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The FDA and CDC endorsed boosters of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines just a month after the agencies did the same for a Pfizer/BioNTech booster. Here’s what’s known today about these shots. On Wednesday, Oct. 20, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) endorsed boosters for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccines, following recommendations from an FDA advisory committee. A day later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did the same, signif...

AI World Government speakers addressed the challenges of getting AI engineers to incorporate ethical decisions into the design of AI systems.   

Oræ -Experiences on the Border, ( oræ, Latin for “borders”) the Swiss contribution to the 17th Venice Biennale explores the spatial and political dimension of the country’s border, investigating the social implications of this inhabited territory. Created by a Geneva-based team of architects and artists comprising Mounir Ayoub and Vanessa Lacaille from Laboratoire d’architecture, as well as filmmaker Fabrice Aragno and artist sculptor Pierre Szczepanski, the exhibition details a seri...

  The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values other than buying or selling. To arrive at this society, we need a good deal of planning and a good deal of struggle, which, if the best comes to the best, may be on the plane of ideas, and otherwise—who knows? –Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, 1948   These profoundly radical words from Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) echo Malcolm X’s call to address structural racism in society “by any means necessary”. Yet Wiener is hardly...

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