Digital Gems

Hair transplants, not so much.

The stakes are high when it comes to using machine learning in government. Building these three key considerations into your work should help you prevent your project from causing unintended harm.

Ana Brandusescu  (McGill University) Michael Canares (StepUp Consulting) Silvana Fumega (ILDA)   In June 2020, we had the opportunity to join a discussion on open contracting and inclusion organised by ...

2nd Lt. Caron Nazario’s lawsuit shows policing’s systemic racial issues can’t just be boiled down to a few bad apples.

The app’s hits seem to emerge organically, but the success of artists like Megan Thee Stallion reveals a highly managed curation process.

To understand the difference between cookies, sessions and tokens we need to get back on the basics....

Colorado is at a COVID crossroads as vaccinations slow amid rising case numbers and hospitalizations.

The German company CureVac hopes its RNA vaccine will rival those made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. It could be ready next month.

The global population may peak in 2064.

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine update their recent

A decade of academic researchers and federal data reports show large and growing education inequality in America between the rich and poor.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey shows a substantial increase in homeschooling during COVID-19.

This week, Neurable announced its first product, 10 years in the making: headphones that analyze the brain’s EEG signals

Companies including HP, Microsoft and Unilever are calling for expanded voting access in the state after weeks of silence from national businesses on Republicans’ voting bills there.

Why Warhol's commercial art made waves, according to art critic Blake Gopnik.

How do Generation Z, Millennials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers use credit cards differently? We surveyed 2,000 Americans to find out.

Signal tried to buy "multi-variant targeted" ads on Instagram to show what parent company Facebook knows about its users.

Over all, the birthrate declined by 4 percent in 2020. Births were down most sharply in December, when babies conceived at the start of the health crisis would have been born.

Everything from your fridge to your tractor can change without your permission.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has fought for years to remove commanders from deciding assault cases. Now, more colleagues and a Pentagon panel agree.

Recently researchers proposed the term ‘Type-3-Diabetes’ for Alzheimer's disease (ad) because of the shared molecular and cellular features among Type…

Americans love sugar, Belgians love fat, and Germans love both.

Researchers have known for several years that being overweight and having Type 2 diabetes can increase the risk of developing [...]

Over the last two decades, the share of U.S. children under age 18 who live in a multigenerational household (with a grandparent and parent) has increased dramatically. Yet we do not know whether this increase is a recent phenomenon or a return to earlier levels of coresidence. Using data from the d …

These are America's deadliest stretches of pavement. Be careful out there.

A lumber frenzy has taken over homebuilding, Home Depot, and the internet.

The latest numbers surpass even the yearly tolls during the height of the opioid epidemic and mark a reversal of progress against addiction in recent years.

Previous research has found significant impacts of daylight and views on the cognitive function of office workers. In this study, we use scores on decision‐making performance to estimate the annual e...