Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? (Published 2020)
The creation of these types of fake images only became possible in recent years thanks to a new type of artificial intelligence called a generative adversarial network. In essence, you feed a computer program a bunch of photos of real people. It studies them and tries to come up with its own photos of people, while another part of the system tries to detect which of those photos are fake. The back
‘We Take the Dead From Morning Till Night’ (Published 2020)
No country has been hit harder by the coronavirus than Italy, and no province has suffered as many losses as Bergamo. Photos and voices from there evoke a portrait of despair. Bergamo, Italy This is the bleak heart of the world’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak. There have been 11,591 deaths in Italy, more than China and Spain combined, many times more than the United States. And in Italy the most
How the Virus Got Out (Published 2020)
The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough. We analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why. It seems simple: Stop travel, stop the virus from spreading around the world. Here’s why that didn’t work. Many of the first known cases clustered around a seafood market in Wuhan, China, a city of 11 million and a transportation
Devices That Will Invade Your Life in 2019 (and What’s Overhyped) (Published 2019)
Imagine a future where you are never truly alone. Even when your spouse is on a business trip or your children are away at summer camp, you will always have someone (or something) to talk to. In the morning, you could ask the microwave to heat up a bowl of oatmeal. In your car, you could tell your stereo to put on some ’90s music. And when you walk into the office, you could ask your smartphone, “
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - The New York Times
The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user. One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark to a nearby Planned Parenthood, remaining there for more than an hour. Another represents a person who travels with the mayor of New York during the day and returns to Long Island at night. Yet another leaves a
M.I.T. Media Lab Names a New Director (Published 2011)
For centuries diplomas have been synonymous with the nation’s universities. That makes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s decision to name a 44-year old Japanese venture capitalist who attended, but did not graduate, from two American colleges as the director of one of the world’s top computing science laboratories an unusual choice. On Tuesday, the university plans to announce that Joich
I, Robot: The Man Behind the Google Phone (Published 2007)
Andy Rubin, Google’s resident gadget guru, with a robotic helicopter. He oversees a secretive Google software project that the company hopes will transform the smartphone market.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times Mountain View, Calif. A RETINAL scanner emitting a blue glow monitors the entrance to Andy Rubin’s home in the foothills overlooking Silicon Valley. If the scanner recognizes you, the
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Opinion | Of Dictators and Trade Surpluses (Published 2022)