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Using Face Detection And Similarity Matching To Catalog Tucker Carlson Appearances In A Russian TV News Broadcast

Russian television news loves Tucker Carlson, excerpting his show regularly. This makes understanding which clips from his show are aired…

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Running Face Segmentation Over A Russian Television News Broadcast Using "FaceDetect"

One of the most basic questions in visual storytelling is the degree to which narratives are told through people speaking…

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Terrorism, Media Coverage, And Education: Evidence From Al-Shabaab Attacks In Kenya

We relate terrorist attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya to examine how terrorism alters the demand for…

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Behind The Scenes: The Power Of Stream Processing In GCE

Yesterday we looked at a few minutes in the life of a streaming ingest VM running on GCE. Ingest nodes…

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Visual Explorer: Experiments With Machine Vision & Face Detection

Stay tuned for some exciting demonstrations this week on applying machine vision approaches to the Visual Explorer, including a demonstration…

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Behind The Scenes: A Few Minutes In The Life Of A Streaming Ingest VM

GDELT combines extreme globalized scale, a geographically distributed footprint across all of GCP's datacenters worldwide, a combination of all-regions hyperscale…

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Russian Television News Continues To Illustrate Its Invasion With Maps Showing Its Losses

One of the more curious aspects of Russian television news coverage of its invasion of Ukraine is the fact that…

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WashPost: Crime Is surging (In Fox News Coverage)

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines Fox News' coverage of crime. Read The Full Article.

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Re-Democratize The Web

The Supreme Court announced this week that it will hear a pair of landmark cases that will determine the future…

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Today: Deep Learning In Business Forum At MIT Opening Keynote & Panel

Kalev will be giving the opening keynote of the Deep Learning In Business Forum hosted at MIT and curated by…

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The Parallel Universe Of Russian Television News: Russia Under Attack

Russian television news presents a parallel narrative universe around the invasion. In this clip, Russia Today presents footage from "Donetsk…

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This Week: Deep Learning In Business Forum At MIT Panel

Kalev will be speaking on the "Saving Lives on Social: The Case for and State of Deep Learning Powered Content…

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This Week: Deep Learning In Business Forum At MIT Opening Keynote

Kalev will be giving the opening keynote of the Deep Learning In Business Forum hosted at MIT and curated by…

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Russian Media Really Loves Fox News: 26 Minutes Of Fox News Aired Across 5 Channels In A Single Day Last Week

Yesterday we demonstrated using Google's Cloud Vision API to scan the complete airtime of 1TV, NTV, Russia 1, Russia 24…

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Tracking Logos On Russian Television News: Volkswagen

Earlier today we demonstrated applying Google's Cloud Vision API to an entire day of Russian television news broadcasts across five…

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Cataloging All Of The Logos That Appeared On A Day Of Russian TV News Using The Visual Explorer & Google's Cloud Vision API

Last month we demonstrated how Google's Cloud Vision API could be used to rapidly and non-consumptively annotate a Russian television news broadcast using the…

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Russian Media Uses Fox News To Sow Doubt On Nord Stream Sabotage

Russian state media routinely relies on excerpts from Western media outlets to bolster its domestic narrative about its invasion of…

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Russian Media Continues To Blame US & NATO For Battlefield Losses

Russian domestic media continues to blame US and NATO assistance to Ukraine as leading to its battlefield losses, rather than…

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Russian Media Continues To Claim It is "Denazifying" Ukraine

Russian media has continued its claims over the past seven months that it is "denazifying" Ukraine, with a clip earlier…

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Russian Media Continues To Attack Credibility Of American Media

In addition to repurposing stories from American media that advance its narratives, Russian media also regularly attacks the credibility of…

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Russian Media Continues To Repurpose American Media To Advance Its Narratives: Bloomberg Article On RT

Russian media continues to repurpose American and European media coverage to raise questions about the ability of Ukraine and its…

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Visual Explorer: Master List Of ZIP Files For All 1.5 Million Broadcasts: Enabling At-Scale Non-Consumptive Visual Analysis Spanning 50 Countries Over 20 Years

The TV News Visual Explorer now encompasses selections from 98 channels spanning 50 countries and territories in 35 languages and…

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WashPost: Russian TV Is Very Excited About Такер Карлсон's Nord Stream Theory

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines how Russian media is airing Tucker Carlson's claims that the US sabotaged Nord Stream….

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Visual Explorer: Lazy Loading Images On Inventory Page

As continue to make performance enhancements to the Visual Explorer to prepare it for the release of our Russian and…