The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The US might be in the middle of a covid wave right nowWithout even realizing, due to a lack of testing. (Bloomberg $)+ Infections keep rising and rising in Shanghai, despite a local lockdown. (SCMP)+ Residents trapped indoors are […]

Tagatose, a “rare sugar”, is nearly as sweet as table sugar but has around half the calories.PUBCHEM Before that e-mail, Rogers had proposed splitting CFB, leaving Zhang his sci-fi bio-battery and sugar-to-hydrogen concepts, while Rogers would commercialize the nearer-term rare sugars. Zhang dismissed the idea, and to no one’s surprise, he did not renew Rogers’s […]

Kavitha Prasad, VP & GM, Datacenter, AI and Cloud Execution and Strategy, Intel Corporation Kavitha Prasad leads the team responsible for developing Intel’s strategy for next-generation data center solutions, cloud architecture solutions, and deployment systems. She also leads Intel’s overall AI strategy and execution efforts. Kavitha re-joined Intel in 2021 and has held several engineering […]

Sameena Shah, Managing Director, J.P.Morgan AI Research, JPMorgan Chase Sameena Shah is a Managing Director, Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital & Platform Services, where she and the team work across the firm to create Artificial Intelligence technologies for business transformation and growth. She is a highly accomplished leader with over 20 years of educational and […]

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A new study upends everything we know about particle physicsA particle called the W boson is much heavier than previously thought. (Quanta)+ Physicists are stressed out by it. (CNET) 2 The war in Ukraine has spread to Google MapsAfter Putin invaded, some […]

Still, as a rare attempt to probe Africa’s death toll with clinical data, the BU team’s work has had a significant impact, outside experts say. Before its first paper, says Watson, who’s worked on several studies related to covid-19 in low-income settings, there was a “fairly equal balance” within academia between those who believed there […]