Author Archive

Sarah Zhang

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
Data

How a Tiny Website Became the Police's Go-To Genealogy Database

“I never expected anything like this.”

  • By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Data

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
Data

Google Taught an AI That Sorts Cat Photos to Analyze DNA

And it’s very good at it.

  • By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
CIO Briefing

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
CIO Briefing

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
Emerging Tech

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