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,…
These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI
You can see the faint stubble coming in on his upper lip, the wrinkles on…
When AI becomes child’s play
Despite their popularity with kids, tablets and other connected devices are built on top of…
The next Venus missions will tell us about habitable worlds elsewhere
When the DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions to Venus were given the green light by NASA last…
TikTok changed the shape of some people’s faces without asking
“That’s not my face,” Tori Dawn thought, after opening TikTok to make a video in…
The coming productivity boom
The last 15 years have been tough times for many Americans, but there are now…