The key features: quick action, extensive testing, and relentless tracking. | Continue reading
The data set aims to accelerate scientific research that could fight the Covid-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
It has tapped one of the nation’s best flu-forecasting labs to retool its prediction algorithms for the Covid-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
Is the Lone Star State the new promised land for Bitcoin miners? | Continue reading
When knitting site Ravelry banned all pro-Trump content it caused a schism in the community—but it also shone a spotlight on how women are using niche sites to politicize. | Continue reading
People in Seattle who worry they’re infected by the new coronavirus may soon be able to get answers, thanks to a plan funded by the Gates Foundation to distribute at-home nose swabs, the Seattle Times reports.Home test: People will be able to use the kits at home, sending the swa … | Continue reading
How Kim Jong-un's digital bank robbers get away with the crime | Continue reading
From the CDC to Singapore, here are the best sites to consult when you want coronavirus intel. | Continue reading
Fraudsters use fake accounts to spread spam, phishing links, or malware. Now Facebook is revealing details on how it uses AI to fight back. | Continue reading
The news: Honeywell, a US company best known for its home thermostats, has announced that it has built the world’s most powerful quantum computer. | Continue reading
It has fueled prosperity of the last 50 years. But the end is now in sight. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence won’t be very smart if computers don’t grasp cause and effect. That’s something even humans have trouble with. | Continue reading
Adversarial attacks against the technique that powers game-playing AIs and could control self-driving cars shows it may be less robust than we thought. | Continue reading
Super-cheap DNA sequencing could boost cancer screening, prenatal tests, and research into population genetics. | Continue reading
More than a billion internet-connected devices—including Apple's iPhone and Amazon's Echo—are affected by a security vulnerability that could allow hackers to spy on traffic sent over Wi-Fi.The flaw, discovered by the cybersecurity firm ESET, effectively disarms the encryption us … | Continue reading
These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching | Continue reading
The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, has announced the launch of a year-long pilot project of its proposed e-krona. | Continue reading
Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a stance on cryptocurrency policy, making the businessman and former mayor of New York the only active Democratic presidential candidate to directly address the topic. | Continue reading
The news: A deepfake of the president of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Manoj Tiwari, went viral on WhatsApp in the country earlier this month, ahead of legislative assembly elections in Delhi, according to Vice. | Continue reading
A two inch piece of tape fooled the Tesla’s cameras and made the car quickly and mistakenly speed up. | Continue reading
Hackers attacked an American natural gas compression facility with ransomware, according to an advisory from US officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.The attack started because an employee clicked a spearphishing link, a fake link that opened the door … | Continue reading
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Monday he would donate $10 billion to combat climate change, marking one of the largest individual philanthropic commitments ever to the crucial environmental challenge.The details: "This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, NGOs … | Continue reading
The news: China has launched a national cloud learning platform and started broadcasting primary school classes to ensure the country’s 180 million students can still keep learning even though schools are closed, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. | Continue reading
Synthetic versions of the deadly virus could help test treatments. But what are the risks when viruses can be synthetized from scratch? | Continue reading
The news: NASA has picked four teams to develop proposals for new missions. | Continue reading
Social media has zipped information and misinformation around the world at unprecedented speeds, fueling panic, racism … and hope. | Continue reading
Hospitals in China are reporting their experiences with hundreds of patients so far. | Continue reading
A recently discovered fast radio burst turns out to be pulsing on a steady 16-day cycle, marking the first time scientists have been able to see a specific tempo from one of these mysterious signals.What’s an FRB? | Continue reading
The news: China has launched a new “close contact detector” app that lets people check their level of risk for catching the coronavirus. | Continue reading
A new system that can predict a proposed drug’s chemical structure could help prevent adverse drug interactions, one of the leading causes of patient death.Why it matters: According to the FDA, serious adverse drug interactions could kill more than 100,000 hospitalized people in … | Continue reading
The Handshake Network, an ambitious public blockchain project whose developers want to reinvent how internet domain names are assigned, has finally launched its main network after months of testing.Meet the DNS: When you enter a website name into your browser, you make a request … | Continue reading
This isn’t the first time Russia has engaged in such maneuvers. It’s very unclear how the US will respond. | Continue reading
The news: Software called TextFooler can trick natural-language processing (NLP) systems into misunderstanding text just by replacing certain words in a sentence with synonyms. | Continue reading
Faced with information suppression and untrustworthy news, citizens in China and Hong Kong do their best to chronicle the coronavirus outbreak and sift fact from fiction. | Continue reading
The FBI found Eric Marques by breaking the famed anonymity service Tor, and officials won’t reveal if a vulnerability was used. That has activists and lawyers concerned. | Continue reading
The FBI found Eric Marques by breaking the famed anonymity service Tor, and officials won’t reveal the vulnerability they used. That has activists and lawyers concerned. | Continue reading
Global financial institutions use their own secure messaging system called SWIFT to exchange information about financial transactions and comply with money-laundering rules. | Continue reading
Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Google, has released an experimental platform called Assembler to help journalists and front-line fact-checkers quickly verify images.How it works: Assembler combines several existing techniques in academia for detecting common manipulation techn … | Continue reading
Natural-language processing has taken great strides recently—but how much does AI really understand of what it reads? Less than we thought. | Continue reading
Business and technology leaders are being asked to spend $100,000 buying in to the service. | Continue reading
Business and technology leaders are being asked to spend $100,000 buying in to the service. | Continue reading
We've hardly ever seen the moon look like this before. | Continue reading
Google has released a neural-network powered chatbot called Meena that it claims is better than any other chatbot out there.Data slurp: Meena was trained on a whopping 341GB of public social-media chatter—8.5 times as much data as OpenAI’s GPT-2. | Continue reading
What I learned from Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. | Continue reading
Covariant, a Berkeley-based startup, has come out of stealth and thinks its robots are ready for the big time. | Continue reading
Two satellites currently orbiting Earth might very well crash into each other on Wednesday, just above the city of Pittsburgh.What’s going on: Space tracking company LeoLabs found that on January 29, at around 6:39 p.m. | Continue reading
The news: The UK government will let Huawei continue to play a role in building its 5G networks, but it will be banned from providing equipment for “sensitive parts. | Continue reading
Reforestation is critical for lots of reasons, but it’s no substitute for cutting emissions. | Continue reading