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Microsoft partners with Adobe, BBC and others to battle against disinformation

2 months

Microsoft today announced that it is partnering with Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel and Truepic to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). C2PA is a Joint Development Foundation project formed to address the pre...

The BBC launched a voice assistant based on Microsoft technology

by Surur

11 months

The BBC is launching a voice assistant based on Microsoft’s Speech Recognition Service on Azure. Called Beep Voice Assistant, the Windows 10 software is designed to deal particularly well with the more complex accents across...

Club Penguin Online fan servers closed after discovering appalling illegal activities

by Lewis White

12 months

The fan servers used to revive the classic Club Penguin Online MMO has been killed by Disney after the discovery of illegal and hateful content was made known to the company. Disney filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) ...

BBC debuts Interactive News App on Alexa

by Atiya

2 years

The BBC has proudly announced that they are the first to deliver a customisable, interactive voice-powered news service to Great Britain, on none other but Amazon’s Alexa. The difference between the standard BBC Alexa Skill ...

Phone-based VR is dead as Google stops daydreaming

by Ash

2 years

Phone-based VR may be heading to an early grave, as Google ceases production of its Daydream View virtual reality headsets and the BBC disbands its virtual reality team. Google’s upcoming phones, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, ...

Dr Who: The Edge Of Time is a new VR adventure featuring Jodie Whittaker

by Lewis White

2 years

There’s a new Dr Who game coming this September, and it’s coming to VR! Developed by Maze Theory, a developer consisting of ex-PlayStation and Activision devs, this new VR adventure looks to be an intriguing new Time L...

BBC iPlayer will stop supporting Xbox 360 soon

by Lewis White

2 years

BBC iPlayer will soon be unusable for owners of the Xbox 360. For those who still use the streaming service on the last-generation console, BBC will be withdrawing support for the application on March 27th, 2019. Those who attem...

Microsoft asked to expose Dr Who leaker

by Surur

3 years

Someone inside the BBC recently uploaded a 53-second clip and two still images of Jodie Whittaker, the first female Dr Who, to Microsoft’s OneDrive. Now the BBC has filed an action in Washington requesting Microsoft reveal ...

Microsoft and BBC made an AI-powered iPlayer that you won’t get to use anytime soon

by Mehedi Hassan

4 years

Microsoft and BBC teamed up to build the next-generation of BBC’s iPlayer. The next-generation of iPlayer is supposedly powered by artificial intelligence. Firstly, it would be able to log users into iPlayer with their vo...

Microsoft opens the kimono at their Seattle AI research labs

by Surur

4 years

Some pundits believe that the winners and losers of the AI revolution will also be the overall winners and losers of the next century, if runaway artificial intelligence does not kill us all first of course. So far Google with the...

BBC iPlayer for Windows Phone now warning of 3rd April shutdown

by Surur

4 years

A few weeks ago we reported that the BBC iPlayer and iPlayer Radio app for Windows Phone was shutting down in April 2017. Now the app has started to inform users of the same fact, both in the app listing and in the app itself (scr...

BBC to retire BBC iPlayer for Windows Phone in April 2017

by Surur

4 years

It was a long battle to get UK’s national broadcaster, the BBC, to make an iPlayer app for Windows Phone and now it seems that app will also die a premature death. On their website the BBC has announced that they will be dis...