April 12, 2021
(Tech Crunch) – WeRide, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup that recently raised $310 million, has received a permit to test driverless vehicles on public roads in San Jose, California. WeRide is the seventh company, following AutoX, Baidu, Cruise, Nuro Waymo … Read More
April 9, 2021
(The Verge) – Issues related to suicide and self-harm touch nearly every digital platform in some way. The internet is increasingly where people search, discuss, and seek support for mental health issues. But according to new research from the Stanford … Read More
April 2, 2021
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 46, no. 5, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “How Should We Think About Clinical Data Ownership?” by Angela Ballantyne “Medically Assisted Gender Affirmation: When Children and Parents Disagree” by Samuel Dubin, … Read More
April 1, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – The Chinese government’s activity on Twitter and Facebook over its policies toward ethnic minorities in Xinjiang reached an all-time high last year, as Beijing sought to portray its approach, including use of widespread internment camps and … Read More
March 30, 2021
(The New Yorker) – The idea of an intelligence explosion was revived in 1993, by the author and computer scientist Vernor Vinge, who called it “the singularity,” and the idea has since achieved some popularity among technologists and philosophers. Books … Read More
March 26, 2021
(The Guardian) – The mice were no bigger than sunflower seeds, but what they represent is enormous: the breakthrough brings us one step closer to reproduction without pregnancy. The division of labour in gestation is the most intractable imbalance between … Read More
March 25, 2021
(BBC) – The need to get a Covid vaccine certificate before you travel across Europe this summer is closer to becoming reality. EU leaders are discussing the introduction of a “Digital Green Certificate” in time for Europe’s summer, but some … Read More
March 24, 2021
(Associated Press) – Hackers in China used fake Facebook accounts and impostor websites to try to break into the computers and smartphones of Uyghur Muslims, the social network said Wednesday. The company said the sophisticated, covert operation targeted Uyghur activists, … Read More
March 23, 2021
(The Conversation) – You might soon have an additional app on your phone: a digital vaccination passport that allows people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel, enter business establishments and attend events. Not having the app could deny … Read More
March 22, 2021
Genetics in Medicine (vol. 22, no. 2, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Therapeutic Approaches in Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) Involving N-Linked Glycosylation: An Update” by Jan Verheijen, Shawn Tahata and Eva Morava “Perspectives of US … Read More
