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The news: The European Union’s digital vaccine passport system went live in seven countries yesterday, ahead of a full launch for all 27member states on
THE US WORRIED ABOUT VACCINE TOURISTS. NOW IT’S Such is the case with New York City. In early-May, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a proposal to offer visitors the J&J vaccine at popular tourist sites such as Central Park and Times Square WE REVIEWED THREE AT-HOME COVID-19 TESTS. HERE'S WHATAUTHOR: ANTONIOREGALADO
We reviewed three at-home covid tests. The results were mixed. Over-the-counter coronavirus tests are finally available in the US. Some are more accurate and SOME VACCINATED PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING COVID. HERE’S WHY Tens of millions of people in the United States have now been fully vaccinated against covid-19. These people are seeing friends, eating out, and—in rare cases—getting infected. COVID-19 IMMUNITY LIKELY LASTS FOR YEARS Covid-19 patients who recovered from the disease still have robust immunity from the coronavirus eight months after infection, according to a new study. The result is WHY MIXING VACCINES COULD HELP BOOST IMMUNITY A dozen covid-19 vaccines are now being used around the world. Most require two doses, and health officials have warned against mixing and matching: the vaccines, they argue, should be MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWLOGINTHE CORONAVIRUS ISSUEMIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWABOUTTHE SPACE ISSUEIF YOU'RE AN MIT ALUM Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology More than half of all people live in cities. This issue explores how technology is shaping what cities are, and what they will become. Our SEVEN EU COUNTRIES JUST GOT A DIGITAL VACCINE PASSPORTAUTHOR:CHARLOTTE JEE
The news: The European Union’s digital vaccine passport system went live in seven countries yesterday, ahead of a full launch for all 27member states on
THE US WORRIED ABOUT VACCINE TOURISTS. NOW IT’S Such is the case with New York City. In early-May, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a proposal to offer visitors the J&J vaccine at popular tourist sites such as Central Park and Times Square WE REVIEWED THREE AT-HOME COVID-19 TESTS. HERE'S WHATAUTHOR: ANTONIOREGALADO
We reviewed three at-home covid tests. The results were mixed. Over-the-counter coronavirus tests are finally available in the US. Some are more accurate and SOME VACCINATED PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING COVID. HERE’S WHY Tens of millions of people in the United States have now been fully vaccinated against covid-19. These people are seeing friends, eating out, and—in rare cases—getting infected. COVID-19 IMMUNITY LIKELY LASTS FOR YEARS Covid-19 patients who recovered from the disease still have robust immunity from the coronavirus eight months after infection, according to a new study. The result is WHY MIXING VACCINES COULD HELP BOOST IMMUNITY A dozen covid-19 vaccines are now being used around the world. Most require two doses, and health officials have warned against mixing and matching: the vaccines, they argue, should be WHAT MAKES THE DELTA COVID-19 VARIANT MORE INFECTIOUS The variant, which first emerged in India, is already the dominant strain in the UK. Researchers are working to uncover the secrets of its success. Covid cases are BUILDING THE ENGINE THAT DRIVES DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Digital transformation has long been a well-established strategic imperative for organizations globally. The effects of covid-19—which have transformed the world into a THE COMING PRODUCTIVITY BOOM The last 15 years have been tough times for many Americans, but there are now encouraging signs of a turnaround. Productivity growth, a key TIKTOK CHANGED THE SHAPE OF SOME PEOPLE'S FACES WITHOUT On the surface it was an odd, temporary issue that affected some users and not others. But it was also forcibly changing people’s appearance—an important glitch for an app that is used by 10 BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES 2021 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021. Sierra & Lenny. by. the Editors. February 24, 2021. This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important WHY IS IT SO HARD TO REVIEW THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINE The future of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine remains in limbo after an advisory panel recommended taking a deeper look intoreports of
BUILDING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE DATA AND AI ORGANIZATION CxOs and boards recognize that their organization’s ability to generate actionable insights from data, often in real-time, is of the highest strategic importance. If there were any doubts on WORST TECHNOLOGY FAILURES OF 2020 The biggest technology failures of 2020. The covid pandemic made this the year we counted on technology more than ever. Here's how it failedus. This was a
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Our mission is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influential, and trustworthy journalism. Subscribe to support our journalism THE US WORRIED ABOUT VACCINE TOURISTS. NOW IT’S Such is the case with New York City. In early-May, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a proposal to offer visitors the J&J vaccine at popular tourist sites such as Central Park and Times Square WE REVIEWED THREE AT-HOME COVID-19 TESTS. HERE'S WHAT We reviewed three at-home covid tests. The results were mixed. Over-the-counter coronavirus tests are finally available in the US. Some are more accurate and SOME VACCINATED PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING COVID. HERE’S WHYAUTHOR:CASSANDRA WILLYARD
Tens of millions of people in the United States have now been fully vaccinated against covid-19. These people are seeing friends, eating out, and—in rare cases—getting infected. COVID-19 IMMUNITY LIKELY LASTS FOR YEARS Covid-19 patients who recovered from the disease still have robust immunity from the coronavirus eight months after infection, according to a new study. The result is WHY IS IT SO HARD TO REVIEW THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINEAUTHOR: CATFERGUSON
The future of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine remains in limbo after an advisory panel recommended taking a deeper look intoreports of
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Our mission is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influential, and trustworthy journalism. Subscribe to support our journalism THE US WORRIED ABOUT VACCINE TOURISTS. NOW IT’S Such is the case with New York City. In early-May, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a proposal to offer visitors the J&J vaccine at popular tourist sites such as Central Park and Times Square WE REVIEWED THREE AT-HOME COVID-19 TESTS. HERE'S WHAT We reviewed three at-home covid tests. The results were mixed. Over-the-counter coronavirus tests are finally available in the US. Some are more accurate and SOME VACCINATED PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING COVID. HERE’S WHYAUTHOR:CASSANDRA WILLYARD
Tens of millions of people in the United States have now been fully vaccinated against covid-19. These people are seeing friends, eating out, and—in rare cases—getting infected. COVID-19 IMMUNITY LIKELY LASTS FOR YEARS Covid-19 patients who recovered from the disease still have robust immunity from the coronavirus eight months after infection, according to a new study. The result is WHY IS IT SO HARD TO REVIEW THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINEAUTHOR: CATFERGUSON
The future of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine remains in limbo after an advisory panel recommended taking a deeper look intoreports of
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Our mission is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influential, and trustworthy journalism. COVID IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE US PUBLIC HEALTH EQUITY 1 day ago · There’s no quick fix for getting everyone vaccinated. But some cities and states can show how to close long-standing equity gaps. Long before the first covid-19 vaccines went into arms, certain ACCOUNT - TECHNOLOGY REVIEW Evidence is growing that in some people covid infections are producing autoantibodies targeting the body’s organs. If true, it could mean years of lingering sickness and misery for many. 01 SOME VACCINATED PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING COVID. HERE’S WHY Tens of millions of people in the United States have now been fully vaccinated against covid-19. These people are seeing friends, eating out, and—in rare cases—getting infected. AI STILL SUCKS AT MODERATING HATE SPEECH But scientists are getting better at measuring where each system fails. For all of the recent advances in language AI technology, it still struggles with one of the most basic applications. In a THE BROOD X CICADAS ARE HERE After 17 years lying dormant, billions of cicadas are emerging across the US for a three-week insect carnival. And citizen scientists are mapping the brood with their phones. A few weeks ago NASA IS ENDING ITS 30-YEAR VENUS DROUGHT WITH TWO NEW DAVINCI+ and VERITAS will attempt to answer how and why the second planet from the sun became the hellscape it is today. The last timeNASA launched
WHY THE RANSOMWARE CRISIS SUDDENLY FEELS SO RELENTLESS Attacks on major companies and critical infrastructure have panicked the US, but the roots of the problem go back years. Just weeks after a major American oil pipeline was struck by hackers, a CHINA’S TIANANMEN ANNIVERSARY CRACKDOWNS REACH FAR BEYOND Tactics used by Beijing to suppress mentions of pro-democracy protests are increasingly spilling over and affecting users around the world. The 24-hour vigil started just after 8 a.m. US EasternBLUE WATER THINKING
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Tens of millions of people in the United States have now been fully vaccinated against covid-19. These people are seeing friends, eating out, and—in rare cases—getting infected. COVID-19 IMMUNITY LIKELY LASTS FOR YEARS Covid-19 patients who recovered from the disease still have robust immunity from the coronavirus eight months after infection, accordingto a new study.
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO REVIEW THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINEAUTHOR: CATFERGUSON
The future of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine remains in limbo after an advisory panel recommended taking a deeper look intoreports of
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Drugs that try to treat ailments by targeting a natural aging process in the body have shown promise. The first wave of a new class of anti-aging drugs have begun human testing. These drugs won REMOTE WORKERS WANT TO RE-CREATE THOSE WATERCOOLER MOMENTS Malone isn’t the only one who thinks this type of spontaneous casual interaction can be saved. As the pandemic turns traditional office culture upside down, workers are finding creative ways to MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWLOGINTHE CORONAVIRUS ISSUEMIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWABOUTTHE SPACE ISSUEIF YOU'RE AN MIT ALUM Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology More than half of all people live in cities. This issue explores how technology is shaping what cities are, and what they will become. Our SEVEN EU COUNTRIES JUST GOT A DIGITAL VACCINE PASSPORT The news: The European Union’s digital vaccine passport system went live in seven countries yesterday, ahead of a full launch for all 27member states on
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Our mission is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influential, and trustworthy journalism. Subscribe to support our journalism THE US WORRIED ABOUT VACCINE TOURISTS. NOW IT’S Like many vaccine tourists, “Alex” doesn’t want you to know his real name. The British expat arrived on a red-eye flight from his home in Nairobi, Kenya, at New York’s John F. Kennedy WE REVIEWED THREE AT-HOME COVID-19 TESTS. HERE'S WHAT Accuracy issues. The issue with home tests is accuracy, which is between 85% and 95% for detecting covid. That is, they catch about nine of every 10 infections, a metric called the test’s SOME VACCINATED PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING COVID. HERE’S WHYAUTHOR:CASSANDRA WILLYARD
Tens of millions of people in the United States have now been fully vaccinated against covid-19. These people are seeing friends, eating out, and—in rare cases—getting infected. COVID-19 IMMUNITY LIKELY LASTS FOR YEARS Covid-19 patients who recovered from the disease still have robust immunity from the coronavirus eight months after infection, accordingto a new study.
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The future of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine remains in limbo after an advisory panel recommended taking a deeper look intoreports of
ANTI-AGING DRUGS
Drugs that try to treat ailments by targeting a natural aging process in the body have shown promise. The first wave of a new class of anti-aging drugs have begun human testing. These drugs won REMOTE WORKERS WANT TO RE-CREATE THOSE WATERCOOLER MOMENTS Malone isn’t the only one who thinks this type of spontaneous casual interaction can be saved. As the pandemic turns traditional office culture upside down, workers are finding creative ways toLOGIN
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THE BROOD X CICADAS ARE HERE After 17 years lying dormant, billions of cicadas are emerging across the US for a three-week insect carnival. And citizen scientists are mapping the brood with their phones. A few weeks ago WHY THE RANSOMWARE CRISIS SUDDENLY FEELS SO RELENTLESS Attacks on major companies and critical infrastructure have panicked the US, but the roots of the problem go back years. Just weeks after a major American oil pipeline was struck by hackers, a CHINA’S TIANANMEN ANNIVERSARY CRACKDOWNS REACH FAR BEYOND Tactics used by Beijing to suppress mentions of pro-democracy protests are increasingly spilling over and affecting users around the world. The 24-hour vigil started just after 8 a.m. US EasternBLUE WATER THINKING
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THE UN SAYS A NEW COMPUTER SIMULATION TOOL COULD BOOST GLOBALDEVELOPMENT
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The news: The United Nations is endorsing a computer simulation tool that it believes will help governments tackle the world’s biggest problems, from gender inequality to climate change. Global challenges: In 2015, UN member states signed up for a set of 17 sustainable-development goals that are due to be reached by 2030. Theyinclude things…
THE NEWS: The United Nations is endorsing a computer simulation tool that it believes will help governments tackle the world’s biggest problems, from gender inequality to climate change. GLOBAL CHALLENGES: In 2015, UN member states signed up for a set of 17 sustainable-development goals that are due to be reached by 2030. They include things like “zero poverty,” “no hunger,” and “affordable and clean energy.” Ambitious is an understatement. HOW COULD THE TOOL HELP? Called Policy Priority Inference (PPI), the software uses agent-based modeling to predict what would happen if policymakers spent money on one project rather than another. This makes it easier for governments to choose which policies to prioritize, according to the UN and the Alan Turing Institute in London, which is also supporting the project. The tool is being tested by authorities in Mexico and Uruguay, with Colombia next in line. The UK’s Department for International Development is interested too. HOW DOES IT WORK? PPI draws on economics, behavioral science, and network theory to simulate a “government,” which allocates a pot of money, and “bureaucrats,” who spend what they are given on different projects. The model, which was built by economists in London and Mexico, takes in a range of data, such as government budgets, the impact spending has had on particular policies in the past, the effectiveness of a country’s legal system, estimated losses due to known inefficiencies, and so on. It then suggests which policies are worth investing in most. The idea is that the tool will help policymakers anticipate the ripple effects of their decision-making. For example, investing in education may alleviate gender inequality, but investing in GDP growth may not be good for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? PPI should be a step up in terms of analyzing the potential effects of different policy choices. But it’s got limitations. Models are only as good as the data put into them, for example, and some governments will be more willing than others to provide it. Simulations also work with a massively simplified version of reality, which affects accuracy. But with a decade to go and huge gaps in progress on most of the UN’s goals, the agency—and the world—can use all the help it can get.ARTICLE META
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The news: Twitter placed a warning label on a tweet from US President Donald Trump early on May 29, saying that it violated the platform’s rules against “glorifying violence.” In the tweet, sent at 12:53 a.m., the president called Minneapolis protesters demonstrating against the death of a black man in police custody “THUGS,” threatened military… THE NEWS: Twitter placed a warning label on a tweetfrom
US President Donald Trump early on May 29, saying that it violated the platform’s rules against “glorifying violence.” In the tweet, sent at 12:53 a.m., the president called Minneapolis protestersdemonstrating
against the death of a black man in police custody “THUGS,” threatened military intervention, and said that “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” SECOND TIME IN A WEEK: Twitter added a fact-checking label to two of Trump’s tweets about mail-in voting earlier this week, marking the first time the platform had enforced its rules about misinformation against the president. Yesterday, Trump responded by signing an executive order targeting the legal protections that keep social media companies from getting sued for the content on their platforms. WHAT THE WARNING LABEL DOES: While Trump’s tweets about voting are still freely visible on the platform, Twitter used a different approach to his overnight tweet. To see the tweet itself, users must first click past a label warning that it violates Twitter’s rules against glorifying violence. And users can’t reply to or like the tweet. Twitter has a “public interest exception”for
rule-breaking tweets from large accounts run by government officials that, the company believes, should not be removed from the platform because of their newsworthiness. “WHEN THE LOOTING STARTS, THE SHOOTING STARTS.” Twitter said in a thread from its comms accountthat the warning
label was added to Trump’s tweet because of “the historical context of the last line, its connection to violence, and the risk it could inspire similar actions today.” In 1967, Miami police chief Walter E. Headley used the phrasewhile
promoting his policing tactics against “young hoodlums,” angering civil rights leaders. In the same interview, Headley also said, “We don’t mind being accused of police brutality ... they haven’t seenanything yet.”
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a 1996 federal law that gives internet companies a great deal of legal protection from decisions about user content and moderation. Hours after Twitter took action against his Minneapolis tweet, the official White House Twitter accountreposted
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An experimental tool helps researchers wade through the overwhelming amount of coronavirus literature to check whether emerging studies follow scientific consensus. Why it matters: Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a flood of relevant preprints and papers, produced by people with varying degrees of expertise and vetted through varying degrees of… An experimental tool helps researchers wade through the overwhelming amount of coronavirus literature to check whether emerging studies follow scientific consensus. WHY IT MATTERS: Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a flood of relevant preprints and papers, produced by people with varying degrees of expertise and vetted through varying degrees of peer review. This has made it challenging for researchers trying to advance their understanding of the virus to sort scientific fact fromfiction.
HOW IT WORKS: The SciFact tool, developed by the Seattle-based research nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), is designed to help with this process. Type a scientific claim into its search bar—say, “hypertension is a comorbidity for covid” (translation: hypertension can cause complications for covid patients)—and it will populate a feed with relevant papers, labeled as either supporting or refuting the assertion. It also displays the abstracts of each paper and highlights the specific sentences within them that provide the most relevant evidence for assessing the claim. HOW IT WAS BUILT: The system is built on top of a neural network called VeriSci . It was trained on an existing fact-checking data set compiled from Wikipedia and fine-tuned on a new scientific fact-checking data set containing 1,409 scientific claims, accompanied by 5,183 abstracts. Researchers at AI2 curated the latter data set using Semantic Scholar , a publicly available database of scientific papers, which the nonprofit launched and has maintained since 2015. They randomly selected a sample of papers from a few dozen well-regarded journals in the life and medical sciences, including Cell, Nature, and JAMA. They then extracted the sentences in the papers that included citations and asked expert annotators to rewrite them into scientific claims that could be corroborated or contradicted by the literature. For every claim, the annotators then read through the abstracts of the corresponding citations and identified the sentences containing supporting or refuting evidence. HOW IT PERFORMS: When the researchers tested VeriSci on scientific claims related to covid-19, they found that it retrieved relevant papers and accurately labeled them 23 out of 36 times. Despite this imperfect performance, the result still outperforms the same neural network trained on other existing fact-checking databases and serves as the first known proof of concept for how an AI-based system for scientific fact-checking can be possible. In the future, some of the tool’s errors could be reduced in part through use of more training data; others will need further advancements in natural-languageunderstanding.
WHAT IT SHOULD AND SHOULDN’T BE USED FOR: SciFact is meant to help scientists researching covid-19 to quickly check their hypotheses or emerging claims against existing scientific literature. It is not meant to dispel the kinds of misinformation or conspiracy theories that circulate on social media (e.g., that covid-19 is a bioweapon) or opinion-based statements (e.g., that the government should require people to stand six feet apart to slow the spread of the virus). Given the tool’s experimental nature, experts should still be sure to read the abstracts rather than rely solely on the “support” and “refute” labels. The researchers also note that the tool doesn’t check the legitimacy of the papers retrieved, so experts shouldexercise judgment.
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The news: Two days after Twitter added fact-checking labels to US President Donald Trump’s misleading tweets about mail-in voting, the president has signed an executive order aimed at weakening protections for social-media companies that moderate user content. Why: Trump has promoted a long-running belief among conservatives that social-media companies are biased against their political views,… THE NEWS: Two days after Twitter added fact-checking labels to US President Donald Trump's misleading tweets about mail-in voting, the president has signed an executive order aimed at weakening protections for social-media companies that moderate user content. WHY: Trump has promoted a long-running belief among conservatives that social-media companies are biased against their political views, despite a lack of solid evidence to support that claim. In the past, his administration has raised the possibility of regulating or punishing these companies. WHAT IT MEANS: The order targets Section 230 of the CommunicationsDecency Act
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a 1996 federal law that gives internet companies a great deal of autonomy over how they moderate content and shields them from legal liability for user-created content. According to an earlier draft,
Trump's order could prompt the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider how the law is applied. Trump said the order calls for regulations to ensure that "social-media companies that engage in censoring or any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield." It would also, he said, direct federal agencies to ban "taxpayer dollars" from "social-media companies that suppress free speech." The version of the order Trump actually signed was not immediately available. WHAT TRUMP SAID: Trump's remarks rehashed some of the president's grievances with social-media companies, particularly Twitter. He claimed he would shut down Twitter, but that there were legal hurdles, and added that he would close his @realDonaldTrump account—which has 80 million followers—"in a heartbeat" if media coverage were more favorable to him. He also indicated that his administration wouldpursue legislation
in Congress, and expected the order to trigger lawsuits. WILL IT WORK? Experts have noted that while there's actually some bipartisan support for updating Section 230 to better reflect our current realities, Trump's executive order warrants a great deal ofskepticism
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Kate Klonick, a law professor at St. John's University School of Law in New York, told NPR that the order was essentially "political theater," and that it "flies in the face of 25 years of judicial precedent."ARTICLE META
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