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Sarah Zhang
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Cybersecurity
People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps
How an obsolete medical device with a security flaw became a must-have for some patients with type 1 diabetes.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech
A DNA Company Wants You to Help Catch Criminals
Family Tree DNA was criticized for secretly working with the FBI. Now it’s explicitly asking potential customers to help law enforcement.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech
You Should Be Worried About Your DNA Privacy
DNA databases are just the beginning.
- By Sarah Zhang and Vishkha Darbha, The Atlantic
Digital Government
How a Tiny Website Became the Police's Go-To Genealogy Database
“I never expected anything like this.”
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Digital Government
The 'Genome Hacker' Who Mapped a 13-Million-Person Family Tree
Huge crowdsourced genealogy databases are inspiring new genetics research.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Artificial Intelligence
Google Taught an AI That Sorts Cat Photos to Analyze DNA
And it’s very good at it.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Digital Government
What Happens When You Put 500,000 People's DNA Online
Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Digital Government
The Genomic Revolution Reaches the City Crime Lab
How will law enforcement handle the deluge of new information available from DNA?
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Artificial Intelligence
China’s Artificial-Intelligence Boom
The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech
The Low-Tech Way to Colonize Mars
NASA researchers are modeling Martian settlements after early American colonists.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
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