Laura Spinney

Category: Technology

  • Bill Gates on the pandemic

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    IN 2015, the American technologist and philanthropist Bill Gates warned that humanity wasn’t ready for a pandemic. Seven years on, as the world emerges (hopefully) from a pandemic for which it wasn’t ready, he thinks we have it within our power to make sure this one was the last. There will be more disease outbreaks,…

  • AI triumphs at bridge

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    AN artificial intelligence has beaten eight world champions at bridge, a game in which human supremacy has resisted the march of the machines until now… This article first appeared in The Guardian on 29 March 2022. To continue reading, click here.