Slowing the spread
From the choir rehearsal in Washington to family gatherings in Chicago, numerous covid-19 “superspreading” events have seen one person infect many others. MIT researchers...
The Into the Impossible Podcast Honors Arthur C. Clarke
Physicist Brian Keating is the codirector of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination at UC San Diego. The center was established...
Teachers are sacrificing student privacy to stop cheating
As the fall semester began at the University of Nevada, Reno, psychology professor Mark Lescroart faced an increasingly common dilemma for teachers:...
Unlocking opportunity through cross-industry collaboration – The Australian Financial Review
In fact, many were initially focused on protecting their intellectual property so they can maintain a cost advantage over their competitors. But now as...
‘The time is now’ for Australia to harness new vaccine technology – Sydney Morning...
The area of mRNA technology is still new and involves injecting recipients with genetic material — “messenger RNA” with the viral protein, in turn...
GitHub.com dumps non-essential cookies
GitHub has removed all non-essential cookies from GitHub.com and its subdomains. The move is intended to protect privacy and prioritize the developer experience, the...
40 more states have targeted Google with its third antitrust lawsuit in two months
Sally Hubbard, the director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, explained that the “divide and conquer strategy” is due to resource constraints,...
Russia’s Hack Wasn’t Cyberwar. That Complicates US Strategy
The list of US government agencies compromised in the SolarWinds hack continues to expand, with reports of infiltrations at Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, and...
Google’s three antitrust cases, briefly explained
Two antitrust lawsuits have been filed against Google in two days. That makes a total of three antitrust cases against the search giant, including...
Microsoft seeks to build trust in third-party .NET libraries
Lamenting that many developers in the .NET community are reluctant to use libraries not built by Microsoft, Microsoft wants to help .NET developers make...
