The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. Through a partnership with Microsoft the found
Fake news and misinformation was a key tactic used by the Russians during the 2016 presidential election to try to sway voters against candidates and sow mistruths and mistrust. Now, with just weeks b
A $27 million fund aimed at applying artificial intelligence to the public interest has announced the first targets of its beneficence: $7.9 million will be split unequally between MIT's Media Lab, Ha
Terrapattern is a visual search engine that, from the moment you first use it, you wonder: Why didn't Google come up with this 10 years ago? Click on a feature on the map — a baseball diamond, a mar
The Knight Foundation is supporting nonprofit organization CODE2040 with $1.2 million, the foundation announced on its blog this morning.
Since launching its pilot program in 2012, CODE2040 has hel
StoryCorps, the non-profit oral history project that has collected more than 100,000 interviews since 2003, is planning to improve its app and launch community programs after receiving a $600,000 gran
Public broadcasters continue to face a lot of pressure as going concerns in the face of bigger overall pressure for the media industry, and like all media companies, they are looking towards a new gen
While Apple continues to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.techmeme.com/120920/p34#a120920p34">weather</a> very bad press (and <a target="_blank" href="http://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3QARhSCIAA2R9U.jpg