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WORLD SIGNAL

One globe.Five thousand years.

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What is happening where right now – and how sure is it? What happened here 800 years ago? What would you have done? And how does that become a video in two minutes? One app answers all four questions.

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LiveDaily edition no. 270 · 9 stories on the globe
WORLD SIGNAL in Earth live mode: dawn over Asia, Europe still showing its city lights, layers and satellites in orbit on the left
Earth live · screenshot from the app

The planet as satellites see it today.

Today’s satellite image, city lights on the night side, the International Space Station passing overhead, the aurora forecast and natural hazards – all from open data sources. The time dial jumps 24 hours forward and back.

Layers

  • Clouds
  • City lights
  • Aurora
  • Wind
  • Satellites
  • Hazards

O Key O

Imagery: NASA GIBS (Blue Marble, VIIRS, Black Marble) · Aurora: NOAA SWPC · Orbits: CelesTrak · Stars: Yale Bright Star Catalog

Video “The Earth today”. Made in the app with one click on “Make a video of today’s Earth” – the day’s satellite image, night lights, ISS and aurora.

Today’s front page.

This page prints itself: the first stories of today’s daily edition, from twenty openly licensed sources, every story linked to its originals. You read the same issue as a magazine in the app.

Last printed editionDaily edition No. 270 · Sun, 27 September 2026

Headlines stay in the language of their source – WORLD SIGNAL never machine-translates the news.

Daily edition · No. 270Sun, 27 September 2026

World Signal

Natural Disaster · Eastern PacificHurricane PoloSevere storm tracked by NASA EONET (JTWC, NOAA_NHC). Latest measurement: 140 kts.3 sources · NASA EONET · GDACS · NOAA National Hurricane Center
  1. 02Natural DisasterHurricane Odalys
  2. 03Natural DisasterTyphoon Surigae
  3. 04Natural DisasterTropical Storm Fay
  4. 05CrimeTen people are killed and 11 others are injured in a mass shooting at a store in Lwandle, City of Cape Town, South Africa.
  5. 06ConflictSaudi Arabia's air forces carries out an airstrike at a market in Taiz, Yemen, killing seven people and wounding 40 more.
Printed 15:05 from 331 eventsRead the whole magazineR

News that shows where it came from.

Every story lands on the globe where it happens – with source, time and verification status. Reports from several sources about the same event are merged. The more independent sources, and the closer to the primary source, the higher the level.

Confirmation, not truth.
The videos say it too: the level tells you how well a story is sourced – not whether it is true.

  • Situation room

    Feed, timeline, countries and watch zones – every story with source, place and verification status.

  • Magazine

    The ten biggest stories of the day or the week, printed from the live data. Key R.

  • Watch

    Keep an eye on regions and get notified the moment something happens there.

  • Export

    As CSV, JSON or a finished situation report.

  • Terminal

    Understands “44 BC”, “Germany” or “Charlemagne”.

Lead storyLive

DIS · Natural Disaster

Hurricane Polo

Eastern Pacific

70ScorePrimary source confirmed3 independent sources

Verification levels

  1. Unconfirmed
  2. Single source
  3. Multiple sources
  4. Primary source confirmed
  5. High confidence

Sources of this story

Daily edition no. 270 · printed 15:05

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The app’s situation room: the feed with a verification status for every story on the left, the globe with the events in the middle, the situation panel on the right
Situation room · screenshot from the app

20 openly licensed sources

No API keys, licensed for use in the paid editions.

  • USGS Earthquake Hazards
  • GDACS (UN OCHA / EC JRC)
  • NASA EONET
  • NASA News
  • NASA Earth Observatory
  • NOAA Hurricane Center (Atlantic)
  • NOAA Hurricane Center (Eastern Pacific)
  • NOAA Space Weather
  • Copernicus Emergency Management
  • Wikipedia – Current events
  • Wikipedia – Aktuelles (German)
  • Global Voices
  • The Conversation
  • European Commission
  • GOV.UK – FCDO
  • GOV.UK – Travel advice
  • Mongabay
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • ECDC
  • Destatis

Switching to archive

In history mode the whole app turns amber – so the archive can never be mistaken for live news. From here on, this page does the same.

3000 BC to today.

Around 14,500 entries from Wikidata, plus 123 hand-curated events with Wikipedia references. Historical borders for every era and Street View for every historical place – in sepia by default.

Time machine

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Borders move across the map year by year: 13 journeys through 5,000 years, such as Europe from 1000 to 2000 in one minute.

Chronicle

  1. 1014Battle of Kleidion
  2. 1066Battle of Hastings
  3. 1121Battle of Didgori
  4. 1215Magna Carta sealed
  5. 1258Siege of Baghdad
  6. 1297Battle of Stirling Bridge
  7. 1347The Black Death reaches Europe
  8. 1410Battle of Grunwald
  9. 1453Fall of Constantinople
  10. 1519First circumnavigation of the globe
  11. 1588Defeat of the Spanish Armada
  12. 1648Peace of Westphalia
  13. 1687Newton publishes the Principia
  14. 1755Lisbon earthquake
  15. 1812Napoleon’s invasion of Russia
  16. 1871Proclamation of the German Empire
  17. 1914First World War
  18. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • On this day

    Round anniversaries first, plus “This month in history”, a top five and a shareable link to every event.

  • Which year?

    The quiz seals the year everywhere. Questions that give the answer away in their title are dropped automatically. Key Q.

  • On location

    Street View for every historical place, and photos of today from Wikimedia Commons.

Borders: Cliopatria (Seshat), CC BY 4.0 – a scholarly reading, often of fuzzy territories · Events: Wikipedia/Wikidata

In the middle of the battle.

Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798Clips from “A day in WORLD SIGNAL” – films rendered straight from the 3D mode. Game scene, schematic reconstruction. On-screen text in German.

Look

Seven battles, reconstructed unit by unit: Cannae, Alesia, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, Midway and Little Bighorn. At the war table you give two orders – then you step onto the 3D terrain: at eye level, from the commander’s hill, by drone, in cinema or VR mode. The light follows the real position of the sun.

Six cameras
Eye level with WASD controls, commander’s hill, in the thick of it, cinema, drone and VR.
Real reconstructions
Formations and movements from Marchpast (CC BY 4.0). Six battles are playable at the war table, Little Bighorn can only be watched.
A film at the push of a button
Scripted as a vlog, documentary or hype cut – in English or German, with subtitles and a score.

The world is your board.

Five channels, one globe – all on the real Earth, with real countries and places.

WORLD SIGNAL

89.5 MHz
Channel 0189.5 MHz

Lead a nation

190 countries, one of them yours. One quarter per turn until 2050 – policies, interest groups with demands, dispatches, elections, great projects and crises that surface in real time. Six paths to victory, five difficulty levels.

Nation mode: Germany on the political map of Europe with economic figures, advisers and goals

Drag the needle or tap a station

A strategy simulation, not a forecast: bots follow simplified rules and say nothing about real states or people. Current wars are not replayed, nobody can start a war of aggression and nobody can order a nuclear strike.

Every story becomes a video.

The studio renders vertical videos at 1080 × 1920 right in the browser – frame-accurate MP4s with burned-in subtitles. The Signal Engine picks its own effects for every story. For deaths, conflict and crime nothing shakes and nothing flashes.

V Key V

Studio

Live

New modes

3D battles

1080 × 1920 · 0:29Export MP4

Look

Signal

The day’s top stories, each with its verification status and number of independent sources.

Safe to post

More templates

  • Breaking news0:17
  • Country briefing0:25
  • Good news
  • On this day0:28
  • Top-five series0:28
  • History · person0:58
  • History · year0:32
  • Quiz · Which year?0:42
  • Explainer0:22

Clips from videos rendered by the studio (German editions). No sound.

  • Looks

    Poster, Signal, Broadcast and Minimal – each with adjustable intensity.

  • Safe to post

    Only sources whose licence allows it make it into a video – and they are credited on screen.

  • Your own voice

    A local voice-over in English and German in the desktop app, subtitled word by word.

  • Creator Pro

    Your own brand, your own data from a table, 60–90-second cuts and a whole content plan in one run.

The studio in the app: templates in four steps on the left, a preview of the geo quiz video in the Poster look on the right
Studio · screenshot from the app

Your story, your region, your event – on the globe.

For companies, cities, museums and schools we turn WORLD SIGNAL into something of your own: films from your timeline, a channel for your region, a globe for the lobby, a quiz for the evening.

Your history as a film: the founding, the sites, the milestones – on a moving map of the world as it was, with borders changing in the background.

Ask for a callSee it live in the app

  1. 1 · Film

    790 €

    one-off · net

    • 60–90 s film, portrait format
    • up to 12 stations from your timeline
    • your logo and colours
    • 2 rounds of corrections

  2. 2 · Film + social

    1.490 €

    one-off · net

    • everything in Film
    • German + English voice-over
    • portrait + landscape
    • 3 short cuts for Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok

  3. 3 · Film + stand

    2.490 €

    one-off + €49/month · net

    • everything in Film + social
    • the journey as a full-screen globe for your reception or fair stand (kiosk)
    • updates for new milestones

How it goes

  1. 1Kick-off call (30 min): your timeline, photos, logo
  2. 2Draft within 5 working days
  3. 3Corrections, final delivery as MP4

What we need from you

  • Timeline with years and places (a table is enough)
  • Logo, colours, up to 12 photos

A 20-minute call is enough to know what fits – you see a first draft with your own content before you decide.

On your PC – with a voice and AI on your own graphics card.

Buy once, keep it. Every game, the history archive, the time machine, Earth live and the studio as a Windows app. The Creator licence adds an English and German voice-over and Gemma for scripts and the game referee – computed on your PC, no subscription.

Desktop

€79

one-off · 2 PCs · 12 months of updates

Every game, history, Earth live, the studio with every template. No local AI.

Desktop Creator

€249

one-off · 2 PCs · 12 months of updates

Everything plus the local voice (DE/EN), Gemma, your own brand, your own data and series export.

In three steps

  1. 1Install and start WORLD SIGNAL.
  2. 2Paste the licence key from your e-mail (also on your account page).
  3. 3Creator: the setup assistant checks your PC and installs the voice and Gemma (about 15 GB download).

The installer is published with the first release. Licences bought now are valid from day one.

The desktop app in detail
The desktop app’s setup assistant: checks the graphics card, driver, memory, free space, Ollama, Gemma, Python and the voice
Setup assistant · screenshot from the reference PCMeasured on the reference PC: Ryzen 5 8400F, 32 GB RAM, GeForce RTX 5060 with 8 GB. The voice and Gemma load one after another – which is why 8 GB of video memory is enough.
All system requirements

System requirements

System requirementsMinimumRecommended
SystemMinimumWindows 10 64-bit (22H2)RecommendedWindows 11 64-bit
ProcessorMinimum4 coresRecommended6 cores or more
MemoryMinimum8 GBRecommended16 GB
GraphicsMinimumAny GPU with WebGL 2 (2016 or newer)RecommendedDedicated GPU for 3D battles and 4K exports
DiskMinimum2 GB freeRecommended5 GB free (map and video caches)
InternetMinimumFor news, maps and satellite dataRecommendedBroadband

Local AI (Creator licence)

Local AI (Creator licence)MinimumRecommended
Graphics cardMinimumNVIDIA GeForce RTX 20xx or newer, 8 GB VRAMRecommendedRTX 4060 Ti 16 GB / RTX 5060 or better
DriverMinimumNVIDIA driver 570 or newer (CUDA 12.8)RecommendedThe latest Game Ready / Studio driver
MemoryMinimum16 GBRecommended32 GB
Disk (voice)Minimum9 GB: PyTorch 4.2 GB, Chatterbox 3.0 GB, Whisper 0.5 GB, German voice 0.1 GBRecommendedSSD
Disk (Gemma)Minimum6.1 GB (Gemma 4 e4b)Recommended+ 7.2 GB for Gemma 4 12b (better German)
SoftwareMinimumPython 3.12 and Ollama – the setup assistant installs both with you

Licence

One licence runs on two of your PCs at a time; free a device in your account to move it. Updates for 12 months are included – the app keeps working after that.

Commercial use

Videos you make may be published and monetised. The voice models (Chatterbox, MIT; Thorsten voice, CC0) and Gemma allow commercial use.

Start free. Pay for depth.

News, Earth live, history and the daily quiz stay free. Premium opens every game in full, Creator Pro turns the studio into your production tool, the desktop licence brings local AI to your own PC.

Free

€0

forever

  • Live news globe with sources and verification
  • Earth live, history mode with 14,500 entries
  • Daily geo quiz + leaderboard
  • Nation: 3 countries, 5 years · campaign: daily journey
  • Time machine: Europe and the 20th century
  • Studio: 5 templates, 3 exports a day
Open the app

Premium

For every game

€4.99

per month · or €39 a year

  • Every country, every difficulty, the whole road to 2050
  • Every campaign route and role, every chapter
  • All six battles on the war table
  • Every 3D battle reconstruction with cinema, drone, VR and films
  • Every time-machine journey + your own
  • Unlimited geo quiz rounds on every level
  • Every video template, no daily limit
  • Game saves in the cloud, several slots
Choose Premium

Creator Pro

€19

per month · or €190 a year

  • Everything in Premium
  • Your own logo, name and colours in every video
  • Videos without the WORLD SIGNAL brand
  • Voice-over in German and English
  • Your own stations and places from a table
  • A whole content plan exported in one run
  • 60–90 s cuts
  • AI scripts, the game’s AI referee and briefs
Choose Creator Pro

Buying, your account and unlocking happen in the app – payment is handled by our payment partner Paddle.

Rather buy once, with local AI: the desktop app from €79

For companies, cities, museums and schools: the packages

All prices include VAT. All prices in detail

Questions

Do I need an account?

No. News, Earth live, history and the daily quiz run in the browser without an account. You only need one for Premium, Creator Pro and cloud saves.

Can I cancel?

Any time in your account. Access runs to the end of the paid period.

May I publish the videos?

Yes – including on monetised channels. The studio only puts sources into a video whose licence allows it, and credits them on screen.

Does the AI really run locally?

In the desktop app, yes: the voice-over and Gemma run on your own graphics card (NVIDIA, 8 GB VRAM). No subscription, no cloud costs.

How does the game deal with war?

It is a strategy simulation, not a forecast. Current wars are not replayed, the player cannot start a war of aggression and nobody can order a nuclear strike. Historical battles show soldier figures without blood.

What do I need for the desktop app?

Windows 10 (22H2) or 11, 64-bit, 4 cores, 8 GB RAM, a graphics card with WebGL 2 and 2 GB of free space. For the voice and AI, an NVIDIA graphics card with 8 GB VRAM.

Open the globe.

The app runs in your browser, no install needed.

Open WORLD SIGNAL

Shortcuts in the app

  • LLanguage
  • OEarth live
  • ZTime machine
  • VStudio
  • ?All shortcuts