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In some stores, sophisticated systems are tracking customers in almost every imaginable way, from recognizing their faces to gauging their age, their mood, and virtually gussying them up with makeup. The systems rarely ask for people’s permission, and for the most part they don’t have to. In our season 1 finale, we look at the […]

In part-three of this latest series, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review jump on the court to unpack just how much things are changing.  We meet: Donnie Scott, senior vice president of public security, IDEMIAMichael D’Auria, vice president of business development, Second SpectrumJason Gay, sports columnist, The Wall Street JournalRachel Goodger, director […]

What seemed so impossible at the beginning of the pandemic is now real: vaccines are here, in record time. They bring much-needed hope to a holiday season shadowed by death and fear. While authorities work out details for this mass vaccination campaign, though, the public is still waiting for answers to fundamental questions. Who gets […]

When resident physicians at Stanford Medical Center—many of whom work on the frontlines of the covid-19 pandemic—found out that only seven out of over 1,300 of them had been prioritized for the first 5,000 doses of the covid vaccine, they were shocked. Then, when they saw who else had made the list, including administrators and […]

A rising wave of covid-19 cases in the south of England has been blamed on a new variant of the virus. The new strain, first detected in September, is now behind half the cases in the region. Genomic researchers have found that only does the variant have a lot of mutations, but several of the genetic alterations […]