The next pandemic is already here. Covid can teach us how to fight it.
It was August 2017, and pleasant and breezy in the central mountains of Madagascar. The…
LinkedIn’s job-matching AI was biased. The company’s solution? More AI.
Years ago, LinkedIn discovered that the recommendation algorithms it uses to match job candidates with…
Navigating a surprising pandemic side effect: AI whiplash
Amid the many business disruptions caused by covid-19, here’s one largely overlooked: artificial intelligence (AI)…
Scientists might have spotted tectonic activity inside Venus
Venus might be hell, but don’t call it a dead planet. Amid surface temperatures of…
It took a pandemic, but the US finally has (some) centralized medical data
Throughout the pandemic, there has been serious tension between what the public wants to know,…
Work in Asia’s data age
The steady advance of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies has been reshaping work and…
NASA inches closer to printing artificial organs in space
In America, at least 17 people a day die waiting for an organ transplant. But…
Holistic decision-making in a digitized health-care environment
Smart data integration can help to increase the quality of data-based decision-making, especially in scenarios…
The best places to find extraterrestrial life in our solar system, ranked
If you want to believe, now is the time: the hope that we might one…
Bias isn’t the only problem with credit scores—and no, AI can’t help
We already knew that biased data and biased algorithms skew automated decision-making in a way…