The Media Just Passed a Test It Failed Four Years Ago

Catch the latest stories on how we move, work, and live. View this email in your browser  |   Manage newsletter subscriptions 10.19.20 The Media Just Passed a Test It Failed Four Years Ago In an interview with WIRED, Columbia Journalism School dean Steve Coll says the media has learned some important lessons since 2016 about covering stolen email leaks. Give These Apps Some Notes and They'll Write Emails for You Entrepreneurs are building tools that create emails or marketing copy using GPT-3, text-generation technology released earlier this year. AI Can Help Diagnose Some Illnesses—If Your Country Is Rich Algorithms for detecting eye diseases are mostly trained on patients in the US, Europe, and China. This can make the tools ineffective for other racial groups and countries. How to Build a Spacecraft to Save the World WIRED paid a visit to NASA's first probe designed to protect Earth from killer asteroids. It launches next year. How Apple Built 5G Into Its New iPhones The faster wireless standard uses different chunks of the radio spectrum—but the technology remains nascent. Sales Calls Have Gone Virtual, and AI Is Listening In Wooing clients over lunch is out. So companies are deploying software to analyze Zoom pitches and make recommendations. Just as Tech Looked Serious About Diversity, Trump Intervenes The Labor Department last week questioned Microsoft's stated goal to double the number of Black leaders in the company. Congress Unveils Its Plan to Curb Big Tech's Power A report by a House subcommittee takes aim at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.             This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions