The Miami Tower Collapse and Humanity’s Fight for the Future
In 2014, a team of behavioral scientists from Harvard and Yale tried to save the future—with a little game theory. Here’s the game part: The researchers broke up a big group of volunteers into...
Covid-19 “long haulers” are organizing online to study themselves
That Slack group has ballooned to more than 7,000 active members. “There was a huge group of patients who felt alone,” Lowenstein says. “They had no idea that they were not alone.”
There are subgroups...
Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today
The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies (studios) made stuff (TV shows and movies) and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it to consumers.
Now things are up for grabs:...
Brain-cell transplants are the newest experimental epilepsy treatment
“It’s early, but it could be restorative,” says Cory Nicholas, a former laboratory scientist who is the CEO of Neurona. “I call it activity balancing and repair.” Starting with a supply of stem cells...
There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association sent out separate but similar pleas on Monday for unvaccinated Americans to get vaccinated against the extremely contagious measles virus as vaccination...
I taught myself to lucid dream. You can too.
“You can make the argument that REM sleep is kind of a neglected resource,” says Benjamin Baird, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies human cognition. “What if we could use this...
Visual Studio Codespaces is moving to GitHub
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Codespaces, which provide cloud-hosted development environments on Microsoft Azure, will be incorporated into GitHub Codespaces, which provide hosted Visual Studio Code environments on GitHub. The current Azure-based offering will be retired...
The Download: open source insecurity, and gene editing plants
It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. It is one of the very first...
Microsoft’s Endorsement of Australia’s Proposal on Technology and the News – Microsoft On the...
Editor’s Note: Last week, Microsoft endorsed an Australian proposal that would require tech gatekeepers like Facebook and Google to share revenue with local independent news organizations. Microsoft’s endorsement followed a statement by Google that...
How Technology is Reshaping Wine Industry – Analytics Insight
We frequently hear about how growing advances in technology have been disrupting the music and book industries. There is one more industry that is also going through a technology transformation.
Despite having the potential...
