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...
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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...
A new US bill would ban the police use of facial recognition
The news: US Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban the use of facial recognition technology by federal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
