The New York Times' massive photo archive is being digitized with Google's help

The New York Times has millions of printed photographs stored in an underground archive nicknamed "the morgue," and it has begun the arduous task of digitizing this collection. Google is part of the project, according to a post on one of the company's blogs, where it explains that its machine learning and cloud technologies will help The New York Times store, process, and search its archive. The morgue houses between 5 and 7 million photographs dating back to the late 19th century, all of them s...