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…
Every workplace can be a place of continual learning
While businesses in every sector have been working toward a digital transformation for the past…
Uyghurs outside China are traumatized. Now they’re starting to talk about it
Mustafa Aksu had a bad track record with therapists. Growing up in China, he was…
We investigated whether digital contact tracing actually worked in the US
In the spring of 2020, the first versions of covid-19 exposure notification systems were released…
Taxing digital advertising could help break up big tech
For the past several years, economists, and government leaders have regularly sounded alarms about the…
The Delta variant doubles the risk of hospitalization—but the vaccines still work
The risk of being hospitalized with the Delta covid-19 variant is roughly double that associated…
Inside the fight to reclaim AI from Big Tech’s control
Timnit Gebru never thought a scientific paper would cause her so much trouble. In 2020,…
Anti-vaxxers are weaponizing Yelp to punish bars that require vaccine proof
On the first hot weekend of the summer, Richard Knapp put up a sign outside…
What makes the Delta covid-19 variant more infectious?
Covid cases are on the rise in England, and a fast-spreading variant may be to…
Clinical trials are better, faster, cheaper with big data
Clinical trials have never been more in the public eye than in the past year,…