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Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?
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Our relationship with chatbots is undergoing a sea change — here’s how the transformation will most affect you and your team.
Chip Conley — founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb’s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy — maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.
We know that everything changes, but we long for something more permanent.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.