September 17, 2021
(The Guardian) – Facebook has served “abortion reversal” adverts 18.4m times since January 2020, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), promoting an “unproven, unethical” and “dangerous” procedure. Google shows the adverts on more than … Read More
September 16, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Scores of internal Facebook documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show employees raising alarms about how its platforms are used in some developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. They also … Read More
September 16, 2021
Hastings Center Report (vol. 51, no. 1, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Heart without Life: Artificial Organs and the Lived Body” by Mary Jean Walker “Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid?19” … Read More
September 14, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – For the past three years, Facebook has been conducting studies into how its photo-sharing app affects its millions of young users. Repeatedly, the company’s researchers found that Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of them, … Read More
September 13, 2021
(Discover) – While cyberattacks on medical providers began cropping up around the early 2000s, the field’s ransomware breaches nearly double in 2020. In perhaps the most highly publicized example, the 2017 WannaCry ransomware hack on the U.K.’s National Health Service … Read More
September 13, 2021
(Wired) – A team at Brown University has developed a system that uses dozens of silicon microchips to record and transmit brain activity to a computer. Dubbed “neurograins,” the chips—each about the size of a grain of salt—are designed to … Read More
September 13, 2021
(Wired) – First came the statements from reproductive organizations. Then came the tech companies. The day after the US Supreme Court decided not to block a law in Texas banning most abortions after six weeks, Dallas-based Match Group, which owns … Read More
September 10, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – For Dr. Hyman and many other physicians and their patients, the pandemic triggered a disruption in one of medicine’s most common encounters—and, through virtual visits, provided an early glimpse of the physical of the future. An … Read More
September 10, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Few things are as annoying—or in the pandemic era as frightening—as the sound of a cough. But that same sound could help save lives. Researchers around the world are trying to turn the humble cough into … Read More
September 9, 2021
(The Conversation) – Undergraduate training for data scientists – dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review – falls short in preparing students for the ethical use of data science, our new study found. Data science … Read More
