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MIT Technology Review
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| Updated | 2025-04-21 03:17 |
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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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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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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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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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“Co-watching†is how we’ll be socializing for the next few weeks at least.
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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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on (#50YHY)
All of the new cases yesterday were imported, Chinese officials said.
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Several initial analyses of transmission data suggest the pandemic could ease up in summer. But that doesn’t reduce the need for measures like social distancing.
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on (#50XEW)
Manufacturers need fast-track regulatory approvals and government contracts. STAT.
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on (#50XEY)
A test can see if a person has ever been infected, even if they had no symptoms.
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Francois Balloux, a computational epidemiologist who worked on an influential new coronavirus model, on the trade-offs that have to be made.
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