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Jan 11, 2021 • 11min
How Restaurants Retooled for Takeout—and Survival
Chefs tinkered with food chemistry, while dining apps reengineered logistics. Those changes will endure even after the pandemic is over.
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Jan 8, 2021 • 13min
Airlines’ Pandemic-Driven Cargo Business Will Keep Flying
As Covid-19 shut down air travel, the industry quickly pivoted to hauling more stuff. It won’t be pivoting away anytime soon.
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Jan 7, 2021 • 9min
The Newest Weapon Against Covid-19: AI That Speed-Reads Faxes
Local health departments rely on the old-fangled tech to track cases. A hastily developed machine-learning program gives it an assist.
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Jan 6, 2021 • 8min
Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy
A new antitrust case against Google alleges that the two companies made a deal to reduce competition in online advertising.Â
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Jan 5, 2021 • 9min
The ‘Healthy Building’ Surge Will Outlast the Pandemic
Because of Covid-19, developers are realizing that incorporating health concerns in a building's design isn’t just a luxury—it’s a necessity.
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Dec 31, 2020 • 9min
The Future of Social Media Is All Talk
From Clubhouse to Discord to Twitter, 2020 was all about giving people a voice online. Literally.
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Dec 30, 2020 • 11min
Conferences After Covid Will Be Shorter—and Smarter
In-person gatherings will resume eventually, but innovations born during the pandemic will remain.
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Dec 29, 2020 • 8min
Mass Transit Is in Jeopardy—and So Are Cities
Subways and buses are the lifeblood of dense cities like New York. If the system withers, the region becomes a less attractive place to live and work.Â
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Dec 24, 2020 • 9min
Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher's Firing
Timnit Gebru was one of seven authors on a study that examined prior research on training artificial intelligence models to understand language.
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Dec 23, 2020 • 7min
Chuck Yeager’s 1947 Flight Inspired Our Supersonic Ambitions
Yeager was the prototype of the American hero, a decorated fighter pilot immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. He died Monday at age 97.
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