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Feb 9, 2021 • 10min
Miami’s Mayor Woos Techies. What Does He Need to Succeed?
If anywhere could use innovation, it’s Miami—one of the country’s most unequal, environmentally vulnerable cities.
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Feb 8, 2021 • 8min
Why Instacart Is Laying Off Workers As Deliveries Soar
Big grocery chains relied on app-based delivery companies at the start of the pandemic. Now grocers’ priorities have shifted.
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Feb 5, 2021 • 6min
New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care
Machine learning programs trained with patient reports, rather than doctors', find problems that doctors miss—especially in Black people.
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Feb 4, 2021 • 5min
These Doctors Are Using AI to Screen for Breast Cancer
During the pandemic, thousands of women have skipped scans and check-ups. So physicians tapped an algorithm to predict those at the highest risk.
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Feb 3, 2021 • 6min
This AI Could Go From ‘Art’ to Steering a Self-Driving Car
DALL-E drew laughs for creating images of a daikon radish in a tutu. But it builds on an important advance in computer vision with serious applications.
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Feb 2, 2021 • 6min
Facebook’s Oversight Board Has Spoken. But It Hasn’t Solved Much
The board’s first content moderation decisions show how impossible its task—and Facebook’s—really is.
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Feb 1, 2021 • 3min
Janet Yellen Will Consider Limiting the Use of Cryptocurrency
During her confirmation hearing, the Treasury nominee said that blockchain-based financial networks are “a particular concern.”
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Jan 29, 2021 • 6min
The Art and Science of Boarding an Airplane in a Pandemic
Researchers and airlines that obsessed over efficiency have spent the past year worrying about safety too.
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Jan 28, 2021 • 8min
The US Needs More Foreign Artificial Intelligence Know-How
Jason Furman, a top economic adviser to President Obama, says good ideas come from everywhere—but Trump has dissuaded tech workers from coming to the US.
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Jan 27, 2021 • 7min
AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government
A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn’t distinguish them from those penned by humans.
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