The antimalarial drug Trump took for covid might actually be dangerous
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are two of the most hyped drugs being studied as treatments for covid-19, thanks in large part...
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This is SpaceX’s big chance to really make history
On Wednesday, May 27, at 4:33 p.m. US Eastern Time, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to...
Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking...
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...
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...
