Trump’s freeze on new visas could threaten US dominance in AI
Even before president Trump’s executive order on June 22, the US was already bucking global tech immigration trends. Over the...
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The virus “I am very wary of simplistic projections about the ongoing outbreak based solely off of its current growth...
The UK’s contact tracing app fiasco is a master class in mismanagement
There are advantages to being one of the world’s largest single-payer health-care systems. For the UK’s National Health Service, the...
Trump’s data-hungry, invasive app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power
Ahead of President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his 2020 re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted about the event. “Just...
The global AI agenda: The Middle East and Africa
This report is part of “The global AI agenda,” a thought leadership program by MIT Technology Review Insights examining how...
Our biggest questions about immunity to covid-19
We’re still not very sure how covid-19 immunity works. As we inch closer to a vaccine and pin our hopes...
Here’s how genes from covid-19 survivors could help you
Potential weapons against covid-19 include manufactured antibodies, serum transfusions from survivors, antivirals, steroids, and more than 100 vaccine candidates, some...
Facebook just released a database of 100,000 deepfakes to teach AI how to spot them
Deepfakes have struck a nerve with the public and researchers alike. There is something uniquely disturbing about these AI-generated images...
The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police
In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that...
Rumors, death, and a tech overhaul: Inside Amazon’s race to hire 175,000 workers during a pandemic
It was a surge unlike any other, even for Amazon. In the first quarter of 2020, the e-commerce giant’s net...
A teenager’s guide to building the world’s best pandemic and protest trackers
The coronavirus pandemic and the protests sparked by the May 25 murder of George Floyd have been the defining events...
Twitter wants you to read articles before you retweet them
The news: Twitter is testing a new feature on Android phones that prompts people to read articles before they share...
