Beyond museum walls: games that let you step into history

What does war look like through the eyes of a child? For those far removed from conflict, it can be hard to imagine. A new narrative adventure game, We Grew Up in War, sets out to answer that question through the stories of Mak, Anna, Valerie and Melisa.  Co-developed by Prague-based studio Charles Games and […]

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An arms race over disinformation: using AI to detect AI

Last winter, as Christmas markets opened across Europe, social media was flooded with alarming videos. Posts claimed that radical Islamists were “invading” Christmas markets.  One clip appeared to show people “disrupting” the opening of the Brussels Christmas market, while a separate photo showed a market surrounded by heavy security. The message was clear: Christian traditions […]

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Art meets AI to reinvent tomorrow’s food systems

New media artist Helena Nikonole is taking the art of sound to an unusual place – a city-based hydroponic plant farm. Together with a group of scientists, she is playing different urban sounds to plants grown in water. The goal is to determine how this affects their growth. According to the European Environment Agency, at […]

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