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Google’s new Gemini-powered search experience is rolling out to users in the US. Here’s some advice on how to navigate it. And if you want to turn AI Overviews off, too bad.

WIRED talked to political streamer Hasan Piker about Joe Biden, the youth vote, and his advocacy for Gaza.

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple previews Vehicle Motion Cues, which adds animated dots to iPhone and iPad screens to reduce motion sickness for passengers using them in moving vehicles  —  Apple today announced new accessibility features coming to its devices later this year, and one feature in particular that is likely …

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit’s Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner  —  Reddit (RDDT.N) has partnered with OpenAI to bring the social media platform’s content to ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday.

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Take-Two announces a fall 2025 release date for Grand Theft Auto VI, and reduces its bookings forecast for FY 2025 from $8B+ to $5.55B+  —  – Game maker lowers forecast for 2025 bookings as a result  — The 2013 version of game has sold over 200 million copies

You can blank out certain types of background noise and focus on just one conversation using prototype noise-cancelling headphones

When Hanjun Lee arrived at MIT, he was set on becoming a Course 5 chemistry student. Based on his experience in high school, biology was all about rote memorization. That changed when he took course 7.03 (Genetics), taught by then-professor Aviv Regev, now head and executive vice president of research and early development at Genentech, and Peter Reddien, […]

How can people better imagine and plan for their future selves? A two-day event hosted at MIT featured two chief executives at the forefront of an emerging industry centered around helping the public prepare for longer lives. Karen Lynch, CEO of CVS, and Penny Pennington, managing partner at Edward Jones, were the opening speakers for […]

Physics graduate student Jeong Min (Jane) Park is among the 32 exceptional early-career scientists worldwide chosen to receive the prestigious 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows award.   As a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow, Park’s postdoctoral work will seek to directly detect phases that could host new particles by employing an instrument that can visualize subatomic-scale phenomena.   […]

Three steps to move past generic, unhelpful conversations.

Tips for curating a professional and engaging brand that resonates with prospective employers.

What will the end of third-party cookies mean for digital advertising, online publishing, and the open Internet?

This week, we unpack all the news from Google I/O, where we got a glimpse of how the world’s dominant search engine will evolve in the AI era.

Twitch streamers could have a serious impact on the election—even by sitting it out.

The EU has launched an investigation into Facebook and Instagram’s child protection measures are part of mounting concerns around minors’ use of social media.

Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: A profile of Noland Arbaugh, who was paralyzed after an accident in mid-2016 and became the first person to receive Neuralink’s brain implant in January 2024  —  For the first time, Noland Arbaugh explains how Elon Musk’s brain implant, which allows him to control a computer with his thoughts, has changed […]

Associated Press: Senate hearing: US DNI Avril Haines says foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming elections, harnessing AI to spread disinformation  —  America’s foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming U.S. elections, top security officials warned members of the Senate Wednesday …

Jez Corden / Windows Central: Microsoft’s decisions, like seemingly rowing back on Surface, Start Menu ads, closing studios, and porting AAA games to PS5, show a short-term financial focus  —  Microsoft has made a range of baffling decisions and awful mis-steps recently.  You can trace everything back to insatiable desire for money.

A virtual assistant for surgeons translates text prompts into commands for a robot, offering a simple way to instruct machines to carry out small tasks in operations

When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like density and volume. Phase transitions in water are so common most of us probably don’t even think about them, but phase transitions in novel materials or complex physical systems are an important area of […]

Most people agree that the spread of online misinformation is a serious problem. But there is much less consensus on what to do about it. Many proposed solutions focus on how social media platforms can or should moderate content their users post, to prevent misinformation from spreading. “But this approach puts a critical social decision […]

MIT senior Elaine Siyu Liu doesn’t own an electric car, or any car. But she sees the impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewables on the grid as two pieces of an energy puzzle she wants to solve. The U.S. Department of Energy reports that the number of public and private EV charging ports nearly […]

All-Clad makes some of the best—and priciest—cookware you can buy. These discounts will help you invest for less.

A Senate Intelligence Committee hearing today saw broad agreement on how AI and other threats loom ahead of the US election—and uncertainty about how to respond.

New iPads are here. We break down Apple’s current lineup to help you figure out which one of Apple’s tablets is best for you.

Kristin Robinson / Billboard: Spotify received a cease-and-desist letter from the National Music Publishers’ Association over its use of lyrics in its videos feature, remix tool, and more  —  “Spotify appears to be engaged in direct infringement by hosting unlicensed musical works in its lyrics, videos and podcasts,” the NMPA writes.

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google One’s VPN service will no longer be available as of June 20, 2024; Pixel 7 devices and Pixel Fold will get a built-in VPN via an update on June 3, 2024  —  Earlier this year Google announced that the Google One VPN would be shutting down and, now, we have […]

Lewis Empson / What Hi-Fi?: Sony unveils the £1,299 Xperia 1 VI, with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, a 6.5-inch OLED Full HD+ display, and 7.1x optical zoom lens, and the £349 Xperia 10 VI  —  Sony’s budget and flagship phones for 2024 have arrived  —  Sony has unleashed its latest pair of Xperia […]

Artificial compound eyes made without the need for expensive and precise lenses could provide cheap visual sensors for robots and driverless cars

With big announcements about the latest artificial intelligence models this week, tech firms are competing to have the most exciting products – but generative AI remains hampered by issues

Researchers aiming to create a secure quantum version of the internet need a device called a quantum repeater, which doesn’t yet exist – but now two teams say they are well on the way to building one

The MIT Supply Chain Management Master’s Program has recognized 35 exceptional students from eight renowned undergraduate programs specializing in supply chain management and engineering across the United States. Presented annually, the MIT Supply Chain Excellence Awards honor undergraduate students who have demonstrated outstanding talent in supply chain management or industrial engineering. These students originate from […]

After almost 50 years at the Institute, the MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science (MITES) programs for middle and high school students continue to evolve. MITES increases confidence, creates community, and offers a challenging foundation in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) topics for seventh through 12th grade students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds. […]

John Joannopoulos, an innovator and mentor in the fields of theoretical condensed matter physics and nanophotonics, has been named the recipient of the 2024-2025 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. Joannopoulos is the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics and director of MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. He has been a member of the […]

Non-disclosure agreements that restrict your ability to report misconduct to the government are illegal in the U.S.

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How to grapple with the complexities of moving operations in a tightly woven global economy.

Microsoft’s own PowerToys utility can help you unlock the full potential of the Windows desktop.

As H5N1 continues its spread among US cow herds, raw milk enthusiasts remain utterly unfazed.

The future of once-beloved sports blog Deadspin has been murky since it was acquired by an unknown company called Lineup Publishing in March. The new ownership shared its plans with WIRED.

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World: As India’s elections run from April 19 to June 1, a look at the BJP’s vast WhatsApp operations, including using the app to campaign free from public scrutiny  —  An analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India’s ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny.  […]

New York Times: Bipartisan US Senators release a long-awaited plan for AI, calling for spending $32B annually by 2026 on R&D, creating a federal data privacy law, and more  —  Their plan is the culmination of a yearlong listening tour on the dangers of the new technology.

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Kentucky-based PayHOA, a bootstrapped startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations, raised a $27.5M Series A and reports 652K+ users  —  PayHOA, a previously bootstrapped Kentucky-based startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations (HOAs) …

Astronomers at MIT, the University of Liège, and elsewhere have discovered a new planet orbiting a small cold star, a mere 55 light years away. The nearby planet is similar to Earth in its size and rocky composition, though that’s where the similarities end. Because this new world is likely missing an atmosphere. In a […]

Need a moment of levity? Try watching videos of astronauts falling on the moon. NASA’s outtakes of Apollo astronauts tripping and stumbling as they bounce in slow motion are delightfully relatable. For MIT engineers, the lunar bloopers also highlight an opportunity to innovate. “Astronauts are physically very capable, but they can struggle on the moon, […]

It was AI all day at Google’s developer keynote. The company showed off new AI-powered chatbot tools, new search capabilities, and a bunch of machine intelligence upgrades for Android.

America now has 100 percent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, but with US automakers struggling to compete and its reliance on China’s materials, will this help? Mercedes, BMW and VW think not.

Mad Max, Stop Making Sense, and Dune are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Max this month.

CNBC: Ilya Sutskever says he will leave OpenAI to work on a “personally meaningful” project; Director of Research Jakub Pachocki will become OpenAI’s chief scientist  —  OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday that he’s leaving the Microsoft-backed startup.