This COVID Christmas, Australians are turning to technology to keep traditions alive – ABC...
For many, tomorrow's COVID Christmas will be a time of muddling through video calls and figuring out ways to see friends and family who...
The Apple car, briefly explained
The long-rumored, long-dead Apple car may have been resurrected. Reuters reports that Apple is planning to start production of its own line of electric...
Why some countries suspended, replaced, or relaunched their covid apps
This spring, while the US government was spinning its wheels on an official covid-19 response, countries around the world were rolling out national contact...
Why we’re posting about misinformation more than ever
It was hard to avoid misinformation online in 2020. A pandemic and a polarized presidential election had the internet swirling with everything from...
What AlphaGo Can Teach Us About How People Learn
We are, of course, looking at ways to apply MuZero to real world problems, and there are some encouraging initial results. To give a...
The stimulus bill includes a “historic” provision to expand broadband internet access
Tucked inside the $900 billion Covid-19 stimulus bill are some pretty big broadband provisions aimed at getting more Americans the internet, at a time...
Don’t panic about the latest coronavirus mutations, say drug companies
All viruses undergo random mutations to their genetic material. Any change that offers an advantage—like making the virus infect more hosts or resist certain...
The year we gave up on privacy
As a digital privacy reporter, I try to avoid sites and services that invade my privacy, collect my data, and track my actions....
What happens when you open source everything?
Chef co-founder Adam Jacob argues you should follow his lead and go all in on open source. Not open source “Community” with paid-for “Enterprise”...
Art has been brutalized by tech’s giants. How can it survive?
Such efforts and proposals are admirable. They are also plainly incommensurate with the scale of the overall problem. That is not their fault, nor...
