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Wednesday, July 12, 2017
 
Google is funding a new software project that will automate writing local news
Google is funding a new software project that will automate writing local news
Journalists, beware!
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Google is awarding the Press Association, a large British news agency, $805,000 to build software to automate the writing of 30,000 local stories a month.

The money comes from a fund from Google, the Digital News Initiative, that the search giant started with a commitment to invest over $170 million to support digital innovation in newsrooms across Europe.

The Press Assocation received the funding in partnership with Urbs Media, an automation software startup specializing in combing through large open datasets. Together, the Press Assocation and Urbs Media will work on a software project dubbed Radar, which stands for Reporters And Data And Robots.

Radar aims to automate local reporting with large public databases from government agencies or local law enforcement — basically roboticizing the work of reporters. Stories from the data will be penned using Natural Language Generation, which converts information gleaned from the data into words.

The robotic reporters won’t be working alone. The grant includes funds allocated to hire five journalists to identify datasets, as well as curate and edit the news articles generated from Radar. The project also aims to create automated ways to add images and video to robot-made stories.
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The Associated Press, a major U.S. news agency, started using automation software to generate stories about corporate financial quarterly earnings in 2014. The AP now posts thousands of stories every quarter with the help of its robotic reporting tools.
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https://www.recode.net/2017/7/7/15937436/google-news-media-robots-automate-writing-local-news-stories
https://www.recode.net/2017/7/7/15937436/google-news-media-robots-automate-writing-local-news-stories

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A French mathematician has completed the classification of [...] all convex polygons, that tile the plane.
A French mathematician has completed the classification of [...] all convex polygons, that tile the plane.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/pentagon-tiling-proof-solves-century-old-math-problem-20170711/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/pentagon-tiling-proof-solves-century-old-math-problem-20170711/

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