Reimagining our pandemic problems with the mindset of an engineer
The last 20 months turned every dog into an amateur epidemiologist and statistician. Meanwhile, a…
Facebook wants machines to see the world through our eyes
We take it for granted that machines can recognize what they see in photos and…
Covid conspiracy theories are driving people to anti-Semitism online
A warning: Conspiracy theories about covid are helping disseminate anti-Semitic beliefs to a wider audience,…
Podcast: The story of AI, as told by the people who invented it
Welcome to I Was There When, a new oral history project from the In Machines…
AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on
Load up the website This Person Does Not Exist and it’ll show you a human…
The covid tech that is intimately tied to China’s surveillance state
Sometime in mid-2019, a police contractor in the Chinese city of Kuitun tapped a young…
The moon didn’t die as early as we thought
The moon may have been more volcanically active than we realized. Lunar samples that China’s Chang’e 5 spacecraft brought…
Video: How cheap renewables and rising activism are shifting climate politics
The plummeting costs of renewables, the growing strength of the clean energy sector, and the…
A French company is using enzymes to recycle one of the most common single-use plastics
Plastic is an environmental scourge, and most isn’t recycled. Enzymes, nature’s catalysts, may be able…
After 20 years of drone strikes, it’s time to admit they’ve failed
After the Taliban took over Kabul in mid-August, a black-bearded man with a Kalashnikov appeared…