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Youβre the Boss: new game for CΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs The Dumping Ground
A new game launches for CΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs The Dumping Ground.
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AWS re:Invent: creating iPlayer architecture and nanoservices architecture
Two of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs senior architects discuss the creation of the iPlayer architecture and how the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs website and app handle millions of users.
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Inspiring the next generation
Senior technologist Angela Stevenson describes some of the inspirations for her career choices to mark International Women's Day.
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Programme metadata API: Nitro update
Nitro, introduced in 2014, is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Programme Metadata API, which provides read-only access to information about ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ programmes.
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The making of Our World War One interactive guide
as you approach completion for the software you have to maintain stability, it also means you canβt edit right up to transmission: video is stable and known and has one output device. In software one βquick changeβ to something like a scoring system could break the whole thing...
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Scaling responsible machine learning at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ
How the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's public service principles are being applied to machine learning.
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Teens and Tech: School Report visit to Blue Room
Blue Room is our consumer technology lab where we look at year-on-year trends to determine the impact of new consumer technology on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ and wider broadcasting industry. We were delighted to host a session on tech for a bunch of bright young teens from a school in Hackney.
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Standard Media Player: accessibility
The SMP also acts as a platform on which new features, in the form of plugins, can be added to help users search, discover and save their favourite content as well as customise their audio video experience.
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Designing ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Search
Users frequently enter short and vague terms, which are often misspelt. If we could help users enter more accurate search terms then we would be able to give them much more useful and relevant results.
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer Mobile and Tablet Apps updated
There have been times when as many as four different features were being worked on at the same time all hidden behind βflagsβ in the code that prevented the end user from seeing them.
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News linked data ontology
Ways that we can use linked data to help users discover relevant News stories quickly and easily on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ website.
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CPS Vivo: a new content management system for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ streams
The principle behind Vivo is to build a lightweight responsive single page web application that is built on the cloud to support three key editorial workflows.
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sport App on Chromecast
After the success of the Chromecast integration in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer, we had a opportunity to take all of the multi-stream content from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sport website and provide our users with a new way of viewing this summerβs live sporting events on the big screen
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds app update: CarPlay, Android Auto & live track info
Dan Taylor-Watt explains the latest updates available on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds app.
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Designing ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ internal software tools: iSite and iBroadcast
Software design is complex. Even with a strong voice from the product owner, the detail around interaction patterns and behaviours can be lost-in-translation between Business Analyst, Designer, and Developer.
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Empowerment and disruption - our strategy and architecture teams discuss technology transformation
Highlights from a conference bringing together the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs community of technical strategists and architectural practitioners.
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New ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Research & Development website
We are releasing a beta version of the new ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ R&D website.
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Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs
We operate a HTTP cache known as Radix. Its purpose is to act as a uniform origin for client-facing HTTP distribution systems. With new streaming formats and ever increasing bitrates putting strain on the existing storage capacity, these systems do require upgrades from time to time.
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sport app: "Top Stories" widget
The Top Stories widget will enables users to easily keep up-to-date with the latest sport action. Users can read the top sport headlines by swiping to view their Notification Centre (on iPhone and iPad), or on their homescreen (Android phones and tablets).
