The EU’s Privacy Protections Must Extend Beyond Its Borders
[ad_1] Technology plays a significant role in community building—especially for historically marginalized groups. Women use apps to track all sorts of things, including their periods (nearly a third of all…
Humans and AI Will Understand Each Other Better Than Ever
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence has promised much, but there has been something holding it back from being used successfully by billions of people: a frustrating struggle for humans and machines to…
New Materials Will Bring the Next Generation of Quantum Computers
[ad_1] Technologies enabled by quantum science will help researchers better understand the natural world and harness quantum phenomena to benefit society. They will transform health care, transportation, and communications, and…
An Online Safety Bill Is Coming to the UK—But It’s Not Enough
[ad_1] For the past ten years, the biggest companies in the tech industry have effectively been allowed to mark their own homework. They’ve protected their power through extensive lobbying while…
Digital Health Tools Need a New Benchmark
[ad_1] During the Covid-19 pandemic, digital health technologies transformed the way that many of us received health care, supercharging the uptake of digital tools such as telehealth platforms, mobile symptom…
AI Is Now Essential National Infrastructure
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, with projects like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s MINERVA, and DeepMind’s Gato all pushing new technological boundaries. Until now, national governments have been slow to…
Get Ready to Play ‘Guess the Viral Variant’
[ad_1] 2020 was the year of Covid lockdowns, 2021 the year of vaccines, and 2022 the year of worldwide reopening. 2023 will be the year of variant prediction. The first…
Transformative Businesses Are Born in Tough Times
[ad_1] It’s been a rough year for entrepreneurs. Funding has been tight, top-flight leaders have been harder to lure away from secure corporate jobs, and marketing and discretionary spending has…
El Niño Is Coming—and the World Isn’t Prepared
[ad_1] In 2023, the relentless increase in global heating will continue, bringing ever more disruptive weather that is the signature calling card of accelerating climate breakdown. According to NASA, 2022…
Direct-to-Consumer Is Dying. It’s Time for a New Paradigm
[ad_1] In the past decade, storied brands like meal-replacement Huel and men’s grooming company Harry’s built multibillion-dollar retail businesses by using social media and digital-first advertising to sell directly to…
Imagine the Possibilities of Speaking Fluent Machine
[ad_1] It’s difficult to reflect on the past year—or forecast the next—without a sense of wonder regarding the sheer magnitude of innovation taking place across the AI landscape. On a…
Stop Listening to Sleep Experts
[ad_1] Sleep is an essential part of our biology. Not getting enough of it harms our decision-making skills, our reasoning, even our social interactions. However, sleep has recently become yet…
To Rebuild Cities After War, Look to the Past
[ad_1] The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a human catastrophe on a scale not witnessed in Europe since the Second World War. Civilians have been targeted by the Russian military,…
Vans Can (and Should) Go Electric
[ad_1] For far too long, commercial vehicles remained an underserved sector of the electric vehicle market. Despite making up over 23 million vehicles worldwide and 82 percent of vehicle emissions,…
It’s Time to Focus on Reproductive Longevity Research
[ad_1] Women’s ovaries age prematurely, at more than twice the rate of other organs. Why that is remains a mystery to scientists, making it one of the most important unanswered…
Conscious Machines May Never Be Possible
[ad_1] In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became convinced that the AI program he’d been working on—LaMDA—had developed not only intelligence but also consciousness. LaMDA is an…
The Great Carbon Con Is Coming to an End
[ad_1] A year after COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in November 2021, the number of FTSE 100 companies vowing to achieve net zero emissions by 2050…
The Internet Is at Risk of Driving Women Away
[ad_1] Unless we act, 2023 will be the year that women leave the internet. Women already face enormous risks online. A Pew Research report of a US survey shows that one-third…
Embrace Diversity or Get Left Behind
[ad_1] In the summer of 2020, the death of George Floyd sparked global conversations about race and racial justice. It inspired soul-searching and a chorus of commitments to greater racial…
A New Discipline Pushes Back Against Sowing Doubt
[ad_1] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was founded in 1988 after scientists had spent decades raising the alarm about global warming. Thirty-five years later, there is effectively zero binding…
The Time for ‘Catalytic Government’ Is Now
[ad_1] In 1986, US President Ronald Reagan joked that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” In Britain,…
Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real
[ad_1] In 2022, an American dressed in his pajamas took down North Korea’s internet from his living room. Fortunately, there was no reprisal against the United States. But Kim Jong Un…
Storytelling Will Save the Earth
[ad_1] Picture the world 4.4°C hotter than preindustrial levels by the end of this century. That was one of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report predictions for scenarios with either unabated…
A New EU Rule Can Expose Greenwashers
[ad_1] In 2023, all companies listed on regulated markets in the European Union will begin applying the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), a new rule that will require them to…
Digital Eternity Is Just Around the Corner
[ad_1] It’s human nature to want to keep the memory of the deceased alive. Photography, for instance, has served as a powerful tool to help us do this. I’ve explored…