Coronavirus
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AI imaging database for COVID-19 diagnosis provided to UK hospitals
The National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID) includes more than 40,000 CT scans, MRIs, and X-rays that can be used ...
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New self-supervised AI models scan X-rays to predict prognosis of COVID-19 patients
Researchers from Facebook and NYU Langone Health say their system forecasts COVID-19 mortality more accurately than radiologists. ...
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A psychologist's guide to changing the minds of anti-maskers
While the world is eagerly waiting for COVID-19 vaccines to bring an end to the pandemic, wearing a mask to help prevent ...
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Adios pandemic pals
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. This is our final issue. Hola pandemic pals, The time has come for us to say goodbye. The curtain's falling and ...
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The risks of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for patients with a history of severe allergies
Two people in the United Kingdom have experienced an allergic reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This led ...
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Do you still need a vaccine if you’ve already had COVID-19?
If we are ever to return to some semblance of normality, then the world’s population needs to be immune to SARS-CoV-2, ...
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How gene editing could protect us from future pandemics
Hollywood's blockbusters such as X-men, Gattaca, and Jurassic World have explored the intriguing concept of “germline genome ...
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How webcam travel is giving tourism a lifeline during the pandemic
During the first UK lockdown, I received an email from my son’s primary school with a list of webcams we might enjoy having ...
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The COVID-19 vaccine is on its way — but don’t ditch your mask just yet
The UK has become the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for widespread use. The government has ordered ...
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Maths has revealed how the COVID-19 vaccine should be distributed
How well we distribute and administer a COVID-19 vaccine will have massive health, social, and economic ramifications. So ...
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4 ways to respond to vaccine skeptics on social media
For most of the 20th century, more than 60,000 people died in the US from polio, diphtheria, and small pox each year. In ...
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It's not just you — work psychologist confirms COVID-19 made jobs suckier
Almost everyone's jobs became more demanding as a result of the pandemic. But despite difficulties, there is a silver lining. ...
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The COVID-19 vaccine was developed in less than a year — and that's totally fine
I’m a clinical trials geek. I keep hearing people talk about the seven to ten years it takes to make a vaccine and how ...
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How COVID and an unexpected 17-hour time difference forced us to master asynchronous work
When a 'one week visit' to Australia from San Francisco turned into a 8 month stay, this startup needed to rethink its strategy. ...
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About that vaccine
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
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Here's what you need to know about Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine
US drug manufacturer Pfizer, in partnership with German medical research company BioNTech, today announced its ongoing ...
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These are the world’s most ‘walkable’ cities
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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The science of why lockdown barely affected global temperatures
Countries across the world took unprecedented action in the first few months of 2020 to control the spread of COVID-19. At ...
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Why contact-tracing apps haven’t lived up to expectations
During the first wave of COVID-19, researchers at Oxford University built a computer model that suggested if 56% of the UK ...
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COVID-19 will probably become endemic – here's what that means
We can’t say with any certainty what the future of COVID-19 is. But based on our experience with other infections, there ...
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7 behaviors that may predict your company’s odds of survival
This article was originally published by Built In. The old way of working is dead. Its death throes began decades ago, and ...
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Is mobility tech killing traditional auto shows?
This article was written by Ross Douglas, Founder & CEO, Autonomy, on The Urban Mobility Daily, the content site of ...
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How Snapchat, Dropbox, and HubSpot helped employees adjust to COVID-19
Did you know we’re hosting a discussion on work productivity, culture, and talent at TNW2020 this year, featuring Snapchat, ...
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Here's why people refuse to use COVID-19 tracing apps
For about a month now, I’ve had the government’s official COVID Alert app installed on my phone. It is active and monitoring. ...
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Google Maps now has a COVID-19 layer because 2020
Google Maps added a COVID-19 layer to help keep track of coronavirus case counts in different areas. You can also see if ...
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Google Shopping now lets you browse products in a Maps-like interface
Google is rolling out a new way to browse and shop for products based on location — sort of like a fusion between Maps ...
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This AI spots local COVID-19 outbreaks before they've spun out of control
A new machine learning-based tool identifies potential COVID-19 outbreaks in different US counties by estimating how long ...
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How very tiny technologies are helping tackle the global pandemic
The world-altering coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic is thought to be just 60 nanometres to 120 nanometres in size. ...
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Russia published the results of its COVID-19 vaccine — and they don’t live up to the hype
President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it ...
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Here are the 3 biggest trends shaping the future of work
Did you know Tamar Yehoshua, Slack's Chief Product Officer, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on ...
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I just got a COVID-19 test — who now knows I got it?
Anytime a person gets tested for COVID-19, it creates a data point public health officials can use to track the spread ...
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How COVID-19 is accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels
Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism,” wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in ...
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Coronavirus proved you don't need to be a doctor to help society
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the deep-seated problems of how and why we all work. It has shown how many of us perform ...
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Coronavirus face masks could create an environmental disaster that will last generations
Face coverings are now a legal requirement in many public spaces around the world. But even before they became compulsory, ...
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How your company can limit its liability for US data collection lawsuits
This article was originally published by Built In. As families and schools across the country adjust to the new normal ...
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How I turned my summer job counting cars into a smart city company
The genesis of Miovision grew out of a summer job I had, doing traffic counts. Sitting in a chair in the hot sun, I realized ...
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Filtration system creates 'personal air space' for public transport passengers
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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Coronavirus has forced escooter providers and cities to work out their differences
Until recently, the relationship between micromobility providers and cities has been, at worst, rocky – characterized ...
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UK e-scooter legalization: Everything you need to know
Electric scooters will become legal on roads in England, Scotland and Wales from Saturday July 4 2020 if obtained through ...
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Some UK bus riders will get Facebook DMs to warn if transport is too busy as lockdown lifts
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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How data scientists are linking AI and data analysis to find coronavirus cure
In the last three months, it feels as if all of us have become armchair data scientists. As scientists across the globe race ...
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Here’s how public transport in European cities must adapt to ‘the new normal’
Mobility. It is the glue that binds cities, societies, and civilizations together. What was just two months ago a necessity ...
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How mobility startups can help authorities fix public transport after the pandemic
Mobility has been impacted the world over due to the COVID 19 crisis. From public transport, to micromobility, to individual ...
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3 possible scenarios for restoring public transport after COVID-19
The Dutch bike-transit system should be our guide to not only encourage public transport use, but to also make it more efficient ...
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Adobe’s top tips to adapt your commerce strategy during the pandemic
Making clear and factual statements, meeting customer commitments, and ensuring business and operational continuity is more ...
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Bezos and Zuckerberg worth $60B more in two months, thanks to COVID-19
It's true. Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ballmer — the trio of billionaires from Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft — are balling ...
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Cannabis is more effective at preventing and treating COVID-19 than hydroxychloroquine
A team of scientists from Canada have identified at least 13 strains of cannabis sativa they believe can aid in the prevention ...
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Google and Apple launch COVID-19 contact-tracing tech
Google and Apple have launched the first phase of their COVID-19 contact-tracing tech, an Exposure Notification API for ...
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Qatar forces residents to install its coronavirus tracker — or face the consequences
Qatar is making it mandatory for all citizens and residents to install its coronavirus tracker when going out — or face ...
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Freedom oranges and avocado toast
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
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Sprint will disappear this summer as T-Mobile takes over
T-Mobile and Sprint officially became one last month, and the two networks have already begun merging their networks. We've ...
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Using 'personalized AI' to end coronavirus lockdown is a stupid, cruel idea
A trio of AI and business experts from INSEAD, a prestigious business school, recently penned a lengthy article in the Harvard ...
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ACE2: The molecule that helps coronavirus invade your cells
The more we learn about the science behind COVID-19, the more we are beginning to understand the vital role a single molecule ...
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Gamer Juice
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
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This AI tool predicts who's got COVID-19 without testing
A new AI diagnostic tool trained on crowdsourced data from the COVID Symptom Study app predicts who's got COVID-19 without ...
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Small errors in coronavirus testing might lead to surprisingly big problems
New antibody tests might be game-changers in keeping the public safe from infection while restarting the economy. Giving ...
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COVID-19 is preventing offline environmental activism — but it's thriving online
The environmental movement’s past recently collided with its future. April 22 marked the 50th anniversary of the first ...
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Here's why we probably won't see a COVID-19 vaccine in 2020
Donald Trump may be “very confident” we will have a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year, but the rest of us should ...
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Body-worn sensors to predict COVID-19 infections in US military hospitals
The Pentagon is investing in body-worn sensors that identify who's infected with COVID-19 -- and who's likely to catch it ...
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How quantum computers can save us from the coronavirus
A team of researchers at Penn State University recently began exploring high-powered solutions for drug discovery in hopes ...
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Are we there yet?
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
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States are suspending public records access due to COVID-19
On March 4, Hawaii had no confirmed cases of COVID-19, but officials had started to take action in anticipation of an ...
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Researchers tested 47 old drugs that might treat the coronavirus — these were the results
The more researchers know about how the coronavirus attaches, invades and hijacks human cells, the more effective the search ...
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Drug discovery might be the best use of AI to tackle the pandemic
BenevolentAI's discovery of a potential coronavirus treatment show's that drug discovery is one application of AI that's ...
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Over a third of coronavirus patients show neurological symptoms, study reports
As case numbers of COVID-19 continue to rise around the world, we are starting to see an increasing number of reports of ...
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Ride-share companies hit again as Lyft lays off 900 employees, furloughs hundreds more
Ride-sharing service Lyft has said that it will be making 988 staff members redundant, and a further 288 will be furloughed. ...