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TECH POWER PLAYERS 50
Desh Deshpande is expanding entrepreneurship to narrow the wealth gap
The founder of EforAll — #21 on the list — is scaling up the number of startups in underserved communities.
TECH POWER PLAYERS 50
Marc Raibert, master of robotics, is making machines smarter — and more useful
The Boston Dynamics founder behind the popular Spot and Stretch robots makes robotics look easy. He's #26 on the list.
TECH POWER PLAYERS 50
Introducing the Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 — and how it came together
The Tech Power Players 50 is a list of the most influential — and interesting — people in the Massachusetts technology scene, ranked by the Globe's business journalists and an external advisory committee.
TECH POWER PLAYERS 50
Silvio Micali is advancing the hot (and volatile) field of crypto
The MIT professor — #31 on the list — founded Algorand to build a better blockchain and make crypto apps faster and more efficient.
TECH POWER PLAYERS 50
In ‘an interesting collision,’ Carmichael Roberts takes on the climate crisis
The VC at Material Impact and Breakthrough Energy Ventures is a leader in climate tech, fostering a new wave of startups that might produce the answers needed to save the planet. (He's also #1 on the list.)
TECH LAB
MIT, Harvard scientists find AI can recognize race from X-rays — and nobody knows how
As artificial intelligence is increasingly used to help make diagnostic decisions, the research raises the unsettling prospect that AI-based health systems could generate racially biased results.
INNOVATION ECONOMY
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Elon Musk puts Twitter buy on hold, casting doubt on $44 billion deal
Elon Musk said Friday that his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter is “temporarily on hold” pending details on spam and fake accounts on the social media platform, another twist amid signs of internal turmoil over the proposed acquisition.