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Articles by Scott Lowenstein
Powering Live News With Mobile Video Transmission
As The New York Times increases the amount of visual reporting in our live news coverage, R&D has been focusing on ways to transmit those visuals faster, easier and more reliably. Beam is an app developed by R&D to allow reporters in the field to file media and captions directly to the Times newsroom from their phones.
Adapting Spatial Audio for Browser-Based 3D Storytelling
As part of explorations into spatial audio podcasting, R&D developed a web audio player that can be used to listen to spatial audio mixes on the web. This month, the experimental audio player was used by The New York Times Graphics Desk to produce an audiovisual simulation of the restored Notre Dame cathedral, creating an immersive 3D audio experience that mimics the way the space sounds in the real world.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Freeze Key Super Bowl Action
As part of The Times's coverage of Super Bowl LVII, R&D and The New York Times Graphics Desk collaborated to offer readers a 3D perspective on a decisive moment of the game — when Kansas City receiver Kadarius Toney slipped past Philadelphia Eagles receiver Zach Pascal during a late game punt return. The technique used to create the scene uses artificial intelligence to generate 3D models of athletes from a single photograph.
An Open-Source Framework for Object Storage in Redis with Go
The Times is experimenting with Natural Language Processing (N.L.P.) to answer reader questions with trustworthy, reported information. As part of our efforts to build N.L.P. powered tools for the newsroom, we developed a framework to make accessing data in complex, multi-server applications easier. Today, we’re open sourcing that framework to make creating N.L.P. projects more accessible to others.
Accelerating Real-Time Coverage with Eclipse, a New Video Transmission App
R&D is creating ways to improve the workflow of Times video journalists using faster 5G cellular networks. Our new app Eclipse gives journalists the power to transmit professionally shot video footage using just a cellphone. The technology enables a new workflow that allows journalists to send footage from the field in real-time instead of leaving the scene of a story to find WiFi and file clips from a laptop.
Using Secure Sourcing to Combat Misinformation
May 5, 2021 by Scott Lowenstein A photo is captured with a secure sourcing-enabled device in Brooklyn, N.Y., on November 23, 2020, by Niko Koppel for The New York Times R&D. A simple principle drives our efforts to combat misinformation: people have the right to know the real source of what they see and read online. Responsible news organizations adhere to standards for attributing information, including the proper captioning and crediting of photos.
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