No, Joe Biden did not have a maskless birthday party last week.
The video of a crowd singing happy birthday to the president-elect was from 2019.Read More
Month: November 2020
How Misinformation ‘Superspreaders’ Seed False Election Theories
Researchers have found that a small group of social media accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of the false posts...
What We Like About Pandemic Shopping
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This year might have forever changed shopping for American consumers, store workers and retailers.Read More
‘I Forget About the World:’ Afghan Youth Find Escape in a Video Game
The game’s cultlike following in Afghanistan inhabits a real-life version of its violent virtual reality.Read More
Can an Algorithm Prevent Suicide?
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has turned to machine-learning to help identify vets at risk of taking their own lives.Read More
Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?
It might be possible, physicists say, but not anytime soon. And there’s no guarantee that we humans will understand the result.Read More
It’s hard for the average person to tell Dani, Lenore, and Bella apart: They all sport fashionably fuzzy brown coats and enjoy a lot...
Intel and Nvidia Chips Power a Chinese Surveillance System
Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities, raising questions about the tech industry’s...
Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment
The announcement that “Wonder Woman 1984” will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day is the clearest sign that streaming...
Lynn Conway was one of the company’s most promising young computer engineers but after confiding to supervisors that she was transgender, they fired her.Read...