As the coronavirus outbreak continues to worsen around the world, it's taking a devastating toll on lives and communities. To help address some of these challenges, today we're announcing a new $800+ million commitment to support small- and…
Abstract: Over the past few years, we have seen fundamental breakthroughs in core problems in machine learning, largely driven by advances in deep neural networks. At the same time, the amount of data collected in a wide array of scientific domains…
Today, Saturday, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield is taking a day off. It may sound like a reasonable sentence, but in the eye of a pandemic storm, this is quite a feat. In little over two months, Bloomfield has fronted at least 40…
On 31 December 2019, WHO was alerted to several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. The virus did not match any other known virus. This raised concern because when a virus is new, we do not know how it affects people. One…
This article constitutes the March 27, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or suggestions to. According to statistics compiled by Our World in Data (OWD), the number of newly reported COVID-19…