Why contact tracing may be a mess in America
Dozens of states across the US are pinning their hopes on contact tracing to control the spread of the coronavirus...
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Maybe it’s time to retire the idea of “going viral”
For years we’ve been using the phrase “gone viral” to describe something that becomes wildly popular on the internet. But...
Changelog: Covid Tracing Tracker updates as they happen
Technology Review is running a project to monitor and observe the development and deployment of automated contact tracing apps aimed...
The pandemic is emptying call centers. AI chatbots are swooping in
Brian Pokorny had heard of AI systems for call centers before. But as the IT director of Otsego County, New...
This is what we know so far about how covid-19 affects the rest of the body
Covid-19 is primarily a respiratory infection that attacks the lungs, making it harder for patients to breathe and get enough...
“The first day was really hard”: Life as a contact tracer
As American states weigh the possibility of reopening services in the face of the covid-19 pandemic, the demand for contact...
A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them.
As the covid-19 pandemic rages, technologists everywhere have been rushing to build apps, services, and systems for contact tracing: identifying...
India is forcing people to use its covid app, unlike any other democracy
The world has never seen anything quite like Aarogya Setu. Two months ago, India’s app for coronavirus contact tracing didn’t...
Facebook and YouTube are rushing to delete “Plandemic,” a conspiracy-laden video
The news: A 25-minute clip of an upcoming documentary featuring a well-known anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist was viewed millions of times...
A guide to negotiating a covid “bubble” with other people
This weekend I’m going to break my isolation for the first time in two months. Aside from occasional socially distanced...
These pop songs were written by OpenAI’s deep-learning algorithm
The news: In a fresh spin on manufactured pop, OpenAI has released a neural network called Jukebox that can generate...
This man assembled his own covid antibody tests for himself and his friends
In Portland, Oregon, earlier this spring, a programmer named Ian Hilgart-Martiszus pulled out a needle and inserted it into the...
Covid-19 and the workforce: Critical workers, productivity, and the future of AI
In less than two months, covid-19 created arguably the world’s largest collective shift in social activity and working practices. Research...
Covid hoaxes are using a loophole to stay alive—even after content is deleted
Since the onset of the pandemic, the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center, where I...
Health systems are in need of radical change; virtual care will lead the way
The covid-19 pandemic has shown us how much health care is in need of not just tweaking but radical change....
Doctors are using AI to triage covid-19 patients. The tools may be here to stay
Rizwan Malik had always had an interest in AI. As the lead radiologist at the Royal Bolton Hospital, run by...
Antigen testing could be a faster, cheaper way to diagnose covid-19
Coronavirus testing in the US is nowhere near where it should be. A recent road map suggested we need to...
Israel is using AI to flag high-risk covid-19 patients
One of Israel’s largest health maintenance organizations is using artificial intelligence to help identify which of the 2.4 million people it...
