August 8, 2024
(Ars Technica) – According to documents seen by the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter, Google worked on a marketing project for Meta that was designed to target 13- to 17-year-old YouTube users with adverts that promoted its … Read More
August 7, 2024
(Sydney Morning Herald) – The Tokyo Olympics will forever be remembered as the COVID Games, an extraordinary feat of public health ingenuity and Japanese forbearance that enabled the world’s largest sporting event to be staged within a massive, temporary quarantine … Read More
August 7, 2024
(New York Times) – A national survey found promising signs that key mental health measures for teens, especially girls, have improved since the depths of the pandemic. Fifty-three percent of girls reported extreme depressive symptoms in 2023, down from 57 … Read More
August 7, 2024
(New York Times) – The herbicide, used widely on crops including broccoli and onions, can cause low birth weight and impaired brain development, regulators said. In a move not seen for almost 40 years, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday … Read More
August 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Millions of times each year, insurers send nurses into the homes of Medicare recipients to look them over, run tests and ask dozens of questions. The nurses aren’t there to treat anyone. They are gathering new … Read More
August 6, 2024
(New York Times) – Out of a prewar total of about 20,000 health workers, 500 have been killed in the war, according to the W.H.O., and more than 300 are in Israeli detention, Gaza’s health ministry says. Based on estimates … Read More
August 6, 2024
(PBS) – As Team USA continues to dominate at the Olympics, the most decorated American athlete in track and field history, Allyson Felix, is in Paris with a different goal in mind. She wants to change the narrative around mothers … Read More
August 5, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Participants in studies of the psychedelic, which is up for U.S. approval, tell WSJ they felt pressure to report positive outcomes. Studies being used to decide whether the U.S. should authorize an ecstasy-based drug for traumatized … Read More
August 5, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – The allure of AI lies in its ability to identify our desires and serve them up to us whenever and however we wish. AI has no preferences or personality of its own, instead reflecting whatever users … Read More
August 5, 2024
(Reuters) – Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability to use digital devices by thinking alone, according to the startup’s owner Elon Musk. Neuralink is in the process of testing … Read More
August 5, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years OpenAI has a method to reliably detect when someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay or research … Read More
August 5, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Ethicists say a “digital psychological twin” could help doctors and family members make decisions for people who can’t speak themselves. End-of-life decisions can be extremely upsetting for surrogates, the people who have to make those calls … Read More
August 5, 2024
(The New Yorker) – A mysterious neurological condition makes faces look grotesque—and sheds new light on the inner workings of the brain. In May, 2021, Duchaine interviewed Werbeloff via Zoom. Had Werbeloff suffered any traumatic brain injuries? (No.) Did he … Read More
August 5, 2024
(The Guardian) – Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights. The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied … Read More
August 1, 2024
(ABC News) – The Senate passed two key pieces of legislation aimed at keeping children safe on the internet Tuesday afternoon, marking a major step in Congress’ ongoing effort to regulate massive tech companies. The two bills, which beef up … Read More
August 1, 2024
(New York Times) – It’s probably not selfishness, experts say. Even young adults who want children see an increasing number of obstacles. Notably, studies of the reasons behind the fertility decline don’t reveal a dramatic shift in the desire to … Read More
August 1, 2024
(New York Times) – With years of fractures, surgeries, hardware and pain, Olympians can list their injuries as readily as their achievements. Wear and tear naturally degrades human bodies, even the most talented ones. But performing at the elite level, … Read More
August 1, 2024
(BBC) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says it is “unfairly caught” in a row between the US and China, with their geopolitical tensions spilling onto the Olympic stage. China’s top swimmers have been in the spotlight after a slew … Read More
July 31, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – As Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sought to privately battle cancer, federal prosecutors said this week, her health records reached a dark corner of the internet where users floated antisemitic conspiracy theories. Her information, … Read More
July 31, 2024
(Slate) – Companies like Folx and Plume have branded themselves as beacons of community and pride. But their model may not be as revolutionary as it seems. Folx is just one entry in a growing list of digital health companies … Read More
July 31, 2024
(New York Times) – Kevin Hall, a senior investigator at the N.I.H. who is leading the trial, said that there is a “mountain of epidemiological data” linking ultraprocessed foods to poor health — including 32 health concerns like heart disease, … Read More
July 31, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Instagram and Facebook, already under federal investigation, still run ads for illegal drugs. Meta Platforms is running ads on Facebook and Instagram that steer users to online marketplaces for illegal drugs, months after The Wall Street … Read More
July 31, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – “Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow. For firms like OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic to achieve their ambitious goals, AI … Read More
July 31, 2024
(Wired) – OpenAI’s newest model is “a data hoover on steroids,” says one expert—but there are still ways to use it while minimizing risk. On May 13, OpenAI unveiled the latest iteration of its AI chatbot, ChatGPT-4o. The newest version … Read More
July 31, 2024
(CNN) – A small clinical trial suggests that drugs like Ozempic could potentially be used not just for diabetes and weight loss but to protect the brain, slowing the rate at which people with Alzheimer’s disease lose their ability to … Read More
