Television News Visual Explorer: Continual Ongoing ASR Now Live
We are excited to announce today that continual ongoing ASR of the entire TV News Archive is now live! As…
Television News Visual Explorer: ASR Of All Uncaptioned Broadcasts 2001-Present Complete
We are excited today to announce that we have completed machine transcription of every single uncaptioned broadcast in the entire…
Behind The Scenes: Detecting Broadcasts Missing Audio Streams & The Inadvertent Challenges Of Improved Resilience
Our longstanding ASR workflow was based on a submit-once model in which each broadcast needing transcription was submitted a single…
Behind The Scenes: Speeding GCS Inventories By 10X By Dropping Wildcards
A key part of our ASR pipeline involves determining which of the inflight broadcasts has completed processing through GCP Chirp….
CNN: ‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans
Several top Trump administration officials are facing scrutiny for sending detailed operational plans and other likely highly classified information about…
Death Of A Unicorn & Why Search Quality Is The Make-Or-Break Centerpiece Of The AI Era
Last night I went to AMC's early access screening of Death of a Unicorn (WARNING: spoilers below) and had some…
Washington Post: The new boundary of dangerous DEI in the military: Jackie Robinson
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of the DOD and DEI. Read The Full Article.
Behind The Scenes: The Strange Case Of An Unhappy Service Account & The Unique Complexities Of AI Infrastructure
Modern cloud-based computing infrastructure has grown so reliable over the years that even larger-scale workflows rarely encounter error rates sufficiently…
Behind The Scenes: Scaling From Proof Of Concept To Realtime Production To Archive Scale Retrospective
Migrating a new idea from proof of concept one-off experiments powered by a hodgepodge of scripts, notebooks and cobbled-together tools…
Television News Visual Explorer: Thumbnail Montage Generation Now Updating
We're excited to announce that we have completed generating our Visual Explorer 1/4fps thumbnail montages for the October 2024 –…
Talking To GDELT Through Knowledge Graphs
An interesting paper by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL): In this work we study various Retrieval Augmented Regeneration…
Television News Visual Explorer: TTXT Captioning Mode Annotations Now Updating
We're excited to announce that our TTXT captioning mode annotation files are now being continually updated for all captioned broadcasts…
AFP: Fake Marco Rubio audio on Starlink, Ukraine spreads online
A video spreading online purports to show US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowing on CNN to persuade billionaire Elon…
Behind The Scenes: Identifying Failed Recordings: Why Traditional Video Verification Tools Fail
This past December we explored a range of approaches for detecting failed and corrupted television news recordings, from curation metadata…
Politifact: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
As Fox News viewers waited to hear President Donald Trump begin his address to a joint session of Congress, commentator…
MarketWatch: Trump’s first quarter of GDP is looking shaky. His allies are already trying to shoot the messenger.
It’s looking like the first assessment of the economy for President Donald Trump’s second administration is going to look shaky….
Television News Visual Explorer: October 2024 – Present + Ongoing Updates: Phase 1
We're excited to announce that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we have completed initial processing of…
WashPost: The Right-Wing Media Machine Is Hitting A Wall
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Trump. Read The Full Article.
Snopes: Drone Video Truly Shows NYC Protest Against Trump And Musk
Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about a New York City protest. Read The…
Snopes: Unfounded Rumor Claims Pete Hegseth Drank Alcohol During NATO News Conference
Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about Pete Hegseth. Read The Full Article.
Behind The Scenes: Launching A New Autohealing Unified Health Infrastructure
We are excited today to announce the launch of our new automatic monitoring and healing unified health infrastructure that underpins…
Snopes: Fact Check: Trump WH Falsely Claimed USAID Funded 'Transgender Comic Book' In Peru
Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about USAID funding. Read The Full Article.
Snopes: Yes, Trump Rebuked Obama in 2012 for 'Constantly Issuing Executive Orders'
Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about Trump and executive orders. Read The Full…
Behind The Scenes: A First Glimpse At ASR Statistics From 2.5 Million Hours Of Global TV News Spanning 50 Countries & A Quarter Century
Last year we announced the successful completion of Large Speech Model (LSM)-powered ASR over the totality of the uncaptioned Television…