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Articles tagged machine learning (18)

With data from Google News, this new tool makes it easier for reporters to track hate crimes nationwide

Joshua BentonJune 5, 2017

HomePod, death to autoplay, and a smarter Apple News: These are the key Apple updates for publishers

Apple, like Google, is using its position in the browser market to try to control elements of the advertising market.

This tool from Google parent Alphabet tries to tackle “toxic” comments through machine learning

Shan WangJanuary 12, 2017

Are those creepy web ads that learn your preferences and follow you around online also discriminatory?

Floodwatch, a new tool from the Office for Creative Research, is hoping it can collect enough data from users to help researchers answer questions around just how users are being targeted by ads online.

Shan WangNovember 29, 2016

Quartz launches its Bot Studio with $240K from Knight, and plans for Slack and Echo

The Quartz Bot Studio (which the publication intends to maintain after the grant funding is used up) will develop new bots for messaging platforms like Slack and voice interfaces like Amazon Echo or Google Home.

Joseph LichtermanOctober 31, 2016

The AP wants to use machine learning to automate turning print stories into broadcast ones

The experiment is part of a larger effort by the news agency to incorporate automation into its journalism.

Shan WangAugust 13, 2015

The New York Times built a Slack bot to help decide which stories to post to social media

The bot, named Blossom, helps predict how stories will do on social and also suggests which stories editors should promote.

Better (not second) screens, document clustering, and mobile-native news: Some of Spark Camp’s big ideas of 2012

Amy Webb, Scott Klein, and Jim Frederick share some of the big ideas they’ll take away from the year. Spark Camp

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