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July 28, 2020

Meet the Mind: Dr. Lauren Meyers

ALL OF US kinda, sorta know we’re living in unprecedented times—but Dr. Lauren Meyers can actually confirm the sentiment. The University of Texas at Austin Professor of Integrative Biology is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of epidemiology, and specifically epidemic modeling, an area that leverages…

Drone Defense

When a mysterious flight of drones attacked two critical Saudi Aramco refining facilities last fall, it underscored that the shadowy fight against unmanned aircraft is not going well even for some of the world’s best funded militaries. The consequential attack, which reportedly included more than two dozen drones and…

Built For You: The Cities of Tomorrow

FINDING A PLACE to call home matters. It’s human nature to want a place where you feel like you belong, although you’d be hard-pressed to find one city today that checks off all the boxes—no place is perfect. Yet no matter where we choose to plant our roots, place…

The Pandemic Pivot

THE IDEA DIDN’T start with any one team member in particular. “It was a few weeks before quarantine started, around when we were all realizing that coronavirus was really going to be a major crisis,” recalls Milton Lopez, the head of SparkCognition Labs. “So then a bunch of us…

AI vs. The (Next) Pandemic

WHICH VIEW IS right? Maybe all of them. It’s true that AI healthcare tools did little to prevent the initial, rapid spread of COVID-19. But it’s also true that AI has been used to effectively respond to the crisis ever since. AI tools spotted the current outbreak and predicted…