Oct 26, 2021 | Playground, Projects
Being able to generate synthetic media content “at the push of a button” is as fascinating as it is dangerous. On the one hand, there is the significant boost in productivity and creativity. On the other hand, there is the dystopian vision of a technology that fosters disinformation and violates a plethora of rights.
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Sep 29, 2021 | News, Projects
Are you a researcher, an entrepreneur, or a representative of an SME in the AI and media sector? Are you currently working on a new AI solution? Here’s a chance to receive up to €50.000 in funding.
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Sep 23, 2021 | News, Projects
plain X, a novel human language technology (HLT) platform developed by DW Innovation in cooperation with Priberam, is now used to automate the production of subtitles for DW news bulletins screened at Flughafen Frankfurt am Main (FRA), Germany’s biggest airport.
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Sep 8, 2021 | News, Projects
DW Innovation has joined an international consortium of 11 media and tech organisations to make the virtual Europeana library more attractive for all kinds of users.
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Aug 24, 2021 | News, Playground, Projects
There are those who say that when you are occupied with creating and disseminating fact-based reports dealing with current events, that will always be called journalism – no matter what kind of tools you enlist. However, other people argue that there is a significant difference between writing a standard newspaper article and putting out a multilayered, interactive digital story that features text, pictures, videos, audio, and data repositories. While we hope that there continues to be a common denominator, we tend to agree that there are now indeed very different kinds of journalism, some of them driven by technologies that were in their infancy or not available just a decade ago. In the following post, we will take a closer look at three new (sub)categories of digital reporting that are particularly appealing to us and have played a significant role in recent projects: Augmented Reality (AR) Journalism, Drone Journalism, and Journalism of Things (JoT).
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Jun 1, 2021 | Meet us @, News, Projects
DW Innovation project WeVerify will host a two day virtual event dedicated to research, tools, and concepts in the domain of digital content verification.
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