Here’s why we probably won’t see a COVID-19 vaccine in 2020
Donald Trump may be “very confident” we will have a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year, but the rest of us should be more cautious. Billions of...
The first quarantine concert is a preview of music’s weird future
A on May 15 will be one of the first — if not the first — live, socially-distanced show in the U.S. since the beginning of wide-scale shutdowns, meant to...
Millions of historic newspaper images get the machine learning treatment at the Library of Congress – TechCrunch
Historians interested in the way events and people were chronicled in the old days once had to sort through card catalogs for old papers, then microfiche scans, then digital listings...
How quantum computers can save us from the coronavirus
A team of researchers at Penn State University recently began exploring high-powered solutions for drug discovery in hopes of stumbling upon the cure for COVID-19. Hundreds of other research teams,...
Why it’s chilly in parts of U.S. while the world cooks
April 2020 matched the warmest April on record, continuing the year's robust global warming trend. Above-average temperatures dominated the globe in April, the European Union Climate Change Service reported Tuesday...
The future of deep-reinforcement learning, our contemporary AI superhero – TechCrunch
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This AI tool identifies the most promising COVID-19 research
An AI tool that scans reams of scientific literature for promising COVID-19 research could speed up the search for a coronavirus vaccine. The system provides an automated alternative to human review, which...
How 'murder hornets' came to the U.S.
The Asian giant hornet, an invasive species recently dubbed the "murder hornet" in the U.S. and known for its beheadings and slaughter of honey bees, has arrived in Washington state....
China launches next-gen crew capsule for demo flight via new Long March 5B rocket – TechCrunch
China has launched a demonstration mission of its next-generation crew spacecraft, using the Long March 5B rocket. This is the first launch for that new rocket, an iteration of China’s...