Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. It’s a little like Google, except all of the results have been reported by Times journalists. The tool, which uses machine learning to most accurately infer what readers are asking, is a project of The Times’s research and development group. In June, the R&D team updated its website to make it easier to share its experimental projects and its newsroom collaborations with fellow technologists, journalists and academics. While “research and development” might evoke images of locked offices full of analysts and inventors secretly building futuristic prototypes, the reality is a bit different.

Source: New York Times August 11, 2021 09:00 UTC