LONG READ: DeepMind, proteins and artificial intelligence … and the ascendance of natural language processing

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It solved a 50-year problem in biology. But it’s done so much more. A short history of Deepmind.

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Yet more reasons why data privacy is “dead on arrival”

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BOOK REVIEW: Beware the illusion of certainty – it can be weaponized

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Defining our “data culture” : some notes from Asia on battling COVID, and abandoning notions of privacy

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The news from Pfizer and Moderna, no matter how promising, is only the beginning and not the end, of the story. COVID-19 is far from over.

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Facebook, Twitter and other data troves: the art of social-science data crunching

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That sucking sound you hear is Google using personal data for undisclosed reasons without explicit user permission

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What have we learned in our 8 months in the Age of Rona? A lot, but also nothing.

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What the U.S. election taught us about technology, and our attempts to regulate it

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