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These handy tools combine the ease of jotting notes by hand with the power of saving them digitally.

Researchers have found a new way to keep records of when a cell’s genes turn on and off—by harnessing systems that bacteria already use for self-defense.

These software shortcuts will make your workday more productive. Your coworkers will appreciate them too.

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Singapore-based Merkle Science, a predictive crypto intelligence service with threat detection, risk mitigation, and compliance tools, raised a $24M+ Series A  —  The threat detection company added funding to its Series A round, which now totals more than $24 million.

David Kirton / Reuters: Huawei reports H1 revenue dropped 5.9% YoY to ~$44.73B and net profit dropped to ~$2.2B, down from ~$4.7B in H1 2021, as smartphone and laptop sales weaken  —  Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) said on Friday its first-half net profit more than halved as a difficult economy curtailed demand from customers …

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple tells its assemblers to make 90M of the newest iPhones, on par with 2021, despite deteriorating projections for the smartphone market  —  Apple Inc. has asked suppliers to build at least as many of its next-generation iPhones this year as in 2021, counting on an affluent clientele …

You have between now and August 14 to get these great deals on laptops, tablets, TVs, and more.

The State Department organization has called for people to share details about five key members of the hacking group.

In Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, the novelist explores the intimacy of gaming together.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: LinkedIn rolls out new features to court creators, including a clickable link on images, templates for posts, and the ability to mix images and videos  —  LinkedIn announced today that it’s rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social […]

Megha Paul / Tech.eu: Frankfurt-based AAA games studio Gunzilla Games has raised $46M led by Republic Capital and plans to include in-game item trading with NFTs in an upcoming title  —  The German startup will use the new funding to build their new platform, GunZ, to enable players to own their in-game possessions

South China Morning Post: Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q2 revenue rose 41.6% YoY to $1.9B vs. $1.89B est., but net profit fell 25% YoY to $514M, amid lockdowns and harsher US sanctions  —  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) reported better-than-expected earnings for the June quarter …

Moving like an insect may not be the most efficient way for tiny flying robots to hover – they get more lift by taking advantage of vortices of air that form under their wings

The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Bacteria use a variety of defense strategies to fight off viral infection, and some of these systems have led to groundbreaking technologies, such as CRISPR-based gene-editing. Scientists predict there are many more antiviral weapons yet to be found in the […]

Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the world’s electricity, are controlled as if they were individual, free-standing units. In fact, the vast majority are part of larger wind farm installations involving dozens or even hundreds of turbines, whose wakes can affect each other. Now, engineers at MIT and elsewhere have […]

Symbiotic relationships between legumes and the bacteria that grow in their roots are critical for plant survival. Without those bacteria, the plants would have no source of nitrogen, an element that is essential for building proteins and other biomolecules, and they would be dependent on nitrogen fertilizer in the soil.  To establish that symbiosis, some […]

People say they want sustainable products — and that they’re willing to pay for them — but find excuses to not follow through.

A manager’s guide to staying together when your team is often apart.

Five steps to help organizations operationalize their sustainability goals.

The moral framework of future generations may be a radical departure from the past—and the present. Axiological open-mindedness could help bridge that gap.

This week, we look at Samsung’s latest folding phones and discuss what their release means for the mobile industry—and for Android.

The company says an expansion of privacy features in Messenger is unrelated to a high-profile Nebraska abortion case.

Felix Krause: A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram opening links in a custom in-app browser on iOS lets Meta track every interaction, including entering passwords  —  The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser.

Bloomberg: As Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave prepares for an IPO, it faces allegations of financial impropriety, a culture of harassment and bullying, and more  —  Africa’s largest startup Flutterwave Inc. is battling allegations of financial impropriety and personnel harassment from Lagos to Nairobi …

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the FTC plans to begin writing online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children  —  Lack of a broad federal law has become a growing concern as online platforms and others amass troves of consumers’ search […]

A component of computer processors that connects different parts of the chip can be exploited by malicious agents who seek to steal secret information from programs running on the computer, MIT researchers have found. Modern computer processors contain many computing units, called cores, which share the same hardware resources. The on-chip interconnect is the component […]

Before the flagship phone ever landed in users’ hands, the security team thoroughly hacked it by finding bugs and developing exploits.

The chat between a teen and her mom about an alleged abortion helped police build their case. Default end-to-end encryption would help others avoid their fate.

The former president tried to connect the raid to the Watergate burglars. His privacy problems do relate to Nixon’s scandal—but not in the way he thinks.

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Elliptic: cross-chain bridge RenBridge has been used to launder $540M in crime-related crypto cash since 2020; Conti ransomware group used it to launder $53M+  —  – RenBridge has been used to launder at least $540 million in crime-related crypto cash since 2020, according to new research from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.

Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: Bumble reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $220.5M, vs. $219.4 est., a net loss of $6.4M, vs. $2.6M est., and a Q3 guidance below estimates; shares fall 10%+  —  Online dating company trims 2022 revenue guidance; shares slide 11%  —  Bumble Inc. BMBL -1.68%▼ sales climbed in the […]

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Disney hits 221.1M global streaming subscribers in Q3, surpassing Netflix’s 220.7M; Disney+ had 152.1M subscribers, Hulu had 46.2M, and ESPN+ had 22.8M  —  The Walt Disney Company reported on Wednesday that total Disney+ subscriptions rose to 152.1 million during the company’s third-quarter, posting better-than-expected results.

Northern Virginia is home to many American Civil War battlefield sites as well as the largest concentration of data centres in the world. Plans for more data centres are now pitting preservationists and big technology companies against each other

An experiment using solar concentrators, which focus sunlight to a point, to roast green chillies suggests it may be possible to build portable solar cookers

A robot equipped with AI image recognition can identify and map rubbish on the seafloor to help prioritise clean-up operations towards the most toxic materials

            President L. Rafael Reif and Vice President for Research Maria Zuber were among those on hand Tuesday when President Biden signed the “CHIPS and Science” bill into law in an upbeat ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. The act provides $52 billion in federal funding to advance the U.S. semiconductor industry […]

MIT researchers have developed a method for 3D printing materials with tunable mechanical properties, that sense how they are moving and interacting with the environment. The researchers create these sensing structures using just one material and a single run on a 3D printer. To accomplish this, the researchers began with 3D-printed lattice materials and incorporated […]

Caspar Hare and Georgia Perakis have been appointed the new associate deans of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC), a cross-cutting initiative in the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. Their new roles will take effect on Sept. 1. “Infusing social and ethical aspects of computing in academic research and education is […]

Companies need a more holistic approach to developing talent.

Not everyone is naturally empathic, but it’s a critical leadership skill.

Five ways to manage your time and energy while following through on commitments.

Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: After suffering huge losses, SoftBank plans to reduce its Alibaba stake from 23.7% as of June 30 to 14.6%, raising around $34B in the current quarter  —  Japanese tech investor has been reducing its ties to the Chinese e-commerce company and using holdings to raise cash

Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: Snap launches Snapchat+ in India for ~$0.62 per month, offering exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features; the service costs $3.99/month in the US  —  Snapchat+, which unlocks a collection of exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features, will be available for a monthly fee of Rs 49

Bloomberg: Indonesian digital wallet maker Dana raised $250M from local conglomerate Sinar Mas and Alibaba’s Lazada Group and says it processes 10M transactions/day  —  Dana, one of Indonesia’s biggest digital wallet providers, has raised $250 million from local conglomerate Sinar Mas …

As an undergraduate at MIT, Jana Saadi had to find a way to fulfill her humanities class requirements. Little did she know that her decision would heavily shape her academic career. On a whim, Saadi had joined a friend in a class offered through MIT D-Lab, a project-based program aimed at helping poor communities around […]

New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.

The fact that a search of Donald Trump’s Florida home was even necessary says a lot.

Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head.

The Information: Source: BeReal had 7.9M DAUs in July, up from 2M in January 2022; this spring, BeReal raised a Series B led by DST Global at a pre-money valuation of $600M  —  The siren song of a fast-growing social media network still holds investors spellbound.  —  Take BeReal.

CNBC: Court and financial docs show a complex relationship between Voyager and Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda, including a possible $1.6B crypto asset loan from Voyager  —  – Voyager Digital bankruptcy court proceedings and financial documents show a complex relationship between the company and Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto firms.