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Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: How angel investing became a pastime and a way of socializing in Silicon Valley, with investors betting small amounts in friends’ startups  —  Maia Bittner is an angel investor, and she has a lot of friends who’ve founded startups.  Sometimes they ask her if she wants to put money into their […]

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Court filing: in March, Jack Dorsey told Elon Musk he tried to add Musk to Twitter’s board, but felt the rest of the board was too “risk averse”  —  – Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wanted Elon Musk on the board of the social media company, but felt the rest of […]

Between 2016 and 2021, the carbon emissions associated with mining bitcoin have increased from 0.9 tonnes to 113 tonnes per coin

Lamina1 was contacted for comment.   Neal Stephenson was contacted for comment.   Facebook did not respond to a request for comment on the standards underpinning its own metaverse, and whether it might consider making it interoperable with open source standards.

Payton Dupuis’s interest in biology research began where it does for many future scientists — witnessing a relative struggling with an incurable medical condition. For Dupuis, that family member was her uncle, who suffered from complications from diabetes. Dupuis, a senior at Montana State University, says that diabetes is prominent on the Flathead Reservation in […]

To prepare fields for planting, farmers the world over often burn corn stalks, rice husks, hay, straw, and other waste left behind from the previous harvest. In many places, the practice creates huge seasonal clouds of smog, contributing to air pollution that kills 7 million people globally a year, according to the World Health Organization. […]

Since 2015, the MIT AgeLab has awarded scholarships to high school students who developed intergenerational programs — initiatives that bring together younger and older people for knowledge-sharing and social connection — in their communities. On Sept. 9, five $5,000 OMEGA scholarships were given to high school students across the United States, supported by the sponsorship […]

A series of conversations on influential management ideas from HBR’s first 100 years.

Before playing calendar Tetris, start thinking about when, where, and why you need to come together.

Strong traditions can provide a sense of identity, inspiration, and direction — but they can also hold your company back.

This week, we discuss guided cooking apps, connected appliances, and all things smart (and not so smart) on our countertops.

The company has a dizzying array of streaming sticks, boxes, and soundbars to choose from, but don’t worry—these are the ones to buy.

We made tons of coffee, tea, and ramen to test these gadgets—and boiled it down to these top picks.

Sami Fathi / MacRumors: An Apple support document and compliance page reference an “iPhone 14 Max”, suggesting Apple chose the iPhone 14 Plus name at short notice  —  Newly discovered references to the iPhone 14 Plus as “iPhone 14 Max” on Apple’s website suggest this was the name originally intended …

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail Chaos, a new cross-platform malware that infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including routers, FreeBSD boxes, and servers  —  Small office routers?  FreeBSD machines?  Enterprise servers?  Chaos infects them all.  —  Researchers have revealed a never …

Morgan Meaker / Wired: A look at Botometer, which claims to identify the likelihood that a Twitter account is a bot and has been cited by Elon Musk’s lawyers in the Twitter lawsuit  —  In the battle over Twitter’s future, the number of bots on the platform is a key issue.  Problem is, nobody knows […]

A drug-carrying capsule with a motor protects medicines from stomach acid and enzymes before releasing them in the small intestine

Damage to the pipeline that runs between Russia and Germany is being treated as deliberate. Finding out what happened may not be straightforward.

Younger people seek answers on TikTok and Instagram—Google hopes to lure them back with more visual, infinite scrolling search results.

Yes, we saw the usual spate of Echo speakers, but there’s also a brand-new stylus-powered Kindle you can doodle on.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces new shopping features in the US, including a display of products with complementary pieces, 3D images, trending items, and more personalization  —  At its Search On event this afternoon, Google announced a number of shopping-related changes and new features across areas …

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: New Jersey-based Sitetracker, which offers a cloud service to manage critical infrastructure projects, raised a $96M Series D, $66M in equity and $30M in debt  —  Startup Sitetracker Inc. today announced that it has secured $96 million in financing to broaden the adoption of its namesake cloud platform …

Matt Burgess / Wired: Pornhub is testing a chatbot that redirects users searching for CSAM to a service where they can get help; the bot intervened ~174K times during the first month  —  Pornhub is trialing a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behavior.  Will it work?

Bitcoin’s demand for electricity has led to huge carbon emissions, but a slump in the cryptocurrency’s price and rising energy costs have slowed its energy use, at least temporarily

One reason that it’s so difficult to deliver large protein drugs orally is that these drugs can’t pass through the mucus barrier that lines the digestive tract. This means that insulin and most other “biologic drugs” — drugs consisting of proteins or nucleic acids — have to be injected or administered in a hospital.  A […]

MIT Professor Richard Hynes, a pioneer in studying cellular adhesion, has been named a recipient of the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Hynes, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, was honored for the discovery of integrins, proteins that are key […]

MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node held its annual financial technology (fintech) entrepreneurship boot camp this summer, connecting university students with corporate partners to tackle real-world business challenges.   Building on the belief that innovative, creative solutions deliver more value and a better experience, the MIT Entrepreneurship and Fintech Integrator (MEFTI) program featured unique problem statements proposed […]

Ask yourself these three questions before buyers come knocking.

Easy steps you can take today to craft a more agile process.

Lessons from companies that have thrived in volatile environments.

The Aarke Carbonator Pro is an excellent countertop pick for fizzy-water aficionados.

Nobody likes being asked to wait, but recent political history has shown that a completely frictionless internet has its own dangers.

Our San Francisco event brings together scientists, entrepreneurs, and more to spotlight ways that human ingenuity can save the planet.

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: YouTube rolls out narration voiceovers for Shorts on iOS, a popular feature on TikTok  —  YouTube Shorts continues to compete with TikTok by adding loads of new features that are popular on the other app.  Today, the Google-owned platform is rolling out a narration voiceover feature on iOS, a tool that […]

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Sources: FTX is in the process of raising $1B as Sam Bankman-Fried considers bidding for bankrupt lender Celsius Network’s assets  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto billionaire who has been bailing out distressed industry players in recent months, is considering bidding for the assets …

Financial Times: WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart warns the UK government against undermining encryption in the Online Safety Bill, arguing the move would embolden authoritarian regimes  —  Moves to undermine messaging encryption could embolden hostile nation states, Will Cathcart says

A visual model of Guy Bresler’s research would probably look something like a Venn diagram. He works at the four-way intersection where theoretical computer science, statistics, probability, and information theory collide. “There are always new things to do be done at the interface. There are always opportunities for entirely new questions to ask,” says Bresler, […]

Whether you’re typing from coffee shops or a hybrid work setup, you need a screen you can grab and go.

It’s a great handset, but the improvements are so iterative that most of you will hardly notice what’s new.

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: A look at tappable podcast ads in mobile games, which trigger episode downloads; source: iHeartMedia got ~6M unique listeners/month through such ads since 2018  —  Want more stories like this from Ashley Carman?  Podcasters are always hunting for new, flashy places to promote their shows …

The Guardian: Court filing: Elon Musk’s deposition by Twitter’s lawyers has been rescheduled to October 6 and 7  —  Musk to be questioned under oath by Twitter lawyers on 6 and 7 October in preparation for trial over abandoned $44bn takeover  —  Elon Musk is scheduled to be questioned under oath …

Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: The SEC says 16 Wall Street firms have agreed to pay $1.1B in combined penalties for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps  —  Banking giants including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. agreed to pay regulators $1.1 billion in penalties for failing …

Artificial intelligences can create images inspired by the human-generated art they train on. This is raising concerns over copyright and artists’ livelihoods

Neurodegenerative diseases — like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s — are complicated, chronic ailments that can present with a variety of symptoms, worsen at different rates, and have many underlying genetic and environmental causes, some of which are unknown. ALS, in particular, affects voluntary muscle movement and is always […]

The MIT School of Engineering and Pillar VC today announced the MIT-Pillar AI Collective, a one-year pilot program funded by a gift from Pillar VC that will provide seed grants for projects in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science with the goal of supporting translational research. The program will support graduate students and postdocs […]

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