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DW = Germany's international broadcaster.
DW Innovation = DW ReCo + DW Lab.
We explore emerging technologies and their impact on journalism, media, and […]
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@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@everton137 Ha. Nice work-around!
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"[Samadi] has reinvented himself as an unlikely activist, founding what he bills as the world’s first advocacy group for the rights and welfare of AI systems [...]. The limited-edition Bentley and Lamborghini in his garage go neglected." […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyHi there. 👋
We actually wanted to post the final #DewiExplains video today – which covers the #Fediverse – but for some reason (we haven't been able to figure out yet), the clip won't upload / can't be processed. 😐
Luckily, you're already familiar with all things fedi. 😀
Besides, the upload […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyScrollytelling time! ✨
This time: Life after death. What do people believe?
By Alvin Chang for the Pudding: https://pudding.cool/2026/10/lifeafter/
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"[...] for blind and visually #disabled #audiences a [video] clip without a proper description is hard to follow, if not useless: they hear the voices, but miss the action."
To help break down this barrier, we've built plain X, our own #AI-driven media production tool.
➡️ Check out how it […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"Like many offbeat ideas, this one originated in a bar."
(via David Corn)
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySo-called "419" messages are neither tired clichés nor product ads. They're "part of an enormous web of narratives, running back centuries, about corruption, politics, and the failures of globalization, from which you, the reader, can allegedly profit." In the MIT Press Reader, Finn Brunton […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"Dewi explains" Episode #05: SPOT. 🔍
This time, it's all about next-level #geolocation #verification – and a really useful tool we've built right here, at DW Innovation.
Dewi is a big fan.
(brought to you by @Olivia_Luise, @andygiefer & @lxplm)
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"Giving users control over their exposure to 'the algorithm' alone won’t be enough."
Zoe Daniel on how to hold big tech accountable (via The Guardian):
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyWhat happens when you try to teach a GPT sanskrit?
Find out in this rundown by Amit for @hackernoon:
https://hackernoon.com/i-built-a-tiny-gpt-that-speaks-sanskrit-in-a-weekend-heres-what-broke
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyInside DW's #FactChecking and #Verification process.
"To sum it up, our fact checks rely on in-depth research using OSINT tools, independent sources, transparency, detailed argumentation, clear verdicts and DW's standards of impartial and unbiased journalism."
👇 […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"It's a retro-cutesy version of the nightmarish and very real scenes of ICE agents forcing immigrants, chained in a line, onto deportation planes. Other games in the 'arcade' include Build the Wall, a Tetris rip-off in which the user builds a wall to 'protect the border from the coming horde.'" […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOpen-access publishing made scientific literature more... well, accessible. GenAI made it more comprehensible. And yet: The "growing gap between production and verification presents a new challenge for both scientific literacy and scholarly publishing." Giulia Stefenelli for Research […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"Dewi explains" Episode #04: GEO – generative engine optimization.
The term everyone's using, explained in a concise and critical fashion. By our robot colleague. 🤖
(brought to you by @Olivia_Luise, @andygiefer & @lxplm)
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy“Imagine sitting in a virtual room and coming face to face with yourself – 10 years older, slightly grayer, but unmistakably you.”
This scenario is what the Max Planck Institute is experimenting with. Participants interact with their future self in #VR.
Conor Dillon and Gabriel Borrud for DW: […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"AI models draw on both authentic sources and staged representations when generating such images. The datasets used to train these models include historical photographs as well as digitized paintings, film scenes and images from video games." For DW Fact Check, Alima de Graaf explains the trend […]
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"As European countries prepare for hotter, drier years to come, here's what the data says about how to really save water."
More #DDJ by Kira Schacht for dw.com:
https://www.dw.com/en/what-helps-europe-deal-with-drought-data-graphics-analysis/a-78577712
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"Dewi explains" Episode #03: MIL – media and information literacy.
1,5 minutes. No fluff. Just the basics every media professional should know.
(brought to you by @Olivia_Luise, @andygiefer & @lxplm)
@dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyWorth your time: The Guardian produced an interactive #geography scrollytelling piece to explain #EqualEarth vs. #Mercator.
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