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Startup Uses AI to Prevent Hate Speech and Spam Online

The Berlin-based startup Conversario uses artificial intelligence to protect and understand digital communities. Their tools limit hate speech and spam, allowing more room for real dialogue to happen online.

Bavarian Accelerator Supports Media Startups

Based in Munich, Media Lab Bayern promotes digital innovation in the media industry. It is at once an early-stage startup incubator, a co-working space and an innovation hub aimed at journalists and IT professionals.

Like Tinder, but for Politics

ZEIT ONLINE Initiative Brings Together Liberals and Conservatives

The initiative matches people of vastly different political persuasions and encourages them to get together to have a civil conversation.

German Science Institutions Sign Revolutionary Open-Access Deal

A consortium of German science institutions has signed a deal revolutionizing the way scientific research is communicated.

DFG Honors 10 Scientists

Leibniz Prize Winners Announced

The winners of Germany’s most prestigious scientific research award covering all fields of science have been announced. Awards will be given out at a ceremony in Berlin on March 13, 2019.

German Academies of Science Defend Privacy in the Digital Age

The German Academy of Science and Engineering, the National  Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Union of German Academies of Sciences published a joint statement arguing that those who want to take advantage of digitalization do not necessarily have to accept its disadvantages. In fact, technology might be able to help us protect our privacy!

5 German Ideas for Alternative Energy

According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. In the case of electrical power, however, this transformation comes at a cost.