All together now: the most trustworthy covid-19 model is an ensemble
Earlier this spring, a paper studying covid forecasting appeared on the medRxiv preprint server with…
India is grappling with covid grief
Spring 2021 in India has been horrific and frightening: ambulances wail constantly, funeral pyres are…
Data fairness: A new social contract for the 21st century economy
Over the past two decades, the data economy has permeated every aspect of our social…
A startup using minerals to draw down CO2 has scored funding—and its first buyer
A new startup is relying on minerals to pull carbon dioxide out of the air,…
Better cybersecurity means finding the “unknown unknowns”
During the past few months, Microsoft Exchange servers have been like chum in a shark-feeding…
AI is learning how to create itself
A little stick figure with a wedge-shaped head shuffles across the screen. It moves in a…
Chinese hackers posing as the UN Human Rights Council are attacking Uyghurs
Chinese-speaking hackers are masquerading as the United Nations in ongoing cyber-attacks against Uyghurs, according to…
Startup Phantom Space wants to be the Henry Ford of rockets
Jim Cantrell calls himself “one of the intellectual fathers of the small-launch business.” It’s hard…
The US worried about vaccine tourists. Now it’s encouraging them.
Like many vaccine tourists, “Alex” doesn’t want you to know his real name. The British…
A blind man can perceive objects after a gene from algae was added to his eye
The 58-year-old man was blind, barely able to perceive whether it was day or night.…