Notices by BBC Research & Development (bbcrd@social.bbc)

Do you sometimes struggle to hear what's said on TV? We're running an experiment to find out how wide-spread problems with TV audio are. If you have half an hour, click here to take part:
https://tv-speech-rating.audio.labs.bbc

From BBC Press Office:

New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News.

‘Content credentials’ feature means visitors to the BBC News site will now see a ‘how we verified this’ button underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content.

http://bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/content-credentials-bbc-verify

#C2PA #news #journalism #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation | @BBC_News_Labs

The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA that we've been working on for the past three years.

This shows where media comes from and how it’s been edited - like an audit trail or a history.

Read about how it works and why we're doing this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-03-c2pa-verification-news-journalism-credentials

#C2PA #news #journalism #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation #technology | @BBC_News_Labs

Just a reminder that, in case you don’t already, you can follow our R&D colleagues who work on news innovation - @BBC_News_Labs - and our team creating digital tools for creators to explore: @Connected_Studio

And for more regular updates, our colleagues at @BBCRadio4 and @BBC5Live bring you the best of what’s happening on those radio networks!

We’ve just published an update about this Mastodon trial which has been running for the last 6 months – you can read it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial

We are going to continue our trial here for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start researching ways to publish more BBC content using ActivityPub.

#mastodon #ActivityPub #socialmedia

It's been a great year - and as it comes to an end we're looking back at all the things we've done in 2023!

See some of our big achievements - and as we're always working on the future, get a head start on where things are headed over the next few years...

Watch more and see a summary of our year's highlights: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-12-bbc-research-development-2023-highlight

#2023 #review #technology #media #engineering #development

Hello to our new followers, which, for the one and only time, is everyone...

We'll be verifying our account very soon, but in the meantime, our top level domain should hopefully help confirm our identity, and we've also written about why we're here on Mastodon, what was involved to get here, and the other BBC accounts you can follow.

Say hi, follow and give us a boost!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

hello, world

Hi! 👋 Here's our #introduction.

We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future.

For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting.

We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet – along with all the flexibility and creativity that brings.

5G, AI, next-gen audio, UHD, personal data… we are investigating all these – and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzztGFXYR1Y