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There are dozens of sites that show you how coronavirus is spreading around the world. Here is our ranking.

Thousands in coronavirus lockdown will be monitored for symptoms—and tracked to make sure they stay at home and don’t become “super spreaders.”

When knitting site Ravelry banned all pro-Trump content it caused a schism in the community—but it also shone a spotlight on how women are using niche sites to politicize.

Hackers working for Kim Jong-un have become experts at covering their tracks on the Bitcoin blockchain.

The first testing kits from the Centers for Disease Control had a simple fault, and red tape prevented other labs from creating their own.

He doesn’t plan to spend nearly as much, but he’s striving to build a broader coalition.

Genetic data shows that countries are getting hit with multiple introductions of the virus.

Researchers managed to amplify nerve signals to the point where they can be translated into movements.

Fraudsters use fake accounts to spread spam, phishing links, or malware. Now Facebook is revealing details on how it uses AI to fight back.

Colleagues reflect on the life and work of the renowned physicist, who died last week.

Google is creating AI-powered robots that navigate without human intervention—a prerequisite to being useful in the real world.

Thousands ordered masks that let them unlock their phones during outbreaks. But this viral art project doesn’t just work with surveillance technology—it works against it, too.

One of the 20th century’s foremost physicists died today.

Some of the smartest people I know are getting ready for a crisis—including me.

Adversarial attacks against the technique that powers game-playing AIs and could control self-driving cars shows it may be less robust than we thought.

But it restricts some of the tools we may need to rapidly cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

Texas’s wind-powered digital gold rush might redraw the global map of the Bitcoin mining network.

NASA’s Artemis program is heralding a moon rush, and nobody—from SpaceX to Russia—wants to be left behind.

Super-cheap DNA sequencing could boost cancer screening, prenatal tests, and research into population genetics.

In recent years, advancements in socially-assistive robots have opened up a promising new way for more affordable and personalized care.

A fiction story about the future

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the elite of the elite gather to hatch plans for the future of the planet. I asked some of this year’s participants to tell me one thing they think will happen by 2030 that most people don’t realize.

Everywhere from business to medicine to the climate, forecasting the future is a complex and absolutely critical job. So how do you do it—and what comes next?

In a race to cure his daughter, a Google programmer enters the world of hyper-personalized drugs.

Predictions of any importance are never only about saying what will happen. Right or wrong, they also shape the course of events.

And wherever humans go, they’ll be taking satellite constellations with them to moon and Mars.

These are the big trends of the coming decades that need to be considered for any new technologies to be successful.

An introduction to our March/April 2020 special issue on prediction

Here’s a list of promising drugs being tried on people infected with the virus.

These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching

The app is another entrant in the new age of intimate social media. Can it actually make you feel closer to someone?

The first results from the mission depict a complex Martian interior and geology, but raise new questions about the planet’s history.

It has fueled prosperity of the last 50 years. But the end is now in sight.