The response to a video impersonating the Ukrainian president gives a blueprint for how to stop…
Author: Tom Simonite
Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian Soldiers
It takes five minutes to put a name to a soldier's face using little more than…
This App Can Diagnose Rare Diseases From a Child’s Face
Doctors often struggle to identify rare conditions they may only see once in a lifetime. Face2Gene…
YouTube’s Captions Insert Explicit Language in Kids’ Videos
The AI that transcribes spoken dialog on the platform's standard version can render “corn” as “****,”…
Face Recognition Is Out. So How Will the IRS Verify Identity?
Fighting fraud is important. But so is respecting privacy and guarding against bias. It's a “no-win…
It’s Not Just the IRS—the US Government Wants Your Selfies
A controversial new program that uses ****** recognition is part of a national effort to verify…
Synthetic Voices Want to Take Over Audiobooks
As computer-generated voices become more sophisticated, the number of audiobooks—including from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—is set…
This 22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents’ Garage
Sam Zeloof combines 1970s-era machines with homemade designs. His creations show what’s possible for small-scale silicon…
When It Comes to Health Care, AI Has a Long Way to Go
Medical information is more complex and less available than the web data that many algorithms were…
This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure
New algorithms that decipher complex sequences of amino acids offered an early view of the coronavirus…