Technology update

We already knew that biased data and biased algorithms skew automated decision-making in a way that disadvantages low-income and minority...

In the spring of 2020, the first versions of covid-19 exposure notification systems were released to the public. These systems...

The risk of being hospitalized with the Delta covid-19 variant is roughly double that associated with the original Alpha strain,...

Timnit Gebru never thought a scientific paper would cause her so much trouble.  In 2020, as the co-lead of Google’s...

Covid cases are on the rise in England, and a fast-spreading variant may be to blame. B.1.617.2, which now goes...

On the first hot weekend of the summer, Richard Knapp put up a sign outside Mother’s Ruin, a bar tucked...

You can see the faint stubble coming in on his upper lip, the wrinkles on his forehead, the blemishes on...

Clinical trials have never been more in the public eye than in the past year, as the world watched the...

Angela Mitchell still remembers the night she nearly died. It was almost one year ago in July. Mitchell—who turns 60...

A few weeks ago, Michelle Watson woke up to a deafening, steadily oscillating screech. “What the heck is that noise?”...