The BBC wants to leverage machine learning to improve its online services and the programmes it commissions every year. Today, the broadcaster announced a five-year research partnership with eight ...

As the twilight of an early autumn evening gave way to the incandescent glow of London’s historic Royal Albert Hall, fans of Florence + The Machine gathered within its storied walls in eager ...

The BBC has announced a bumper Proms season for 2024, with 90 concerts that mix traditional repertoire with concerts by Florence + The Machine, Sam Smith and Bristol's Paraorchestra. After a lean ...

The BBC has announced that it's piloting "virtual voiceover" technology, which will be used to automatically translate TV reports into Japanese. In early 2016, the broadcaster's Russian service will ...

Russia isn't alone in its campaign to spread fake news. Iran was one of the early adopters in the world of made-up current affairs designed to spread disinformation and discredit legitimate media. One ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today, BBC’s R&D team announced a five-year initiative to use machine learning to work out what audiences want to ...

Mr Cobbler showed off his new electronic teaching machine, or as the BBC reporter put it "an inhuman, mechanical monster". BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 10 May 1965. 1965: Electronic teaching ...

These two archival releases of Soft Machine in varying lineups reveal a seminal band in flux and act as a prism into the development of jazz-influenced rock in the '70s. After four albums, Soft ...

IT TOOK decades for Jimmy Savile to become a beloved national institution, but only a few weeks for his ghost to trash another one. On October 3rd a documentary screened on ITV, a commercial ...

Continuing to deliver standout collaborations, BBC ICECREAM has now teamed up with Brooklyn Machine Works on a graphic-rich capsule. Founded in 1997 by Joe Avedisian and Chris “Doc” Bourdreaux, BKMW ...

Released briefly on Windsong in the mid-'90s before going out of print and commanding large sums on eBay, the BBC recording of Soft Machine's March 11, 1971 Paris Theatre show in London, England was a ...