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Why was Texas unable to stop a second COVID surge months in the making? FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Memorial Hermann Hospital RN Jacqueline Uwanda prepares to enter a COVID patient's room inside a 38-bed ICU treating mostly COVID patients, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Houston's Texas Medical Center.Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of5A "Bar Open" sign lights the way to a bar along Main Street on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in downtown Houston.Mark Mulligan/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 People hangout at a patio of a bar on Holman Street Thursda...

Scott D. Halpern and Jennifer Prah Ruger are acknowledged for their outstanding accomplishments in ethics and health. Scott D. Halpern and Jennifer Prah Ruger have been named Hastings Center Fellows in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in deepening public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology.  Halpern and Prah Ruger are two of 14 new Hastings Center Fellows joining an elected group of more than 200 that produce publications on ethical issues in health, science, ...

The year the world took on big tech After 25 years of kneeling before the internet companies now known as big tech, something remarkable happened in 2020. The US government stood up - and all hell broke loose. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks via video conference during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust in Washington in July.   AP Save Share In a year when the Zoom call became a daily and forgettable part of life for countless millions of people around the globe, one Zoom call stood out as worth remembering. It happened in July, initiated from a congressional office bu...

How Pacific Islanders have been left to fend for themselves in the pandemic Vox.com 12/14/2020 © Manumalo Ala’ilima In June, Manumalo Ala’ilima got a call from a family member that their brother was hospitalized for Covid-19. Ala’ilima lives in Portland, Oregon, while the rest of their family — some of whom also contracted the virus — live in Southern California. For a while, Ala’ilima was convinced their brother would soon recover. But during their daily calls, his breathing, already labored, grew fainter until he couldn’t call or text anymore. A week and a half later, the...

The ethics of artificial intelligence Digital technologies hold great promise for the economy and society. But some recent developments, such as face recognition, also present ethical dilemmas. The challenges are immense for Switzerland, which is one of the leading developers of artificial intelligence (AI). This content was published on December 10, 2020 - 14:00 December 10, 2020 - 14:00 Christian Raaflaub Digitalisation has led to an explosion of new ethical challenges: the loss of jobs due to automation, filter bubbles, data protection, face recognition, deepfake videos, cyber security an...