The metaverse is a new word for an old idea
I have spent a lot of my career, both in Silicon Valley and beyond, insisting…
Why the balance of power in tech is shifting toward workers
Something has changed for the tech giants. Even as they continue to hold tremendous influence…
How Pfizer made an effective anti-covid pill
In the early days of the pandemic, all eyes were on potential vaccines. In May…
Turning AI into your customer experience ally
It’s one thing to know whether an individual customer is intrigued by a new mattress…
What researchers learned from deliberately giving people covid
The news: People who’ve caught covid become infectious far more quickly than previously believed, according…
Meet the NSA spies shaping the future
For someone with a deeply scientific job, Gil Herrera has a nearly mystical mandate: Look…
This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA
A police officer is at the scene of a murder. No witnesses. No camera footage.…
The new version of GPT-3 is much better behaved (and should be less toxic)
OpenAI has built a new version of GPT-3, its game-changing language model, that it says does…
Free covid tests are meant to reduce inequity, but they’re highlighting it
Lisa Levy is a housing case manager at Columbus House in New Haven, Connecticut, where…
Five risks of moving your database to the cloud
Moving to the cloud is all the rage. According to an IDC Survey Spotlight, Experience…