A system based on AI will search the retina for early signs of disease The different parts of a health-care system have different focuses. A hospital’s dementia unit keeps records of patients’ mental abilities. The stroke unit monitors blood flow in the brain.…
Why is the ear worth so much less than the eye? Until recently the ear was a part of the body relatively unconquered by commerce. The neck long ago fell to the necklace, the ruff and the tie. The wrist surrendered to the bracelet and the watch. The eye sold ou…
Companies far beyond the Golden State will feel the impact of its new privacy law History does not repeat but sometimes it rhymes. So, it seems, do efforts to protect netizens’ privacy. The European Union led the world with its General Data Protection Regulati…
The American planemaker’s bet that the 737 MAX would fly again soon has failed. The fallout may lead it—and its rival Airbus—to build a new generation of aircraft Commercial aviation makes up the bulk of Boeing’s revenues. Military-minded top brass of its larg…
Rural Virginians pledge to protect their guns from urban Democrats Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia, has no plan to wrest guns from their owners. His proposed gun-control measures are far more modest. But the Virginians who gathered this month at a meet…
Contemporary worries about the impact of technology are part of a historical pattern
Elizabeth Warren thinks so. America’s allies do not 未翻译原文阅读：Should America rule out first use of nuclear weapons? President Barack Obama promised that he would reduce the role that nuclear weapons played in America’s national security strategy. His successor h…
The “Internet of Things” will fundamentally change the relationship between consumers and producers On August 29th, as Hurricane Dorian（飓风多利安） tracked towards America’s east coast, Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, an electric-car maker, announced that some…
Elizabeth Warren thinks so. America’s allies do not President Barack Obama promised that he would reduce the role that nuclear weapons played in America’s national security strategy. His successor has done the opposite. In a review of nuclear policy published …
The threats come both from left and right 未翻译原文阅读：As societies polarise, free speech is under threat. It needs defenders Who is the greater threat to free speech: President Donald Trump or campus radicals? Left and right disagree furiously about this. But it i…