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Game, set... interact!
Revealing the moments that shape Wimbledon - a new interactive layer showing serve speeds, winners, dominance graphs, match quizzes and more.
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Try for yourself!
Watch Wimbledon 2026, live with interactive stats, graphs, serve speeds, quizzes and more...
The story behind the experience
The R&D team developing this interactive experience explain how it works.
More about SIGNALS
Our trial is part of SIGNALS - read about how we're rethinking how audiences interact with live TV.
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PHARE: rethinking how musicians create, own and earn
Bringing together technology, talent, and our partners to explore solutions to some of the biggest problems faced by aspiring musical artists.
Building deepfake detection people can trust
Competing in the UK Government's 2026 Deepfake Detection Challenge, and why our journalism-first approach adds public value.
DMF & MXL: from sharing media to orchestrating software based live production
The Media eXchange Layer project and a new joint task force are helping the EBU Dynamic Media Facility become reality - find out why it's so important.
The latest articles on our AI driven research - from transcription and translation to computer vision and natural language processing.
Deepfake detection for journalism
How we’re tackling manipulated media - by developing in-house tools to detect deepfakes and support trustworthy journalism.
On our RADAR: AI-manipulated content
Our research into tools that can detect AI-manipulated images for safer, more reliable reporting.
Safe, smart stories: AI for production, privacy & archive exploration
From ethical anonymisation to reimagining production - our AI tools are reshaping how stories are told, safely and creatively.
Accuracy, trust, and style: time saving AI fine-tuning
From style checks to live reporting, our AI tools are helping to transforming journalism - helping us be quick and accurate - while keeping editorial control human.
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