For many, tomorrow's COVID Christmas will be a time of muddling through video calls and figuring out ways to see friends and family who are stuck elsewhere.Countries where many Australians have family are in lockdown, while several Australian states...
Apple, led by CEO Tim Cook, might finally be ready to produce its own line of cars. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Apple car, if there is one, could be on the road by 2024....
This spring, while the US government was spinning its wheels on an official covid-19 response, countries around the world were rolling out national contact tracing apps. Beginning with Singapore in mid-March, more than 40 countries have launched digital exposure...
There were more searches for terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” in 2020 than in years past. | John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Neither the media nor fact-checkers controlled the online conversation surrounding “misinformation” this...
We are, of course, looking at ways to apply MuZero to real world problems, and there are some encouraging initial results. To give a concrete example, traffic on the internet is dominated by video, and a big open problem...
A first-grade teacher tries to teach classes from her living room in San Francisco in March. During the pandemic, access to quality broadband internet has been essential for keeping kids learning. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images ...
All viruses undergo random mutations to their genetic material. Any change that offers an advantage—like making the virus infect more hosts or resist certain drugs—will tend to be favored so long as it doesn’t also create a disadvantage, such...
Christina Animashaun/Vox Our lives moved online in 2020. Too bad privacy laws didn’t.
As a digital privacy reporter, I try to avoid sites and services that invade my privacy, collect my data,...
Chef co-founder Adam Jacob argues you should follow his lead and go all in on open source. Not open source “Community” with paid-for “Enterprise” bits. Open. Source. It. All.Sounds great. But what will it mean for your business? Sure,...
Such efforts and proposals are admirable. They are also plainly incommensurate with the scale of the overall problem. That is not their fault, nor does it mean that they’re not worth doing. The problem begins with Giant Tech. Silicon...
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