, Dark Th eme.

Tour the Palace of Versailles

bit.ly/vers 486

This stun ning tour of th e majestic

French palace includes 18 online

exhibitions and 3D models of rooms

and objects, as well as a SteamVR

app that has reconstru cted 3D

models of objects from 2D images.

bit.ly/deepfakes4 86

Google is concernedabout the

proliferation of ‘deepfakes’ – videos

where AI has

been used to

digi tally swap

or al ter faces

to fool the

viewer. To help

researchers

and developers

create tools

that can

detect face

manipula tion,

Google has releas ed an open-source

data set of 3,000 videos, each one

recorded with the aid of 28 actors and

altered using widely available

deepfake algorithms. You needto fill

out a form to gain access to the

data set – and it’s a hefty download

• but if you reckon you can do some
  goodwork with the images ,
  everything you needis on GitHub.

trollfactory.yle.fi

We’re fully aware

that fake news is

quickly and easily

spread on social

media, but seeing

it happen in the

guise of a game

really rams that

home. Troll

Factory tasks

you with

spreading

content deemed

offensive,

stirrin g up emotions and target ing

people recept ive to certain beliefs.

Since the game uses real posts, it’s all

the more shocking but, by the end,

you’ll have explored the murky worlds

of fake bots, conspiracy theories and

the use of other disinf orma tion tools.

As you do, your pretend shares and

followers will go through the ro of and

you’ll prob ably fe el pr etty uneasy.

witches.is.ed.ac.uk
Between 1563 and 1735, some 4,
people (mostly women) were accused of
being witches in Scotland, and many
were sentenced to death. This map from
the University of Edinburgh shows who
they were and where they lived, along
with their sex, occupation and social
classification. You can also se e the
locations of th eir detention, trial and
death, alongwith their Wikipedia page.

Replay your most listened-to tunes

Download Google

deepfake videos

Watch fake

news spread

View all of Scotland’s witches

We pick the 10 best things you must do on the web this fortnight

NEW VOICE

COMMANDS

Pick anew voice

Openthe iOS Assistantapp

orsay “OK Google” and tap the

compass icon, then Settingsin

Android, beforetapping your

profile pictureand selecting

Assistant, ‘Assistantvoice’.

Get better directions

Siri isnowmoreaccuratewith

directionsinAppleMaps. Rather

thantell you tomake amove by

indicating howfar you are froma

turn, it will use reference points

suchasthe nextset oftraffic lights.

Plan a cancer fundraiser

Gathersomefriends and say,

“Alexa, start the Stand UptoCancer

quiz”tojoin CancerResearchUK

and comedianJoe Lycettfor an

Alexa quiz.For moreinfo, visit

http://www.standuptocancer.org.uk/quiz.