E-Library & File BoxUsing machine learning to track the pandemic’s impact on mental health
Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.
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UK’s COVID-19 risk prediction algorithm had a great start, but experts fear it won’t last
The model accurately identified individuals at risk of severe outcomes during the first wave
Researchers say Oura rings can predict COVID-19 symptoms three days early
One of the challenges to curbing the spread of COVID-19 is that asymptomatic individuals, or carriers, can spread the virus before they realize they are infected.
China claims quantum supremacy with satellite test
This would achieve the Holy Grail that all cryptographers have been dreaming of for thousands of years.
This smart ring uses ai to spot COVID-19 — before symptoms begin
By Dan Robitzski
Imagine if hospital workers could be relieved days before they became contagious.
Life on the Planet Mercury? ‘It’s Not Completely Nuts’
A new explanation for the rocky world’s jumbled landscape opens a possibility that it could have had ingredients for habitability. The study theorizes that the “chaotic terrain” on Mercury’s surface was formed by activity underneath the planet’s barren, scorched exterior, and not a collision.
What Climate Change Can Teach Us About Fighting the Coronavirus
By Somini Sengupta
“Alarming levels of inaction.” That is what the World Health Organization said Wednesday about the global response to coronavirus.
White House turns to Big Tech to fix coronavirus blunders while classifying previous conversations
By Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco
What are Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft et al supposed to do? We have some ideas
Faced with a growing barrage of criticism over how it has handled the outbreak of the coronavirus, the White House has turned to tech giants to help it tackle the pandemic.
