Introduction The fight against the novel coronavirus [COVID-19], perhaps the worst scourge since the influenza epidemic following World War I, will take the best minds and equipment that the public and private sector can muster. This is why at the end of March, the...

The world faces a crisis of unprecedented proportions as COVID-19 (aka, coronavirus) rapidly spreads across the globe. As the numbers of infected rise, Facebook, Google, and other tech companies have come forward to lend their expertise and resources. Here are some of...

Robotics and AI bring up questions of ethics. The ethics of AI can be illustrated with the example of Microsoft’s Tay. In the 16 hours between its first message and its last, Tay sent over 96,000 tweets. Similar to Siri and Alexa, Tay was designed to provide an...