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Where is the social internet taking us?
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AI agents: Exploring the potential and the problems
AI agents could save time and effort, but they also raise many big questions - including ones of trust, control, privacy, and sustainability.
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LECCIE - our tool that lets teams to monitor and minimise their cloud footprints.
Orbit is our pilot for a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song by exploring recently played tracks from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Introducing. Read how we made it.
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Organising music for organic discovery
Discover how we organised thousands of tracks to build a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Introducing acts. -
Designing for intentional discovery
Searching for music, imagine that instead of an algorithm, you had a map of the content that you could explore. That's what we set out to design with Orbit. -
Try Orbit for yourself!
Our music discovery service is open for you to find something new! Try it now... -
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More of our work at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ R&D on designing and creating new content experiences.
Latest research reports and papers
Our research
Four articles covering the trials of our in-car recommendation audio streamer curated and introduced by AI.
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What is Sounds Daily?
Our trial of in-car, personalised short & long form audio based on listening history. -
Beyond recommendations
More than just personalisation - AI generated synthetic voices greet drivers and introduce programmes. -
Building our trial
Creating the recommendations and generating the synthetic voices with prompt templates. -
Feedback and conclusions
Audience feedback has been important, helping us shape the trial.
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