Even the makers of the Guardian Cap admit it looks silly. But for a sport facing an existential brain-injury crisis, once unthinkable solutions have now become almost normal.

The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”

Wolfs, Fancy Dance, and The Last of the Sea Women are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Apple TV+ this month.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updates its Privacy Policy to allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X user data, unless the user opts out, effective November 15, 2024  —  On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party …

Will Shanklin / Engadget: The FCC issues new rules that will require all mobile phones sold in the US to be compatible with hearing aids, “after a transition period”  —  With the number of Americans 65 and older expected to balloon by nearly 50 percent by 2050, the rules will ensure those with hearing loss […]

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix forecasts 2025 revenue of $43B-$44B, which would be 11%-13% higher than its 2024 guidance, and targets a 2025 operating margin of 28% vs. 27% in 2024  —  Netflix is expecting to keep growing revenue at double-digit percentages in 2025.  —  In reporting Q3 2024 results that beat analyst forecasts …

Some of the most widely used drugs today, including penicillin, were discovered through a process called phenotypic screening. Using this method, scientists are essentially throwing drugs at a problem — for example, when attempting to stop bacterial growth or fixing a cellular defect — and then observing what happens next, without necessarily first knowing how […]

No matter the outcome, the results of the 2024 United States presidential election are certain to have global impact. How are citizens and leaders in other parts of the world viewing this election? What’s at stake for their countries and regions? This was the focus of “The 2024 US Presidential Election: The World is Watching,” […]

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Surveys of nearly 900 workers show that perceptions of supervisors have a significant impact on whether these programs succeed.

Three steps to help you decide what’s working — and what you might want to change.

Aaron Kofsky isn’t just a random staffer; he is JD Vance’s financial policy adviser during an election cycle that cares about crypto.

So much jamming is taking place in northeastern Norway, regulators no longer want to know.

Security researchers created an algorithm that turns a malicious prompt into a set of hidden instructions that could send a user’s personal information to an attacker.

Financial Times: Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using $25 meal credits to buy household items, as it restructures WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs teams  —  Limited time offer  —  Save 40% on Standard Digital  —  CA$708 CA$419 for your first year, equivalent to CA$34.92 per month.

Washington Post: Instagram rolls out new settings to fight sextortion, like hiding teens’ follower lists from potential blackmailers; Meta says the crime is becoming more common  —  Scammers are targeting teens by getting hold of their intimate photos.  —  Instagram says it’s rolling out a suite of new settings …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Enterprise data security startup Cyera buys data loss startup Trail Security for $162M in cash and stock; sources: Cyera is raising $200M+ at a ~$3B valuation  —  Cyera, the Israel-founded, U.S.-based cybersecurity unicorn that uses artificial intelligence to build what’s known …

A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center. As the black hole draws in surrounding gas and dust, it blasts out an enormous amount of energy, making quasars some of the brightest objects in the universe. Quasars have been observed as early as […]

Legend has it that Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head, sparking a bout of scientific thinking that led to the theory of gravity. It’s one of the most famous stories in science, perhaps because it shows the power of simple human experiences to revolutionize our understanding of […]

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.

The US has accused two brothers of being part of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan, which allegedly went on a wild cyberattack spree that hit hundreds of targets—and, for one of the two men, even put lives at risk.

Thousands may now be at risk of mold-related illnesses following this year’s hurricanes in the American South.

Financial Times: Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as it seeks to grow into a super app; Expedia, valued at nearly $20B, would be Uber’s largest acquisition  —  Buying the travel website would be the ride-hailing group’s biggest deal as it looks to diversify

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Florida-based SynthBee, started by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz to build a new kind of computing intelligence platform, raised a $20M seed led by Crosspoint  —  SynthBee, started by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, has raised $20 million in funding to create a new kind of “computing intelligence.”

Chester Dawson / Bloomberg: Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute partner to speed up development of humanoid robots using TRI’s large behavior models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas  —  Research effort aims to develop, deploy multi-tasking robots at scale. … Toyota Motor Corp.’s research unit …

While quantum computers are still in their infancy, more and more people are training to become quantum software developers

Linguist Irene Heim, professor emerita in MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, has been named a co-recipient of the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Heim shares the award with Hans Kamp, a professor of formal logics and philosophy of language at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Heim and Kamp are being recognized for their […]

In the current AI zeitgeist, sequence models have skyrocketed in popularity for their ability to analyze data and predict what to do next. For instance, you’ve likely used next-token prediction models like ChatGPT, which anticipate each word (token) in a sequence to form answers to users’ queries. There are also full-sequence diffusion models like Sora, […]

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Five principles for helping bend the cost curve without compromising on the quality of care.

A conversation with IMD professor Stefan Michel on how companies can realize the maximum benefit from their innovations.

Martin Coulter / Reuters: LatticeFlow’s LLM Checker, which analyzed models from Meta, Alibaba, Mistral, Anthropic, and OpenAI against the EU’s AI Act, finds some compliance issues  —  Some of the most prominent artificial intelligence models are falling short of European regulations in key areas such as cybersecurity resilience …

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: A profile of Neuralink’s top neurosurgeon Matthew MacDougall, who has worked there for seven years and is an even-keeled, affable counterbalance to Elon Musk  —  While the controversial CEO sees a future merging of human minds with machine, Matthew MacDougall may actually be the man you’d want putting a chip in […]

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: The Cybersecurity Association of China says Intel products sold in the country should be subject to a security review, alleging it has “constantly harmed” China  —  Intel (INTC.O) products sold in China should be subject to a security review, the Cybersecurity Association of China …

Next-generation phone networks could dramatically outperform current ones thanks to a new technique for transmitting multiple streams of data over a wide range of frequencies

Most doctors go into medicine because they want to help patients. But today’s health care system requires that doctors spend hours each day on other work — searching through electronic health records (EHRs), writing documentation, coding and billing, prior authorization, and utilization management — often surpassing the time they spend caring for patients. The situation leads to […]

Riccardo Comin says the best part of his job as a physics professor and exotic materials researcher is when his students come into his office to tell him they have new, interesting data. “It’s that moment of discovery, that moment of awe, of revelation of something that’s outside of anything you know,” says Comin, the […]

The new frontier in large language models is the ability to “reason” their way through problems. New research from Apple says it’s not quite what it’s cracked up to be.

Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.

Disclaimer, Slow Horses, and Bad Monkey are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month.

Wired: A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person’s consent, seemingly violating the company’s terms of service  —  Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.

Richard Nieva / Forbes: Galileo, a startup that helps companies fine tune, evaluate, observe, and protect their AI models, raised a $45M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners  —  Galileo, founded by former Google and Uber employees, helps companies to make sure their models are actually ready for primetime when they launch.

Umar Shakir / The Verge: YouTube rolls out a new “captured with a camera” label, using the C2PA standard to detect if the video came from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound  —  YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and […]

A simulator for the process of scientific discovery shows that AI agents still fall short of human scientists and engineers in coming up with hypotheses and carrying out experiments on their own

With its latest space mission successfully launched, NASA is set to return for a close-up investigation of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Yesterday at 12:06 p.m. EDT, the Europa Clipper lifted off via SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on a mission that will take a close look at Europa’s icy surface. Five years from now, the spacecraft will […]

When an election result is disputed, people who are skeptical about the outcome may be swayed by figures of authority who come down on one side or the other. Those figures can be independent monitors, political figures, or news organizations. However, these “debunking” efforts don’t always have the desired effect, and in some cases, they can […]

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Five steps to help you enhance the discovery process and deliver products that meet both customer needs and business goals.

Reality Defender, a startup focused on AI detection, has developed a tool to verify human participants in video calls and catch fraudsters using AI deepfakes for scams.