Omicron brings COVID-19 vaccine inequity ‘home to roost’

The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world’s desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines

Jared Golden’s vote against Build Back Better shows strength

Cynics accuse the U.S. Representative of grandstanding for voters in his red-leaning district, but his stance reflects courage, intelligence and integrity. 

NASA’s many science missions now include learning how to deflect killer asteroids

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force base in California, carrying a refrigerator-sized spacecraft that next September is intended to crash into a small asteroid.

What’s in the infrastructure bill

The $1 trillion public-works plan that President Joe Biden signed into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more

$1.2 trillion infrastructure plan offers lucrative target for fraud

Research shows there are ways to fight fraud, but the bill contains very little language aimed at doing so.

Partisan politics help obscure what the Build Back Better Act would build

Democrats squandered months engaging in ferocious infighting with moderates over what would be in the bill and how it would be paid for.

Governments see huge business potential in artificial intelligence, but ignore the downsides

Ireland is the latest country to make the mistake of thinking that algorithms by themselves are the route to untold prosperity.

Is an algorithmic real estate business inherently risky?

Or maybe Zillow was just really bad at it. Either way, Zillow doesn't want to bet the house on home flipping.

How artificial intelligence is hijacking art history

Breathless headlines of artificial intelligence discovering or restoring lost works of art ignore the fact that these machines rarely, if ever, reveal one secret or solve a single mystery.

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