Summary:

Heidegger Reads German Tech News is a Twitter bot that uses News API and Google Translate API for CMU students who interested in Germany to catch the latest news in technology field from major German newspapers.

Details:

This bot fetches latest news titles from three German technology newspapers, Gruenderszene, Wired.de and T3n, translates them into English and add a caption for each news title with a quote from the German thinker Martin Heidegger. Then it tweets the news and at people around CMU campus who tweet about “Germany” “Berlin” and “Hamburg” recently.

By making this bot, I want to keep CMU student updated with the trending topics in the technology field in Europe. I also juxtapose the news titles with quotes of the German philosopher Heidegger. It is like how Heidegger would perceive the news. I hope this can make some sort of sense at some points. Perhaps his thinking of “being and time” can give us a different perspective of looking at today’s tech trends and inspire us on our projects.