September 2023

Glass Health is building an AI for suggesting medical diagnoses

September 8, 2023
While a medical student at UC San Francisco, Dereck Paul grew concerned that innovation in medical software was lagging behind other sectors, like finance and aerospace. He came to believe that patients are best served when doctors are equipped with software that reflects the cutting edge of tech, and dreamed of starting a company that’d […]

Square says it has resolved day-long outage

September 8, 2023
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning on the U.S. west coast, been battling a prolonged outage that had downed its services since Thursday afternoon. In a new posting on its status […]

The Download: combating covid, and the challenges of governing AI

September 8, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What to know about this autumn’s covid vaccines Many people have started testing positive for covid recently. Hospitalizations for the disease in the US rose nearly 16% during the third week of August,…

What to know about this autumn’s covid vaccines

September 8, 2023
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Last week I came down with some kind of bug. So I got to play one of my least favorite games: “Covid or Not Covid?” In my case,…

Google flips the switch on interest-based ads with ‘Privacy Sandbox’ rollout

September 8, 2023
Google is now rolling out Privacy Sandbox — its tech to replace third-party cookies — to all Chrome users. The company is touting this as a more privacy-forward feature, which tracks topics of interest based on your browsing habits. Advertisers can then use this data to show you relevant ads. The company has been showing […]