In 2014, a team of behavioral scientists from Harvard and Yale tried to save the future—with a little game theory. Here’s the game part: The researchers broke up a big group of volunteers into five teams they called “generations.”...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have scored scored political points with the law, but a court of law wasn’t thrilled. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Florida law prevented certain platforms from banning political candidates. A...
Boom and bust The shale gas “boom” was as ephemeral as Cruz’s presidential prospects. Yet four years later, running for reelection, Donald Trump used the same script to try to best Democratic nominee Joe Biden in Pennsylvania. One...
Citing the importance of “inclusive design,” Microsoft wants to improve the accessibility of its Visual Studio IDE, with capabilities such as more audio cues and a focus mode under consideration.While the company will seek feedback from users, a few...
The big data era has created valuable resources for public interest outcomes, like health care. In the last 18 months, the speed with which scientists were able to respond to the covid-19 pandemic—faster than any other disease in history—demonstrated...
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, University College London, University of Oxford, and University of Brescia/RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment carried out the first systematic analysis of the relative performance of probabilistic...
A year ago, vaccines to tackle the covid pandemic seemed like a far-off idea. Today, though, doses have been delivered to almost one-quarter of the world’s people—and some are being asked to prove they’re among them, leading to the...
Twitter has caused a political stir in India, after the tech site published a map that incorrectly showed the region of Kashmir as a separate country.Now the company is facing potential criminal charges, with the head of Twitter in...
Sam Altman, the former president of Y Combinator, is backing a new cryptocurrency project called Worldcoin. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Privacy experts aren’t so keen on the idea. Details are slowly...
Red Hat has announced OpenShift 4.8, the latest version of the company’s container-based application development platform anchored by Kubernetes orchestration technology, with improvements impacting cloud-native application development and on-demand computing.Based on Kubernetes 1.21 and CRI-O (Container Runtime Interface) 1.21,...
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