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NIKKEI, Visual Journalist video and photo analysis, photography, and 3D reconstruction.
New: Visual Investigation Is North Korea's 'princess' walking a path toward succession?
asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a young daughter. Using AI facial recognition technology, Nikkei analyzed 14,115 hours of Korean Central Television footage.
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New: Visual Investigation Inside North Korea's bizzare beach resort 🇰🇵 A symbol of the current honeymoon with Russia
vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics...
The Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone, a sprawling seaside resort on North Korea's eastern seaboard, opened its doors this summer.
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Interactive Journalism
4 months ago
New on Bloomberg : “What Is the World Going to Do About Iran’s Uranium?”
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What Is the World Going to Do About Iran’s Uranium?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-us-iran-nuclear-strategy/
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
4 months ago
We just added 100 more Texas agencies using Flock Safety automated license plate readers to the Atlas of Surveillance. As police tech spreads, you can count on EFF to track it and fight for your rights.
www.atlasofsurveillance.org/
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Aric Toler
4 months ago
On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
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A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/world/middleeast/gaza-satellite-aid-truck-famine.html?smid=url-share
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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel
4 months ago
Magnitude 8.7
#earthquake
in Kamchatka, following a M7.4 last week - may be largest earthquake since 2011, 8th largest on record globally,
#tsunami
warning in place for US west coast and Canada - the historic 1952 M9 closely caused a destructive tsunami across the Pacific
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NEW: "Money Machine" in Japanese FT and Nikkei have released the Japanese version of the Apple Vision Pro app Money Machine, with Nikkei engineers leading the localization. Check it out!
@data.ft.com
@theboysmithy.ft.com
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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経済の流れ3Dで体感 日経・FTがアプリ、Apple Vision Pro向け - 日本経済新聞
日本経済新聞社と英フィナンシャル・タイムズ(FT)は28日、米アップルのゴーグル型端末「Vision Pro(ビジョンプロ)」向けアプリ「Money Machine(マネーマシン)」の日本語版をリリースしました。ユーザーは3D(3次元)空間内で、経済のお金の流れを体感できます。大阪・関西万博の英国パビリオンで8、9日に開催されたイベントで公開されました。同アプリの英語版を2024年9月にリリー
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCA201UH0Q5A620C2000000/
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NEW: Visual Investigation Proliferating Scam Centers in Myanmar: “Prisons” Along the Border Show Three Distinctive Features
vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics...
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5 months ago
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Scott Clement
5 months ago
In which Republican support for bombing Iran jumped 30 points in a week
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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【NEW】 Fordow, Iran: Enrichment Facility May Lie Beneath Strike According to the U.S. military, a B-2 stealth bomber departed Whiteman Air Force Base on the morning of June 21 (ET) and dropped a bunker buster on the Fordow facility via a transatlantic route.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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【NEW】 Fordow, Iran: Enrichment Facility May Lie Beneath Strike The Fordow uranium facility is believed to lie 80–90 meters underground. A GBU-57 bunker buster, capable of penetrating up to 200 feet, was likely used to target it.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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【NEW】 Fordow, Iran: Possible Uranium Enrichment Facility Beneath Impact Site Satellite and diagram analysis suggests centrifuges may lie beneath the Fordow impact crater.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
5 months ago
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Jacob Bogle
5 months ago
As with Fordow, the search for ventilation shafts and other small external structures are critical to helping understand the scale and purpose of underground facilities, such as those in North Korea. From AccessDPRK, NK's Largest Underground Facilities
mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-...
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The Largest Underground Sites in North Korea
Kim Jong-un visiting the Kanggye Tractor Plant. Image: Rodong Sinmun, June 2013. There are over 2,500 underground sites in North Korea that ...
https://mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-largest-underground-sites-in-north.html
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Color Name API
Get human-readable color names from hex codes using our simple REST API.
https://meodai.github.io/color-name-api/
5 months ago
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Human Rights Center
6 months ago
The final in a special
@justsecurity.org
series,
@alexakoenig.bsky.social
and Andrea Richardson discuss how
#OSINT
can strengthen accountability for gender crimes through our report on attacks against
#WomanLifeFreedom
protestors:
www.justsecurity.org/112988/open-...
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Open-Source Information Provides Powerful Evidence of Gender Crimes in Iran and Beyond
Digital open source data can be ethically deployed to strengthen investigations and prosecutions on gender crimes in Iran and elsewhere.
https://www.justsecurity.org/112988/open-source-information-evidence-gender-crimes-iran/
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Shayan Sardarizadeh
5 months ago
The Iran-Israel conflict marks the first time in a war where AI-generated videos and images have been widely shared by supporters of both sides as an effective tool to fight the information war.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel-Iran conflict unleashes wave of AI disinformation
Fake AI videos relating to the conflict have gained over 100 million views online, BBC Verify finds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k78715enxo
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Evergreen Intel
6 months ago
Significant damage in downtown Tel Aviv/Ramat Gan. Maslawi Elite Tower, 32.082825, 34.805663 Glass blown out in at least a two-block radius from the tower.
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NEW: Fire at Iranian Nuclear Site? Verifying Israeli Strikes with Video Following the Israeli strikes, aircraft have been avoiding Iranian airspace. According to data from Flightradar24, which tracks global air traffic, planes disappeared from Iranian skies.
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NEW: Fire at Iranian Nuclear Site? Verifying Israeli Strikes with Video The nuclear facility in Natanz, central Iran, was targeted. We verified footage posted on X and confirmed flames and thick black smoke near the site.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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イラン核関連施設で火災か イスラエル攻撃を映像で検証 - 日本経済新聞
イスラエル軍は13日、イランの核関連施設を含む数十カ所を攻撃したと発表した。首都テヘランの市街地でも被害が報告されている。どこが被害を受けたのか。SNSに投稿された映像や写真を検証した。ナタンズの核施設で火災かイラン中部ナタンズの核施設が標的になった。首都テヘランから南に約230キロに位置する。イスラエルのネタニヤフ首相は13日、X(旧ツイッター)で演説動画を公開し、「ナタンズにある主要な
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCA136HT0T10C25A6000000/
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NEW: Fire at Iranian Nuclear Site? Verifying Israeli Strikes with Video We verified videos and photos posted on social media.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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Evan Hill
6 months ago
A new satellite imagery analysis by Dr. He Yin of Kent State University shows that nearly all of Gaza's crops, tree cover and grassland have been damaged in Israel's invasion — devastation that some have said should be prosecuted as "ecocide."
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auonsson
6 months ago
I believe the Kaliningrad and St Petersburg (and more?) spoof-jammers have increased their reach significantly. The area around Baltic Sea presently affected by electronic warfare directed at GNSS/GPS-receivers is enormous, larger than before. Bbl with a timelapse. Nb, this is reach at 10-30k ft.
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Wesley Morgan
6 months ago
The death toll of Israel’s war in Gaza, according to this investigation, includes 266 entire nuclear families (two parents and their children) of three, 192 entire nuclear families of four, 171 of five, 121 of six, 50 of seven, 17 of eight, 10 of nine, 3 of eleven, and 1 of fourteen.
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The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far
The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FATALITIES/byvrxlqeqve/
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GiamMa-based researchers SDR R&D IoT
6 months ago
New & not new details of GPS/GNSS Spoofing, Jamming,Anomaly,Faults,Bug,Hack or Magic The New Blender of Moscow New Spoofing GPS/GNSS configuration in Moscow, Russia. Putin's stinky guy shit his pants 😎🤓
#Jammer
#Jamming
#Spoofer
#Spoofing
#GPS
#GNSS
#EW
#ElectronicWarfare
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GiamMa-based researchers SDR R&D IoT
6 months ago
New & not new details of GPS/GNSS Spoofing, Jamming,Anomaly,Faults,Bug,Hack or Magic Spoofing GPS/GNSS in Moscow, Russia Putin's stinky guy shit his pants 😎🤓🥳
#Jammer
#Jamming
#Spoofer
#Spoofing
#GPS
#GNSS
#EW
#ElectronicWarfare
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s. e. smith
6 months ago
Again, cannot stress enough how much people should have fought the proliferation of automatic license plate readers when they had the chance.
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ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/
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Jacque Schrag
6 months ago
A powerful and moving
#dataviz
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Interactive Journalism
7 months ago
New on USA Today : “New Orleans jail escape: Maps and videos show how it happened”
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New Orleans jail escape: Maps and videos show how it happened
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/05/21/new-orleans-jail-escape-update-explained/83765522007/
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Conspirador Norteño
almost 2 years ago
None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway. Here's an article on Amazon authors with GAN-generated faces and the books these authors publish (which appear to be almost entirely devoid of original human-created content).
conspirator0.substack.com/p/none-of-th...
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None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway
Once you find one author with an AI-generated face and potential AI-generated books, Amazon will helpfully direct you to more
https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/none-of-these-people-exist-but-you
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tlmn
7 months ago
#LessonsLearned
: Improvement of LLMs sometimes also comes with downsides. We used GPT4o to create trainingdata for our
findthatspot.io
Geolocation-application. Now, GPT stoppped to follow our prompts to add deliberate mistakes in the data to mimic user input. Makes retraining our model difficult.
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SPOT - the easy way to verify locations
Spot is a tool for finding combinations of objects in the public space world-wide.
https://findthatspot.io
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Polar Portal
7 months ago
The onset of the melting season in Greenland is defined as the first of at least three days in a row with melting over more than 5% of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The median over the period 1981-2025 is on 26 May. This year, the melting onset was 12 days early, on 14 May, which is rank 11 of 45 years.
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Stephen Bush
7 months ago
Finding some of the 'fishing only employs less than [insert other industry]' posts a bit irksome, firstly because a) the EU-UK deal is not actualyl a bad one for UK fishing! But also because yes, it is a small industry, but it is an important one where people risk their lives:
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Filipino fishermen in the UK live lives of peril and loneliness
Two cousins came to the UK for a better life. They left changed forever
https://ig.ft.com/filipino-fishermen/
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AnnoNemo
7 months ago
Geolocation| Israeli forces blow up approx. 8 buildings amid vast destruction in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, Rafah, South
#Gaza
31.307989, 34.244029 Video:
t.me/yinonews/36168
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Eliot Higgins
7 months ago
New from Bellingcat - How deepfake videos are getting mainstream coverage in the conflict between India and Pakistan
www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...
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India-Pakistan Conflict: How a Deepfake Video Made it Mainstream - bellingcat
A manipulated video falsely claiming to show a General in the Pakistani army stating two of its fighter jets had been shot down was picked up and spread by Indian media outlets.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2025/05/09/india-pakistan-conflict-how-a-deepfake-video-made-it-mainstream/
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Svelte Society
7 months ago
We are going live today! Don't worry if you have time zone problems or if you want to watch the stream on another today. You can watch the stream after purchase and logging into the website at any time.
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NEW: Visual Investigation 1,000 Pages Disappear from U.S. Government Websites Signs of Information Manipulation Under the Trump Administration
vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics...
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7 months ago
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Nathan Ruser
8 months ago
I've been going through the imagery and mapping any destroyed/damaged structure, particular rescue priorities (potential mass casualty events) and IDP locations in all the imagery available.
google.com/maps/d/edit?...
Please check the map and share widely with anyone who will find it useful.
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Myanmar Earthquake Damage - Google My Maps
ANY organisation can use this data for any purpose. Notes on methodology: Destroyed locations: All identified destroyed/damaged sites have been identified from satellite imagery. The sites were dete...
https://google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=19DaZoAEwU6VMAMuPw36LgpyLDmjTiI4&usp=sharing
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Webrecorder
9 months ago
We’re excited to share the first batch of US Government websites that Webrecorder has archived as part of the
@eotarchive.org
initiative. They’re now available on our public collections gallery
app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgo...
#WebArchiving
#Browsertrix
#EOTarchive
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Robert Simmon
9 months ago
Fabulous (but terrifying "Transpolar sea route (future route)") maps of Greenland by
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/graphics/GRE...
via
@cchurchili.bsky.social
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Lydia Polgreen
over 1 year ago
Important and careful visual investigation of what happened at UCLA from the New York Times establishes how counter-protestors provoked violence.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours
The New York Times used videos filmed by journalists, witnesses and protesters to analyze hours of clashes — and a delayed police response — at a pro-Palestinian encampment on Tuesday.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
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Eliot Higgins
9 months ago
From Marine Traffic, here's the moment of the crash between the oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate and a cargo vessel MV Solong. Live updates here
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
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Interactive Journalism
9 months ago
New on The New York Times : “How South Korea’s President Planned a Military Takeover, Then Blew It”
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How South Korea’s President Planned a Military Takeover, Then Blew It
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/10/world/asia/south-korea-martial-law-president-yoon.html
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"I have betrayed the love and grace of the party" This hastily written note contains the reflections of a North Korean soldier far from his homeland. Read the English version→ [The last words of North Korean soliders killed in Russia]
asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata...
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The last words of North Korean soldiers killed in Russia
https://asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata/infographics/north-korean-soldiers-in-russia/
9 months ago
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Eliot Higgins
9 months ago
Looking forward to presenting my new work on the threat of disordered discourse to democracy at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, where I'll be giving the opening keynote, and probably making everyone feel a bit sad
www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...
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Cambridge Disinformation Summit (2025) - Cambridge Judge Business School
Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.
https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-disinformation-summit-2025/
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Chris Alcantara
9 months ago
Used
@washingtonpost.com
push alerts to visualize the deluge of Trump's executive orders and actions in the first six weeks of his second term, while
@sadbumblebee.buzz
helped make sense of all the chaos:
wapo.st/4i31t4x
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Visualizing Trump’s effort to reshape America through executive orders
What Trump has done with executive orders, actions in his first six weeks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/03/04/trump-executive-orders-actions-president/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQxMDY0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQyNDQzMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDEwNjQ0MDAsImp0aSI6IjhhNTY3YWM2LTk3NGQtNGYyMi04YzE5LTJjOGRhZWNhYTdhNCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy9pbnRlcmFjdGl2ZS8yMDI1LzAzLzA0L3RydW1wLWV4ZWN1dGl2ZS1vcmRlcnMtYWN0aW9ucy1wcmVzaWRlbnQvIn0.qKNNrSeS2PuoFDotR2b_BMDYQ4HYzeR_-xnlDmcOJlo&itid=gfta
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Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN ABC news analyses password patterns in our digital lives and readers will gain new insights from the story.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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Is your PIN code among the first ones hackers are likely to try?
The ABC analysed 29 million stolen codes to help you avoid using an insecure one.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-28/almost-one-in-ten-people-use-the-same-four-digit-pin/103946842
9 months ago
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NEW: Visual Investigation Last Words of North Korean Soldiers in Russia
vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics...
Around 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded. What were their final thoughts? This report analyzes notes and belongings left behind on the battlefield.
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ロシアに散った北朝鮮兵の遺言
ロシアによるウクライナ侵略から3年。ロシアは北朝鮮が派遣した兵士の多くを戦線に投入し、約4千人が死傷した。彼らは最期に何を思い、異国の地で倒れたのか。戦場に残された数々の遺留品を分析した。
https://vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics/north-korean-soldiers-in-russia/
9 months ago
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NEW: Who attended President Trump's inauguration? Our team analyzed multiple images and created the graphics.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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トランプ大統領就任式、イーロン・マスク氏らテック大手トップに際立つ「厚待遇」 - 日本経済新聞
米国で20日開かれたトランプ新大統領の就任式には政権との関係強化を狙うテック大手のトップらが出席した。巨額寄付などで取り入る経営者の座席は演台に近く、厚遇ぶりが際立った。選挙戦を支えた側近やトランプ氏と近い各国首脳のほか、第1次政権で貿易戦争に発展した中国も特使が出席し、同氏との距離感が透ける場となった。テック大手トップが存在感宣誓するトランプ氏の後方、家族らに次いで目立つ位置にテック大手の
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCA168100W5A110C2000000/
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New houses in North Korea are being constructed, which was hit by floods last summer. We used QGIS to analyze multiple satellite images taken in the past.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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水害の北朝鮮、復興で農村一変 現場と衛星画像で分析 - 日本経済新聞
2024年夏に大規模洪水に見舞われた北朝鮮北部の農村で、復興事業が完了した。12月末、再建された住宅で人々が生活を始めた。衛星画像を分析すると、従来の集落を集約してコンパクトな街づくりを進めたことが分かった。洪水は中国との国境を流れる鴨緑江が豪雨で氾濫して起きた。多数の労働者が平壌から派遣され工事が進んだ。朝鮮中央通信によると12月下旬、現地で住宅の竣工式が開かれた。金正恩(キム・ジョンウン
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCA310OQ0R31C24A2000000/
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AnnoNemo
11 months ago
Geolocation| Israeli airstrike on an alleged Hamas launch site next to UN buildings, including the UNSCO office, Gaza City, Northern
#Gaza
31.521229, 34.436321 Source:
x.com/idfonline/st...
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