Unmade in America
In early March, as the coronavirus pandemic forced America to contemplate a nationwide shutdown, Dan St. Louis started to get...
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England has started testing a contact tracing app—again
The news: England’s revamped covid-19 contact tracing app has finally been launched for testing by the public, after its previous...
A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it.
At the start of the week, Liam Porr had only heard of GPT-3. By the end, the college student had...
Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy
The coronavirus pandemic has been a boon for the test proctoring industry. About half a dozen companies in the US...
Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was
Mars today is a cold, dry wasteland—but things were likely much different billions of years ago. Since we started launching...
The pandemic has changed how criminals hide their cash—and AI tools are trying to sniff it out
When economies across the world shut down earlier this year, it wasn’t only business owners and consumers who had to...
How falling solar costs have renewed clean hydrogen hopes
The world is increasingly banking on green hydrogen fuel to fill some of the critical missing pieces in the clean-energy...
“Am I going crazy or am I being stalked?” Inside the disturbing online world of gangstalking
Jenny’s story is not linear, the way that we like stories to be. She was born in Baltimore in 1975...
The problems AI has today go back centuries
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue...
The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal
At a typical annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the program is a parade of titles like...
Chinese and Russian hackers were just sanctioned by Europe for the first time
The European Union imposed its first-ever sanctions for cyberattacks on Thursday, targeting Russian, Chinese, and North Korean groups connected to...
How an EU tax could slash climate emissions far beyond Europe
Last week, European Union leaders approved the most aggressive climate-change plan in history. The eye-catching part was the $600 billion...
