Nov 12, 2024 · The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have shifted decision-making power away from nurses and on to the robots. Michael Kennedy, who works as a neuro-intensive care nurse in San Diego, believes AI could destroy nurses’ intuition, skills, and training. The result being that patients are left

Apr 15, 2022 · which describes Spiegelman’s process and explores the public reception of the text. Photo by Kirk McKoy/Getty Images. In MetaMaus, Spiegelman reflected on the different cultural responses to Maus he saw while promoting the book and conducting interviews for it at various points in time.

Current Disinformation. Truth is under attack as our information system splinters. Ever more platforms and voices means ever more noise and alternative facts.

4 days ago · There are still questions over whether DeepSeek had access to more computing power than it is admitting. Scale AI chief executive Alexandr Wong said in a recent interview that the Chinese company had access to thousands more of the highest grade chips than people know about, despite U.S. export controls. What’s clear, though, is that Altman didn’t anticipate that a competitor would simply ...

4 days ago · With all the current talk of an American oligarchy, I’ve been wondering what we now mean when we say “oligarch.” The word comes from the Ancient Greek oligos, meaning “few”, via Latin and mediaeval French, but its modern meaning in English owes more to 1990s Russians, who adopted the word to describe the architects of what David Hoffman, in his book “The Oligarchs”, called “a ...

Oct 22, 2024 · Tech platforms run from Silicon Valley, and the handful of men behind them, often seem and act invincible. But a legal battle in Kenya is setting an important precedent for disrupting the Big Tech’s strategy of obscuring and deflecting attention from the effect their platforms have on democracy and human rights around the world.

Jan 22, 2025 · A day after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission said it was creating a new task force to create new rules for the crypto industry, thus starting the process to reverse a crackdown on crypto companies under …

Jan 15, 2025 · The more things change, the more they stay the same, as someone once wrote a long time ago. Having taken a hiatus to write a book (the manuscript is now in editing), I was hoping to find upon my return that my pet peeves had been solved and that in this new year I would branch out into new and exciting spheres of optimistic enquiry.

Nov 18, 2024 · Of course there will be chaos. But isn’t that the plan?It certainly seems so now that Trump’s proposed cabinet features an alleged Russian “asset” as national intelligence chief, an alleged sexual predator as attorney general, thus leading a department that recently investigated him for sex-trafficking, and as health secretary an anti …

Jan 14, 2025 · The consequences of this decision will play out globally, and few understand those consequences better than Maria Ressa. The founder of Rappler, was among the first to document how social media platforms enabled the rise of authoritarianism in her native Philippines, where Facebook became so dominant that it “rewired our people’s brains.”