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Succeed in tough times: Make a digital pivot
When the coronavirus pandemic hit earlier this year, Alonso Yañez, CIO of Walmart’s operations in Mexico and Central America, sprang into action, triggering the retailer’s crisis management plan and leading its ongoing response. After quickly upgrading his remote-access infrastructure, Yañez sent all 1,000 of his IT staffers home, where they have been working ever since. […]
Asteroid Bennu may have been home to ancient water flows
Ahead of an October 20 attempt to bring extraterrestrial rocks from an asteroid called Bennu to Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered new insights into its chemistry and geology. Bennu, currently over 321 million kilometers from Earth, was chosen for study because it’s a carbonaceous chondritic rock—rich in organics, and thought to have formed in […]
The 14 Juiciest Quotes From the House Antitrust Report
Internal emails and employee interviews shed new light on what Congress has learned about Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Powered by WPeMatico
A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed
Busted: A bot powered by OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 language model has been unmasked after a week of posting comments on Reddit. Under the username /u/thegentlemetre, the bot was interacting with people on /r/AskReddit, a popular forum for general chat with 30 million users. It was posting in bursts of roughly once a minute. Fooled ya—again: It’s […]
Rapid covid tests can work—if you avoid making the White House’s mistakes
As of Tuesday evening, 18 people who’ve worked at the White House had tested positive for covid-19. That count is likely to tick upward. Now the White House strategy to prevent such an outbreak is coming under scrutiny—in large part because it hinged mostly on the use of daily rapid testing and nothing else. In […]
Covid-19 has led to a worrisome uptick in the use of electronic ankle monitors
As covid-19 began to spread earlier this year, it soon became clear that prisons and jails are particularly susceptible to outbreaks. In response, criminal justice systems around the world started looking for alternatives to incarceration. Many turned to electronic ankle monitors as a solution. They used this technology to quickly relocate people from secure custody […]
Winter will make the pandemic worse. Here’s what you need to know.
As we head into the Northern Hemisphere fall with covid-19 still raging in the US and a number of other parts of the world, two data points provide cause for extra concern. One is that the seasonal flu—a respiratory viral infection like covid-19—is much more active in the winter. Last year in the US, there […]
The future of mobile AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand to power everything from security and facial recognition software to autonomous vehicles and mobile apps. In “Women leading the future of mobile AI,” a video series sponsored by Qualcomm Technologies, MIT Technology Review CEO Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau explores the latest AI advances on software tools, mobile platforms, and algorithmic advancements […]
Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using cells originally derived from an abortion
This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue. The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to […]