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**Business, Spoken**

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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Miami’s Mayor Woos Techies. What Does He Need to Succeed? Feb 09, 2021

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If anywhere could use innovation, it’s Miami—one of the country’s most unequal, environmentally vulnerable cities.

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Why Instacart Is Laying Off Workers As Deliveries Soar Feb 08, 2021

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Big grocery chains relied on app-based delivery companies at the start of the pandemic. Now grocers’ priorities have shifted.

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New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care Feb 05, 2021

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Machine learning programs trained with patient reports, rather than doctors', find problems that doctors miss—especially in Black people.

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These Doctors Are Using AI to Screen for Breast Cancer Feb 04, 2021

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During the pandemic, thousands of women have skipped scans and check-ups. So physicians tapped an algorithm to predict those at the highest risk.

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This AI Could Go From ‘Art’ to Steering a Self-Driving Car Feb 03, 2021

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DALL-E drew laughs for creating images of a daikon radish in a tutu. But it builds on an important advance in computer vision with serious applications.

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Facebook’s Oversight Board Has Spoken. But It Hasn’t Solved Much Feb 02, 2021

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The board’s first content moderation decisions show how impossible its task—and Facebook’s—really is.

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Janet Yellen Will Consider Limiting the Use of Cryptocurrency Feb 01, 2021

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During her confirmation hearing, the Treasury nominee said that blockchain-based financial networks are “a particular concern.”

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The Art and Science of Boarding an Airplane in a Pandemic Jan 29, 2021

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Researchers and airlines that obsessed over efficiency have spent the past year worrying about safety too.

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The US Needs More Foreign Artificial Intelligence Know-How Jan 28, 2021

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Jason Furman, a top economic adviser to President Obama, says good ideas come from everywhere—but Trump has dissuaded tech workers from coming to the US.

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AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government Jan 27, 2021

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A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn’t distinguish them from those penned by humans.

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