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Comparative Media Analysis: First Glimpses At Cross-National Media Comparisons Using Deep Research

Over the last few days we have demonstrated the tremendous potential of applying Gemini's Deep Research capabilities to our daily…

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Comparative Media Analysis: A Deep Research Deep Dive On The Parallel Visions Of America On CNN, MSNOW & Fox News

Earlier today we created an infographic montage depicting the parallel visions of America portrayed on CNN, MSNOW and Fox News…

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Looking Back On A Week Of The Parallel Visions Of America On CNN, MSNOW & Fox News

What would it look like to visualize the parallel visions of America presented on CNN, MSNOW and Fox News, to…

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The Moment Hungary News Channel M1 Halted Its News Broadcast Today

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Internet Archive's Television News Archive is the way in which it captures…

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Legislative Experiments With Gemini: A Week Of Legislative Trends On Ukraine, Estonia & Drones Via Today's Trends On Capitol Hill Reports

Earlier today we explored the tremendous power of applying Gemini to deeply analyze our free daily Today's Trends on Capitol…

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Legislative Experiments With Gemini: Deeply Analyzing A Week Of Today's Trends On Capitol Hill Reports & Making A Map Of Congressional Legislation

Each morning we publish a free daily email newsletter, Today’s Trends on Capitol Hill, that explores how advanced "reasoning" AI…

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Parallel Narratives: July 3rd Through The Eyes Of CNN, MSNOW & Fox News

What would it look like to use Gemini and Nano Banana Pro to produce an infographic conveying the tone and…

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Using Gemini To Prototype The Future Of The Television News Visual Explorer

As we ramp up to relaunch the Television News Explorer and the new Visual Explorer, we've been thinking a lot…

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Gemini For Museums: Visualizing A Collection Vision Document As Images, Movies & Even A Mockup Museum Exhibition

Thus far, our "Gemini for Museums" series has focused on using Gemini as a research tool to assess, catalog and…

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Gemini For Museums: Translating Hentenius's Preface From The 1576 Bevilacqua Folio Bible Printing Of The Louvain Vulgate

Some books become literal embodiments of pivotal historical moments. For the first thousand years after the Bible was translated into…

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Gemini For Museums: Paleographics Gemini-Style & Transcribing Handwritten Notes In A 500-Year-Old Book

Antiquitarian books often contain numerous handwritten annotations in various scripts, inks, handwritings and eras. A 500-year-old book like this stunning…

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Search At Spanner Scale: Briefly Burst Autoscaling To A Petascale Spanner Instance To Absorb A Massive Ingest Surge

Earlier this week we talked about the magic of Spanner's seamless autoscaling. As we've been ramping up loading the historical…

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Gemini For Museums: Transcribing & Translating The Poems Of Holbein's Icones

Hans Holbein the Younger's Icones revolutionized biblical illustration and 16th-century visual storytelling, establishing a universal visual vocabulary for the Bible…

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Using The New Web NGrams Dataset To Find Relevant Coverage

While the transition of our search and API infrastructure to Spanner is still underway, our existing legacy search infrastructure is…

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Inaugural Economic Data Science Society Conference At The Banque de France

Kalev will be speaking in two weeks at the inaugural Economic Data Science Society (EDSS) Conference hosted at the Banque…

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Search At Spanner Scale: Retrieval, Not Search, Is Now The Limiting Factor At Scale

One of the most methodologically interesting aspects of the AI revolution is the way in which it has fundamentally altered…

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Search At Spanner Scale: The Magic Of Autoscaling For Bulk Ingest

One of the more magical aspects of fully managed database platforms like Spanner is their fully seamless and transparent autoscaling….

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Gemini For Museums: Identifying An Unknown Page Tucked Away In A 328-Year-Old Book & Uncovering A Fascinating Historical News Artifact

Among the collection we are examining is a 1698 Amsterdam printing by Chez George Gallet of Louis Moreri's Le Grand Dictionaire…

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Charting Ukraine, Russia, China, Gaza, Drones, Estonia, Inflation & "Experts" On US TV News 2009-Present

How much attention have Ukraine, Russia, China, Gaza, Drones, Estonia, Inflation & "Experts" received over the past decade and a…

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Search At Spanner Scale: Optimizing The TV News Explorer's Timelines By Using A Fixed Count Limit

Spanner's raw hyperscale performance has been on full display as we've been benchmarking and tuning the schema and architectural design…

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Charting The Era Of Trump Across CNN, MSNBC & Fox News 2015-Present

The timeline below charts the seconds of airtime each day in which the word "Trump" appeared somewhere in the onscreen…

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Charting The Density Of "Live" News Coverage On CNN, MSNBC & Fox News 2009-Present

When American television news channels cover live breaking events, they typically display the word "LIVE" somewhere in the onscreen text…

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How Much Airtime Is The Reflecting Pool Getting On TV News?

The timeline below tracks the total seconds of airtime across CNN, MSNOW and Fox News from May 1 to midday…

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Turning GDELT & My Resume Into Hollywood Blockbuster Trailers Using Veo

What would it look like to turn the GDELT Project into a Hollywood blockbuster movie trailer using Veo? How about…