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Youtube community captions removal: Is deaf accessibility lost?

May 24th, 2021

Good subtites and captions are essential for enjoying your newfound K-drama obsession, or getting up to speed on that French comedy series. But for...

Teeny-tiny tough storage

January 17th, 2020

Microsoft and Warner Bros have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the 1978 Superman movie on a piece of quartz glass that is roughly...

Al Jazeera’s step to the cloud

July 25th, 2019

The broadcaster is revamping its newsroom technology – and the cloud is at the centre of it.

On the scene: the tech behind live weather reporting

July 24th, 2019

Whether it’s tornadoes, floods or fires, extreme weather is being tracked in real time by journalists using bonded cellular technology

Filming natural history in New Zealand

July 4th, 2019

New Zealand’s natural history filmmaking goes well beyond the world of ents and oliphaunts. Its nature documentary legacy is world-renowned and award-winning

A Rex named Sue: How Atlantic Productions brought the Mesozoic to life

April 11th, 2019

Atlantic Production is an innovator in natural history documentaries. Its most recent brings the world's biggest Tyrannosaurus rex to life

F is for F* off to fake news

November 12th, 2018

An EU co-funded project has developed tools to check the factuality of user-generated content, social media posts and online video. They’re already being used...

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