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The Top 100 AI Startups Out There Now, and What They’re Working On
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What Would Life on Mars Be Like? Millions of Us Are Getting a Taste
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 28)
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Researchers Push for Mass Blood Tests as a Covid-19 Strategy
Gregory Barber | Wired
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Clean Water Should Be a Right, Not a Privilege. These Entrepreneurs...
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Apocalyptic Fiction Helps Us Deal With the Anxiety of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Masked people standing six feet apart. Empty shelves in the supermarket. No children in sight outside the school during recess.
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Do We Have to Give Up Our Personal Freedoms to Beat Coronavirus?
In late December 2019 Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, sent a WeChat message to his medical school alumni group telling...
16 Ways Coronavirus May Change the Way We Look at the World
Crisis. A situation where danger and opportunity intersect. In the last several weeks, we’ve heard and learned a lot about the danger and suffering...
The Future of Aviation Will Be Greener and Faster Than Ever...
While flying cars may someday deliver on the Jetsons-like promise of buzzing around cities in robotic air taxis, the future of commercial aviation is...
A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be the First That Outwits Nature
It’s been grim news all around for COVID-19. Italy’s skyrocketing death toll has now risen above China’s. Countries are shutting borders. Massive cities in...
Scientists Engineered Neurons to Make Electrically Conductive Materials
Electricity plays a surprisingly powerful role in our bodies. While most people are aware that it plays a crucial role in carrying signals to...
After Coronavirus the World Will Never Be the Same. But Maybe, It Can Be...
Life has changed a lot in the past few days, weeks, or months, depending where you live. As efforts to contain the novel coronavirus...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 21)
MEDICINE
America Is Finally Testing for Coronavirus in Significant Volumes
Timothy B. Lee | Ars Technica
"On Thursday, the total number of coronavirus tests conducted in America...
Is Digital Learning Still Second Best?
As Covid-19 continues to spread, the world has gone digital on an unprecedented scale. Tens of thousands of employees are working from home, and...
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