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Making tech work for the workers’ movement

A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.

Research conducted 20 years ago by a former NJIT dean is being put to new use in the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech.

If society needs to rapidly invent and deliver a vaccine – a global public good – with taxpayer money, why are U.S. federal agencies relinquishing the government’s ability to share and deploy these inventions and production processes with the world?

Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.

"Technology can be used to self-determine as long as we can control it. If it continues to belong to the privileged and powerful, we will always be struggling with it."

Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon have been making remarkable progress in artificial intelligence. Recently they have released much of their work to the public for free use, and adaptation. This seems bizarre: why would companies reveal the methods at the core of their businesses? And what does their embrace of open-source AI say about the current state of artificial intelligence?