China’s online propaganda isn’t very good

Copper, crude and crypto rise, as do global stocks

U.S. futures are gaining on Tuesday, following Europe and Asia higher. Read More

DeepMind’s new protein-folding A.I. is already helping in the fight against COVID-19

Artificial intelligence has just solved one of biology’s most vexing challenges: how to determine the three-dimensional shape of a protein. DeepMind, the London-based A.I. company that is owned by Google-parent Alphabet, has created an A.I. system it calls AlphaFold 2 that uses a protein’s DNA sequence to predict its folded shape, frequently to within an […]

Do deficits matter?

The era of low rates may not last forever. Read More