Digital Gems

The country had more than 37 thousand new cases in 24 hours; health system is under pressure

When I worked at the social network, I saw how users in the Global South shared their accounts with shady middlemen. The practice erodes public trust and is corrupting civil discourse around the world.

Important immune cells survive in the bone marrow of people who were infected with the virus or were inoculated against it, new research suggests.

She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Heart disease can take a number of forms, but some types of heart disease, such as asymptomatic [...]

This Essay asserts that in the United States racial segregation has and continues to play a central evolutionary role in the inequalities we see reproduced and

Pandemic lockdowns ramped up home network usage. Deloitte’s Connectivity & Mobile Trends 2021 survey suggests that providers held up to the stress.

Mink in Denmark are not the only animals that could become reservoirs for the coronavirus to spread new mutations to people.

A better reason to upgrade than maxing that 5GB.

A newly identified coronavirus may not pose a serious threat, but the finding highlights the need to monitor animal viruses more proactively, scientists say.

The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members from all over the world for more than three years.

This phase of the pandemic, when adults can be vaccinated but young children cannot, is confusing for many families.

Unvaccinated people appear more comfortable traveling — and to more densely-populated places — than vaccinated people, according to data from Zeta Global.

Attempts to use artificial intelligence to diagnose and predict covid-19 have so far been unsuccessful, says Michael Roberts

These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them

City governments are embracing data-driven and algorithmic planning to tackle urban problems. Data-driven analytics have an unprecedented capacity to call urban futures into being. At the same time, ...

As COVID-19 surged, the social media company pointed users to all sorts of anti-vaccine and anti-mask groups

The pairing of massive data sets with processes—or algorithms—written in computer code to sort through, organize, extract, or mine them has made inroads in almost every major social institution. This article proposes a reading of the scholarly literature concerned with the social implications of this transformation. First, we discuss the rise of a new occupational class, which we call the coding elite. This group has consolidated power through their technical control over the digital means of production and by extracting labor from a newly marginalized or unpaid workforce, the cybertariat. Second, we show that the implementation of techniques of mathematical optimization across domains as varied as education, medicine, credit and finance, and criminal justice has intensified the dominance of actuarial logics of decision-making, potentially transforming pathways to social reproduction and mobility but also generating a pushback by those so governed. Third, we explore how the same pervasive algorithmic intermediation in digital communication is transforming the way people interact, associate, and think. We conclude by cautioning against the wildest promises of artificial intelligence but acknowledging the increasingly tight coupling between algorithmic processes, social structures, and subjectivities. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 47 is July 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Here’s how to opt out of Amazon’s Sidewalk network.

The Finite Element Method/Analysis is an incredibly powerful way to model the real world. By discretizing a continuous medium you can accurately simulate the...

On Tuesday, Well Being Trust, a national foundation that studies mental health and substance issues, released a new study that found alcohol consumption-related deaths have increased by 13% in Colorado.

Artificial intelligence (AI) badly needs a bump in speed to live up to potentials such as for autonomous vehicles; photonic integration may fill the breach.

The global study, which the WHO calls the first of its kind, found that more than 745,000 people died in 2016 from overwork that resulted in stroke and heart disease.

Crime concerns have sparked a new idea to add security cameras in San Francisco’s Castro District, but some community groups say cameras aren’t the answer and raise concerns about privacy.

The FBI's hate crime investigation into Long’s murder comes as a series of attacks have targeted Asian-Americans nationwide since the coronavirus pandemic began.

In recent years, health-tracking wearables have become ubiquitous. What if we could use these devices to track the health of our romantic relationships and prevent conflicts?