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Listening (BrEng)
Since I have not particular issues with pronunciation and I (as everyone else) am constantly surrounded by American English, I have done the British English Listening.
The podcast extract talks about facial recognition, starting from a Russian website (Yandex I think), that works as Google, but it doesn’t search for words but for images. In the podcast they upload her selfie and the website searches for other photos of her in the net.
It is from one side pretty cool, but from the other really creepy. This last aspect is underlined from him, he make the examples of “sneaky photos in the tub” or photo taken from an unknown person in a bar.
Moreover, there are a lot of our images in the net right now, cameras in public places are everywhere: football match, concerts, bar with friends and also when you simply are walking down to go home.
Recently (with respect to the the podcast transmission) police in London started to use live cameras because after another terroristic attack there were pressures to improve surveillance. This could really revolution the fight against crime, but it makes also the world closer to the Orwell’s 1984. In fact, facial recognition allows to constantly keep track of our position and activities.
From this perspective the final question (the only I could get despite the amount of times I have listened to) is really on point: Should be we scared?
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Nice job @Lu_Corde
Using the writing code, try and correct what you can and I’ll help you with anything you can’t.
*1 see this post for the differences between ‘as’ and ‘like’
https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-as-and-like/
*2 this sentence should read:
but searches for images instead of words
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I’ll paste and copy my text above and I’ll do the corrections directly on it.
Since I (a) HAVEN’T GOT particular issues with pronunciation and I (as everyone else) am constantly surrounded by American English, I have done the British English Listening.
The podcast extract talks about facial recognition, starting from a Russian website (Yandex I think), that works (b) LIKE Google, but it (c) SEARCHES FOR IMAGES INSTEAD OF WORDS. In the podcast they upload her selfie and the website searches for other photos of her (d) ON the net.
It is (e1) ON one side pretty cool, but (e2) ON the other really creepy. This last aspect is underlined (f) BY him, he (g) MAKES the (h) EXAMPLE of “sneaky photos in the tub” or (i) PHOTOS taken (j) BY an unknown person in a bar.
Moreover, there are a lot of our images (k) ON the net right now, cameras in public places are everywhere: football (l) MATCHES, concerts, (m) BARS with friends and also when you simply are walking down to go home.
Recently ( (n) COMPARED TO the the podcast transmission) police in London (o) HAS STARTED (p) USING live cameras because after another terroristic attack there were pressures to improve surveillance. This could really (q) REVOLUTIONIZE the fight against crime, but it makes also the world closer to Orwell’s 1984. In fact, facial recognition allows (r) GOVERNMENTS AND COMPANIES to constantly keep track of our position and activities.
From this perspective the final question (the only I could get despite the amount of times I have listened to) is really on point: Should be we scared?
I have some doubts about (n) correction. Anyway, thank you for the As and Like difference explanation, I definitely needed it.
This time I have done a lot of avoidable errors, I need to put more care on it and to avoid to write stuff when I am tired 😅
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😂😂😂
Perfect @Lu_Corde 👍
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