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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…
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…
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…
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…
Behind The Scenes: A Look At 16 Years Of Advertising Density On Television News
We are tremendously excited to announce today the completion of our analysis of captioning mode information across the totality of…
Vox: Why Some Immigrants Want Fewer Immigrants
A Vox look at immigration. Read The Full Article.
Behind The Scenes: 1.9 Million Hours & 13.8 Billion Words Of Closed Captioning Spanning 17 Years Of Television News
Yesterday we previewed some initial statistics from our work identifying and removing advertisements from closed captioning transcripts across the TV…
Behind The Scenes: Some Initial Archive-Scale Closed Captioning Statistics
Only a portion of the TV News Archive's broadcasts contain broadcaster-provided closed captioning, but by virtue of being largely human-transcribed…
PolitiFact: Early Reports of Four Survivors Show “This DC Plane Crash Story Isn’t Adding Up.”
A PolitiFact look at the plane crash in DC. Read The Full Article.
At-Scale OCR Of Television News: 18.8 Billion Seconds Of Global Television News OCR'd For $71K Vs $47M
We are tremendously excited to announce today that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, we have completed…
Snopes: Misleading Rumor Claims Trump Admin Found 75K-80K 'Missing' Migrant Children
Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about migrant children. Read The Full Article.
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Hedging Effects in Asia-Pacific Countries Amid Sino-US Competition: Insights From Massive Event Data
Facing the pressure of Sino-US strategic competition, countries in the Asia-Pacific region often adopt hedging strategies to minimize risk and…
Behind The Scenes: Identifying Mismatches Between Expected And Real Video File Durations & Single Version Of The Truth (SVOT)
One of the most complex and time-consuming aspects of working with vast historical archives is diagnosing and addressing the myriad…