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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Tencent, ByteDance, and others plan layoffs impacting thousands, after Chinese internet companies cut tens of thousands during regulatory crackdowns  —  Latest round of job cuts at Chinese tech giants comes even as Beijing signals easing of its regulatory campaign against the sector

Wired: Section 230 is the last line of defense for online abortion speech, without which platforms could face legal liability for distributing abortion information  —  Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Bloomberg: MarkSight: as crypto tumbles, the average price of Nvidia’s GeForce 3080 on eBay dropped from $1,140 on April 30 to $710 on June 27  —  The turmoil in the cryptocurrency industry has ravaged portfolios and left large and small investors struggling to adapt.

A buoy powered by the movement of waves could be used to sense water levels for early flood warning systems or to check long-term water quality

Explanation methods that help users understand and trust machine-learning models often describe how much certain features used in the model contribute to its prediction. For example, if a model predicts a patient’s risk of developing cardiac disease, a physician might want to know how strongly the patient’s heart rate data influences that prediction. But if […]

This July 4 marks 10 years since the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought particle that imparts mass to all elementary particles. The elusive particle was the last missing piece in the Standard Model of particle physics, which is our most complete model of the universe. In early summer of 2012, signs of the […]

As investment capital becomes less abundant and debt more expensive, companies need to reevaluate their plans.

Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The US Supreme Court’s privacy rulings chart an old battle and could inform life after Roe.

We’ve spent several years riding and testing extra-large ebikes for hauling little ones and getting around town.

CoinDesk: Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance  —  The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.

Wall Street Journal: Researchers say some businesses are exaggerating AI’s capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers’ views of AI’s power and fallibility  —  Google, Meta and OpenAI are investing heavily in the technology, which is increasingly capturing the public imagination

Bloomberg: EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets  —  The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement to force crypto providers to provide identifying information …

Unusual punctuation in headlines makes people more likely to share news stories on Facebook, but phrases like “this will blow your mind” are a turn-off, finds a study

Kerry Emanuel once joked that whenever he retired, he would start a “hurricane safari” so other people could experience what it’s like to fly into the eye of a hurricane. “All of a sudden, the turbulence stops, the sun comes out, bright sunshine, and it’s amazingly calm. And you’re in this grand stadium [of clouds […]

Carbon monoxide is best known as a potentially deadly gas. However, in small doses it also has beneficial qualities: It has been shown to reduce inflammation and can help stimulate tissue regeneration. A team of researchers led by MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the University of Iowa, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has now […]

Researchers from the Critical Analytics For Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have developed a new method of detecting adventitious microbial contamination in mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) cultures, ensuring the rapid and accurate testing of cell therapy products intended for use […]

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These tiny, adorable, rechargeable, and affordable synths fit in a backpack and make you sound like a modern-day A-ha.

The Galaxy A13 5G delivers excellent performance, more than a day of battery life, and class-leading software support.

What if Connect Four and The Amazing Race had a baby? WIRED spoke to Jet Lag creator Sam Denby about his new state-hopping whirlwind of a game show.

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Forbes estimates the top 16 crypto billionaires lost $59B+ between March and June, led by Binance’s CZ, as retail investors suffer heavy losses amid the rout  —  No cryptocurrency investor has been spared the pain of plunging prices.  But the fallout from more than $700 billion in losses is […]

Megha Paul / Tech.eu: UK-based Cleo, which offers an AI-powered financial assistance app aimed at Gen Z users, raised an $80M Series C led by Sofina  —  The British company, which has a US-first growth strategy, will utilise the funding to continue its growth in the U.S., including a significant increase in employee headcount

Steven Ehrlich / Forbes: After providing $750M in credit lines, Sam Bankman-Fried says some crypto companies are “too far gone” to save, “bearish views on Tether are wrong”, and more  —  After throwing lifelines to troubled digital currency platforms BlockFi and Voyager Digital, Sam Bankman-Fried …

Sound waves have been used to build complex structures in mid-air out of floating components and droplets of glue, showing the approach may have engineering and medical applications

For humans, finding a lost wallet buried under a pile of items is pretty straightforward — we simply remove things from the pile until we find the wallet. But for a robot, this task involves complex reasoning about the pile and objects in it, which presents a steep challenge. MIT researchers previously demonstrated a robotic […]

These over-ear active noise-canceling headphones are here to take on the mighty Sony XM5s. And that’s exactly what they do.

The company tapped digital design to turn its latest sedan into a sleek performance ride.

A German ad-tech trial features what Vodafone calls “digital tokens.” Should you be worried?

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Samsung Display acquires Germany-based OLED startup Cynora, which specialized in displays for foldable devices, for about $300M for its IP and tech  —  Samsung Display Co. has purchased display company Cynora GmbH for about $300 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter …

Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb says crypto investor Roger Ver owes CoinFLEX $47M in USDC, after Ver denied “some rumors” he defaulted on a debt to a counterparty  —  The crypto exchange is launching a recovery token because of debt owed by a high-net-worth customer.

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces Google Public Sector, a new division aiming to bring Google Cloud tech to US educational institutions and federal, state, and local governments  —  Google today is home to two divisions that have their own CEOs: Cloud and YouTube.  “Google Public Sector” was announced today as a …

A partially paralysed man who had been unable to use his fingers for about 30 years fed himself dessert using his mind and some smart robotic hands

Members of the public sector, private sector, and academia convened for the second AI Policy Forum Symposium last month to explore critical directions and questions posed by artificial intelligence in our economies and societies. The virtual event, hosted by the AI Policy Forum (AIPF) — an undertaking by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to […]

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A conversation about how Haier Group capitalizes on the resources and expertise of its ecosystem.

Can fintech startup Esusu use innovation to promote financial inclusion in America?

Machines that understand what their human teammates are doing could boost productivity without taking jobs.

A battle royale called the SMART program has charged teams with a daunting first task: Identify construction sites on Earth using only data from orbiters.

Zeng Yuqun is China’s most prolific battery billionaire. His ascent has major implications for a world increasingly reliant on electric vehicles.

Reuters: A Moscow court fines Twitch, Pinterest, Airbnb, and UPS for refusing to store Russian citizens’ personal data in Russia  —  A Moscow court said it had fined video streaming service Twitch, social network Pinterestand United Parcel Service in three of several cases expected on Tuesday …

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: FrontApp, which offers the Front customer communications tool, raised $65M led by Salesforce and Battery at a $1.7B post-money valuation, up from $859M in 2020  —  Customer communication software maker FrontApp Inc. is now valued at $1.7 billion after receiving $65 million in financing led by Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures.

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: Long-Term Stock Exchange, a Silicon Valley-based rival to the NYSE, raised $100M from James Walton, part of the Walmart family, and The Space Between  —  Silicon Valley’s Long-Term Stock Exchange gets a check from James Walton, who partnered with a venture fund

There’s an abandoned coal power plant in upstate New York that most people regard as a useless relic. But MIT’s Paul Woskov sees things differently. Woskov, a research engineer in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, notes the plant’s power turbine is still intact and the transmission lines still run to the grid. Using an […]

FOSTA/SESTA laws deplatformed sex workers and set the stage to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Wilfried Eckl-Dorna / Bloomberg: Siemens plans to buy Brightly, a North Carolina-based provider of buildings and infrastructure management software, from Clearlake Capital for $1.58B  —  Siemens AG will buy US firm Brightly Software for $1.58 billion to add digital services for buildings and infrastructure as the German company continues …

Olivia Snow / Wired: How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018  —  FOSTA/SESTA—laws that deplatformed sex workers—helped build the gallows for overturning Roe v. Wade.