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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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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, ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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. ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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. ...

  • Darren Chait

• About that vaccine

  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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, ...

  • Cities Today

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Built In

• 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 ...

  • Urban Mobility Daily

• 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, ...

  • David Canellis

• 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. ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 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 ...

  • Mix

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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. ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Sara Yin

• 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 ...

  • The Markup

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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, ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Built In

• 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 ...

  • Urban Mobility Daily

• 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, ...

  • Cities Today

• 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 ...

  • Cities Today

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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, ...

  • Cities Today

• 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 ...

  • Jori Hamilton

• 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 ...

  • Urban Mobility Daily

• 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 ...

  • Urban Mobility Daily

• 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 ...

  • Urban Mobility Daily

• 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 ...

  • Errol Denger

• 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 ...

  • David Canellis

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Mix

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• Gamer Juice

  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • The Markup

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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. ...

  • Matthew Beedham