Microsoft Unveils New Tool for Detecting Deepfakes

Medicine & Technology Sep 03, 2020

Tech pioneer Microsoft has launched a new tool to help determine "deepfake" photos and videos, which have become an increasingly common tool for online disinformation.

Evading Your Age—Can You Beat Microsoft’s Programmers?

May 01, 2015

When it comes to the age of the internet, often the way we speak and interact on the interweb can cause us to become associated with those of an older or younger age group, based on linguistics, posting behavior and even what our friends say about us on our public page. But when it comes to the hard fact, and the face behind the screen it’s often difficult to conceal our true ages, even when we’d like to shave a few off.

Seeing In Shades of Red—Revealing the Rings of Saturn

Feb 11, 2015

Unfortunately, when it comes to vision, humans aren’t the most adapted to see the world as it really is. Only capable of seeing a relatively small portion of the electromagnetic waves possible in the spectrum, our view is narrowed to that within the visible spectrum. But thanks to our mental aptitudes, researchers are able to solve this problem by developing imaging techniques that view our world, and the universe, in a different way.