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Melissa Repko / CNBC: GameStop partners with FTX on “e-commerce and online marketing initiatives” in the US and reports a Q2 net loss of $108.7M, up from $61.6M YoY; stock up 10%+  —  – GameStop said quarterly sales declined and losses widened, as its cash pile shrank and inventory swelled.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has awarded a 2022 J-WAFS Solutions grant to Patrick S. Doyle, the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, for his innovative system to tackle water pollution. Doyle will be working with co-Principal Investigator Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, assistant professor in materials processing in the […]

Managing your high expectations can actually improve your team’s performance.

Reinventing yourself doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch.

People’s tolerance for discomfort — and conformity — has changed.

The British utility company is environmentally friendly and has great customer service. Why can’t they all be like this?

Blistering temperatures and the invasion of Ukraine have fed fears of global shortages—but some regions are suffering much more than others.

Tech dependence is following many students back to school—but waging a war against devices helps no one.

Alexandra Muller / Bloomberg: A wave of foreign buyers are planning to acquire fast-growing British tech companies, including Micro Focus, Avast, and Darktrace, thanks to a weakened pound  —  A wave of foreign buyers is coming after British technology companies, threatening to rob the UK market of what little exposure it still has to high-growth […]

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: PolyAI, which uses AI to handle call center calls, raised a $40M Series B led by Georgian at a $300M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $70M  —  Is it possible to build a voice assistant for the call center that can pick up on indirect questions to figure out […]

Neirin Gray Desai / Rest of World: How Minecraft’s ban on NFTs impacted the play-to-earn Critterz NFT community, some of whom bought in for thousands of dollars and earned hundreds per month  —  Kids in the Philippines were earning hundreds of dollars from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a […]

Training a machine-learning model to effectively perform a task, such as image classification, involves showing the model thousands, millions, or even billions of example images. Gathering such enormous datasets can be especially challenging when privacy is a concern, such as with medical images. Researchers from MIT and the MIT-born startup DynamoFL have now taken one […]

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major contributor to climate change and a significant product of many human activities, notably industrial manufacturing. A major goal in the energy field has been to chemically convert emitted CO2 into valuable chemicals or fuels. But while CO2 is available in abundance, it has not yet been widely used to […]

Some educators believe social media can help them engage with students, but it also raises questions around classroom privacy.

Telling people to quit the platform is less effective than stopping influential elites from using the site in harmful ways.

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google confirms the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will run on a new “Tensor G2” SoC  —  Ahead of October’s Pixel 7 launch event, Google has confirmed that their next series of phone will run on the second-generation “Tensor G2” chip.  —  Last year, the “Google Tensor” …

Sylvia Varnham O’Regan / The Information: Internal memo: Instagram plans to eventually eliminate its existing Shopping page and will test a simpler and less personalized page over the next few months  —  Instagram is planning to drastically scale back its shopping features, the company told Instagram staffers on Tuesday …

Bloomberg: Twitter tells Judge McCormick that Peiter Zatko never raised spam concerns until he filed his whistleblower complaint and “started parroting” Musk’s allegations  —  A lawyer for Twitter Inc. said a whistle-blower who claims the company responded inadequately to spam and bot accounts …

On the rooftop of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory building sits a 38-foot-wide dome-shaped radio antenna enclosure, or radome. Inside the climate-controlled environment, shielded from the New England weather, a steel structure supports a 20,000-pound, 20-foot diameter satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna. The antenna — called the Multi-Band Test Terminal (MBTT) — can rotate 15 degrees per […]

For more than half a century, researchers around the world have been engaged in attempts to achieve fusion ignition in a laboratory, a grand challenge of the 21st century. The High-Energy-Density Physics (HEDP) group at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center has focused on an approach called inertial confinement fusion (ICF), which uses lasers to […]

As the U.S. aging population rapidly grows, there remains a severe shortage of care workers and personal assistants for older adults and people with disabilities despite a surplus of unfilled jobs. Low pay, lack of basic benefits, and the paucity of opportunities for growth have resulted in a huge turnover in the long-term services and […]

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A conversation with Tel Aviv University’s Alexandra Kalev on policies that make a difference.

Can Denver’s The Tattered Cover find a way to compete successfully with online and big box retailers?

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Bitwarden, an open-source password manager for individuals and enterprises, raised $100M led by PSG, its first substantial outside funding since 2015  —  Bitwarden, an open-source password manager for enterprises and consumers, has raised $100 million in a round of funding led by PSG, with participation form Battery Ventures.

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Chinese government tenders show important institutions, such as Tsinghua University, rely on AI chips from Nvidia and AMD, which are now under US export limits  —  High-profile universities and state-run research institutes in China have been relying on a U.S. computing chip to power …

Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation: Peter Eckersley, who worked at EFF for 12 years, including as its chief computer scientist, and founded the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, has died at 43  —  With deep sadness, EFF mourns the loss of our friend, the technologist, activist, and cybersecurity expert Peter Eckersley.

The bustling coastal city of Wenzhou made its mark early on Hao Zhang. “It is considered the birthplace of Chinese capitalism, and living there, with many relatives involved in startups, I was exposed to all kinds of business,” says Zhang, a rising fifth-year graduate student in political science. He also gained a close-up view of […]

Make the most of the long weekend with discounted MacBooks, robot vacuums, and weighted blankets.

Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled.

It’s more than an unproven medical treatment—it’s a view into the antiabortion movement’s larger project.

Jaclyn Allen / TheDenverChannel.com: Utility company Xcel locked 22,000 Colorado users in an energy saving program out of their smart thermostats for hours on August 30 citing an “energy emergency”  —  22,000 people lost control of temperatures in their homes for hours Tuesday  —  DENVER — During the dog days of summer …

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Amazon plans to partner with small and medium-size pharmacies in Japan to open an online store that delivers prescription drugs in the country in 2023  —  E-commerce giant considers creating platform with local pharmacies  —  TOKYO — Amazon.com is considering entering …

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Binance plans to stop supporting the world’s second biggest stablecoin USDC and convert users’ USDC, USDP, and TUSD into its own stablecoin BUSD on September 29  —  The action effectively removes the world’s second biggest stablecoin USDC as a tradeable asset on Binance’s platform.

How to curb a colleague’s bad behavior that’s wearing you down.

Research suggests that transparency up front will improve customer satisfaction in the long run.

New research sheds light on what might be holding you back.

The ever-popular battle royale’s “creative mode” offers a freedom that has long outstripped the base game itself.

This mobile broadband router offers 5G support, but it comes with a hefty price tag.

The two probes made flybys of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s. Today they’re still doing science way out beyond our solar system.

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Apple appears to be expanding its ad platform team, currently around 250 strong, per LinkedIn; Apple’s career page lists 216 roles, up from 56 in late 2020  —  Move adds to industry concerns after tech giant launched privacy rules that make it hard to tailor ads to iPhone users

Washington Post: Peiter Zatko’s allegations offer details on Twitter’s misinformation policies and failures, including accepting a QAnon proponent into its Birdwatch program  —  A document from whistleblower Peiter Zatko that details the company’s failings in policing misinformation shows what happens when a business model fails

Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal: US intelligence officials worry that the Islamic State could use NFTs to spread messages and evade censorship, after IS posted its first NFT following an attack  —  National-security analysts see potentially dangerous platform for recruiting and funding  —  WASHINGTON—A simple digital …

The sun is a giver of life—but get too much of it and you’re toast. These are the best hats, arm coverings, and shirts to shield yourself.

New York Times: US parents are increasingly buying Apple Watches as a stopgap cellphone to reach and track their children as young as 5 while mitigating internet addiction  —  As Apple prepares to unveil new models next week, the smart watch has found an unexpected audience: children as young as 5.

Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: In August 2022, Beijing’s municipal government unveiled plans to regulate the “Digital Human Industry”, which covers digital assistants and virtual influencers  —  China’s capital is looking to set standards for digital assistants, virtual influencers and gaming avatars.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect from Apple’s Far Out event: the iPhone 14 lineup, including Pro models with a revamped notch, new AirPods Pro, a rugged Apple Watch Pro, and more  —  Apple’s biggest event of the year is just a few days away, with the iPhone 14, Apple Watch Pro and new […]

Street fighting is never as well-choreographed as games make it out to be. And you certainly don’t eat food off the ground.

David Seeley / Dallas Innovates: An investor group led by Swiss Life and others agree to pay $1.5B for a 35% stake in DataBank, which owns 65+ data centers and 20 interconnection hubs in the US  —  DataBank—a leader of the booming data center market, with over 65 data centers and 20 interconnection hubs in […]

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI’s GPT-3, Google’s LaMDA, Meta’s OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data  —  Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet.  So I wanted to know: What does it have […]