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What If You Could Diagnose Endometriosis With a Tampon?
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What If You Could Diagnose Endometriosis With a Tampon?
Women’s health care is often treated as all about reproduction. Some ‘femtech’ startups are exploring the innovations that get overlooked…
MIT Technology Review
Feb 19
An A.I. That Writes Convincing Prose Risks Mass-Producing Fake News
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An A.I. That Writes Convincing Prose Risks Mass-Producing Fake News
Fed with billions of words, this algorithm dreams up convincing articles and shows how A.I. could power disinformation campaigns.
MIT Technology Review
Feb 14
Police Across the U.S. Are Training Crime-Predicting A.I.s on Falsified Data
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Police Across the U.S. Are Training Crime-Predicting A.I.s on Falsified Data
A new report shows how supposedly objective systems can perpetuate corrupt policing practices
MIT Technology Review
Feb 13
This Is Why A.I. Has Yet to Reshape Most Businesses
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This Is Why A.I. Has Yet to Reshape Most Businesses
For many companies, deploying A.I. is slower and more expensive than it might seem
MIT Technology Review
Feb 13
Climate Activists With Cheap Balloons Could Create a DIY Geoengineering Nightmare
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Climate Activists With Cheap Balloons Could Create a DIY Geoengineering Nightmare
That scenario poses new questions about the ability to regulate the technology
MIT Technology Review
Feb 13
A Cryptocurrency Company’s Covert Bug Fix Has Confusing Legal Implications
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A Cryptocurrency Company’s Covert Bug Fix Has Confusing Legal Implications
The Zcash episode illustrates how we’re still struggling to define basic characteristics of cryptocurrency networks
MIT Technology Review
Feb 12
More Than 26 Million People Have Taken an At-Home Ancestry Test
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More Than 26 Million People Have Taken an At-Home Ancestry Test
The genetic genie is out of the bottle. And it’s not going back.
MIT Technology Review
Feb 12
The Real Reason America Is Scared of Huawei: Internet-Connected Everything
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The Real Reason America Is Scared of Huawei: Internet-Connected Everything
Five things you need to know about 5G, the next generation of wireless tech that’s fueling tensions between the US and China
MIT Technology Review
Feb 8
The Green New Deal Has Been Released. Here Are 4 Key Tech Takeaways.
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The Green New Deal Has Been Released. Here Are 4 Key Tech Takeaways.
The proposal is ambitious, wide-ranging, and somewhat pragmatic about technology’s role. But whether it will ever see the light of day is…
MIT Technology Review
Feb 7
The Reunion: A New Science-Fiction Story About Surveillance in China
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The Reunion: A New Science-Fiction Story About Surveillance in China
Technology is making people unhinged and violent. Can an algorithm stop them?
MIT Technology Review
Feb 6
This Is How A.I. Bias Really Happens — and Why It’s so Hard to Fix
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This Is How A.I. Bias Really Happens — and Why It’s so Hard to Fix
Bias can creep in at many stages of the deep-learning process, and the standard practices in computer science aren’t designed to detect it
MIT Technology Review
Feb 4
Explainer: What Is a Quantum Computer?
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Explainer: What Is a Quantum Computer?
How it works, why it’s so powerful, and where it’s likely to be most useful first
MIT Technology Review
Jan 31
Making Face Recognition Less Biased Doesn’t Make It Less Scary
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Making Face Recognition Less Biased Doesn’t Make It Less Scary
Three new studies propose ways to make algorithms better at identifying people in different demographic groups. But without regulation…
MIT Technology Review
Jan 30
Open-Source Maps Should Help Driverless Cars Navigate Our Cities More Safely
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Open-Source Maps Should Help Driverless Cars Navigate Our Cities More Safely
Swedish startup Mapillary is compiling a huge database of roadside objects such as signs and markings to help driverless vehicles get…
MIT Technology Review
Jan 24
We Won’t Use CRISPR to Make Super-Smart Babies — But Only Because We Can’t
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We Won’t Use CRISPR to Make Super-Smart Babies — But Only Because We Can’t
Gene experts speculate that our worst gene-editing fears won’t come true because they are too complex for us to pull them off
MIT Technology Review
Jan 24
Will People Ditch Cash for Cryptocurrency? Japan Is About to Find Out.
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Will People Ditch Cash for Cryptocurrency? Japan Is About to Find Out.
The world’s largest experiment in using blockchain-based networks to pay for things is about to begin
MIT Technology Review
Jan 22
A.I. Is Sending People to Jail — and Getting It Wrong
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A.I. Is Sending People to Jail — and Getting It Wrong
Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past
MIT Technology Review
Jan 21
Giving Algorithms a Sense of Uncertainty Could Make Them More Ethical
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Giving Algorithms a Sense of Uncertainty Could Make Them More Ethical
Algorithms are best at pursuing a single mathematical objective — but humans often want multiple incompatible things
MIT Technology Review
Jan 18
We’d Have More Quantum Computers If It Weren’t So Hard to Find the Damn Cables
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We’d Have More Quantum Computers If It Weren’t So Hard to Find the Damn Cables
Quantum machines will deliver the next great leap forward in computing, but researchers building them can’t easily get some of the exotic…
MIT Technology Review
Jan 17
Cheaper A.I. for Everyone Is the Promise With Intel and Facebook’s New Chip
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Cheaper A.I. for Everyone Is the Promise With Intel and Facebook’s New Chip
Companies hoping to use artificial intelligence should benefit from more efficient chip designs
MIT Technology Review
Jan 14
Hate Lawyers? Can’t Afford One? Blockchain Smart Contracts Are Here to Help.
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Hate Lawyers? Can’t Afford One? Blockchain Smart Contracts Are Here to Help.
Mainstream online legal services are getting serious about using crypto to automate bits of what they do — and lower the bar to entry for…
MIT Technology Review
Jan 11
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