A new way to train AI systems could keep them safer from hackers
The context: One of the greatest unsolved flaws of deep learning is its vulnerability to so-called adversarial attacks. When added...
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If the coronavirus is really airborne, we might be fighting it the wrong way
This was the week airborne transmission became a big deal in the public discussion about covid-19. Over 200 scientists from around the...
Activating the opportunity marketplace and investing in the workforce of the future
This virtual panel session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Next conference takes an in-depth look at Deloitte and MIT Sloan...
Microsoft’s solution to Zoom fatigue is to trick your brain
There’s a certain routine to logging on to the now-ubiquitous videoconference: join a screen of Brady Bunch–like squares, ping-ponging your...
If you’re over 75, catching covid-19 can be like playing Russian roulette
Are you hiding from covid-19? I am. The reason is simple: the high chance of death from the virus. I...
A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls
In 1996 John Perry Barlow, cofounder of internet rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote “A declaration of the independence...
Intelligent infrastructure: How an agile, robust, and flexible IT infrastructure can make or break digital transformation
In today’s business environment, strategic technology initiatives are driven by the need to grow with greater agility and adapt to...
Another experimental covid-19 vaccine has shown promising early results
The news: An experimental covid-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech provoked immune responses in 45 healthy volunteers, according...
Are we making spacecraft too autonomous?
When SpaceX’s Crew Dragon took NASA astronauts to the ISS near the end of May, the launch brought back a familiar...
A supermassive black hole lit up a collision of two smaller black holes
Astronomers from Caltech have reported that they’ve observed a collision between two black holes. Normally such an event is invisible,...
The US now has more covid-19 tests than it knows what to do with
“We have the greatest testing program anywhere in the world,” US President Donald Trump told reporters on June 23. “We...
Alumni in the coronavirus conversation
The virus “I am very wary of simplistic projections about the ongoing outbreak based solely off of its current growth...
