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on (#51TP0)
From today, messages identified as “highly forwarded†can be forwarded only to a single person instead of five.
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MIT Technology Review
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| Updated | 2025-11-21 18:15 |
by Will Heaven on (#51VHX)
The news: With many of us now relying on video calls for face-to-face interaction, choppy connections are more frustrating than ever. An artificial intelligence that mimics an individual speaker’s way of talking can smooth over the cracks by filling in small gaps with snippets of generated speech. Developed by a team at Google, the technology…
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on (#51QYD)
The messy network of labs rushing to increase testing capacity has some big problems, but they’re fixable.
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by Tate Ryan-Mosley on (#51VHY)
Jason Bae, an urgent-care physician in Northern California, has been seeing covid-19 patients for almost a month. When he first started ordering coronavirus tests, around the week of March 9, his health-care system was quoting a 48- to 72-hour turnaround time from their third-party laboratory. But “even from the very beginning, a lot of tests…
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on (#51P4A)
The coronavirus pandemic has turned back the clock to a kinder time on the web, before the novelty of virtual connection wore off. Will it last?
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by Tate Ryan-Mosley on (#51VJ0)
Google researchers are using imitation learning to teach autonomous robots how to pace, spin, and move in more agile ways. What they did: Using a data set of motion capture data recorded from various sensors attached to a dog, the researchers taught a quadruped robot named Laikago several different movements that are hard to achieve through…
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by Tate Ryan-Mosley on (#51VJ1)
Update: this episode has ended. You can watch here. To register, click this link just before 4 p.m. ET. We also recommend you download or enable the Zoom application. You will be muted when you enter the Q&A. In this episode of Radio Corona, Gideon Lichfield, editor in chief of MIT Technology Review, speaks with Tomas Pueyo, whose Medium…
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on (#51MCX)
Hundreds of researchers attempted to predict children’s and families’ outcomes, using 15 years of data. None were able to do so with meaningful accuracy.
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on (#51MCZ)
Calendars cleared by coronavirus are filling up with virtual happy hours, and some people are starting to feel exhausted.
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on (#51M27)
There is a lot of hype around the potential for antibody testing to help get us back outside sooner rather than later. Here’s how it works.
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on (#51JKB)
Families in indefinite lockdown are turning to Asana and Trello to run their households.
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on (#51JKD)
That could lend more weight to the argument in favor of wearing a mask while in public.
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on (#51J04)
Zoom has rapidly become the video-conferencing platform of choice as people stay home during the coronavirus pandemic. Now it’s under pressure.
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on (#51GW7)
But it’s not clear whether unusual partnerships and shared designs will be enough to stay ahead of escalating coronavirus infections.
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on (#51G10)
We spoke to Ian Haydon, who will soon be one of 45 people who will get an experimental covid-19 vaccine in Seattle.
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on (#51FD9)
Kids are getting a crash course on texting and social media with “technology on training wheels.â€
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on (#51F4S)
Home delivery services are experiencing unprecedented growth in demand as people stay home.
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on (#51BWP)
Digital manufacturers are stepping in to crank out nasal swabs, ventilator parts, and more as critical supply chains fail.
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on (#51BK4)
The field is in disagreement about where it should go and why.
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on (#51BK6)
There’s a gap in vital data that could help us understand the Covid-19 outbreak, but unfortunately, it’s been misinterpreted and co-opted by policymakers.
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on (#51BKA)
Watch our visualization to see how confirmed cases outside China have exploded in recent weeks.
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on (#51AC3)
The record unemployment numbers only hint at the crisis facing many with no work.
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on (#519V3)
A proposal for a new kind of government-run payment platform didn’t make it into the US Congress’s coronavirus relief plan. But it won’t be the last we hear of the idea.
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on (#5190M)
Quarantines and lockdowns are forcing us to relearn how to date—and figure out how to have sex without touching.
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on (#5183C)
The data collected from more than 750,000 people could help us understand why people’s experiences of coronavirus vary so wildly.
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on (#517TA)
The country is woefully behind where it should be, and that’s going to make it much harder to track and curtail the coronavirus’s spread.
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on (#517TC)
It won’t be pleasant, but it could help prove quickly if a Covid-19 vaccine works.
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on (#517G2)
MIT Technology Review’s energy editor explains the new science of extreme weather event attribution.
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on (#516WV)
An MIT team is racing to publish designs it hopes could help as the escalating pandemic strains supplies of the machines.
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on (#516EY)
An eventual coronavirus recovery package should include clean-energy funding and supportive policies, but first we need to make sure people can obtain health care, buy food, and remain in their homes.
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on (#516F0)
A study found traces on the Diamond Princess cruise ship 17 days after it emptied of passengers.
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on (#5164C)
“Co-watching†is how we’ll be socializing for the next few weeks at least.
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on (#5164E)
COVID-Net could help scientists develop an AI tool that can pick up telltale signs.
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on (#5164G)
The crisis has governments and companies scrambling to decide when it’s appropriate to lift data privacy protections and AI ethics guidelines.
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on (#515J4)
Health authorities around the world are using chatbots to keep people informed.
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on (#514PG)
Ensuring that Americans can vote despite the pandemic requires clever planning, immense resources—and a lot of old technology.
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on (#514CT)
The first medical reports are in, but there’s no silver bullet for coronavirus infection yet.
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on (#510SQ)
Regulatory changes and anxiety heightened by isolation are leading to a boom in use of mental health apps and teletherapy—but are they good enough?
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on (#510SS)
The UK government has just released the scientific advice that’s been shaping its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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on (#50ZF5)
Battling the spread of Covid-19 is going to be a long-haul effort. Here’s what you asked us.
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on (#50Z74)
The latest economic downturn has exposed the 10-year-old cryptocurrency as just another financial asset. For now.
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