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Stop blaming execution, and start identifying the underlying flaws.

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With prices above $1,000 at the low end, MSI’s Katana GF66 no-frills gaming laptop struggles to make a mark as a value-for-money machine.

The tiny spacecraft is set to explore an orbit for a planned space station that will travel around the moon and serve as a staging point for future missions.

The color debate that broke the internet raised new questions about the relationship between perception and consciousness.

Jonathan Greig / The Record: The CISA and US Coast Guard Cyber Command warn companies of Log4Shell exploits in the wild, citing one incident of threat actors exfiltrating over 130GB of data  —  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) …

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: Coinbase Derivatives Exchange is launching its first crypto derivatives product, Nano Bitcoin futures (BIT), at 1/100th of the size of a Bitcoin, on June 27  —  Coinbase Derivatives Exchange hopes to capitalize on a market that is $3 trillion in volume worldwide and provide hedging options for traders.

Leo Schwartz / Rest of World: Facebook has emerged in Mexico City as a low-cost alternative to food delivery services like Uber Eats and Rappi, as restaurateurs seek to avoid high fees  —  The platform has emerged as a hack around Uber Eats and Rappi’s high fees.  —  • XOCHIMILCO, MEXICO

Volunteers who maintain the standard of content on Reddit’s forums do 466 hours of work every day – labour that would cost 2.8 per cent of the firm’s revenue

When you picture a hospital radiologist, you might think of a specialist who sits in a dark room and spends hours poring over X-rays to make diagnoses. Contrast that with your dentist, who in addition to interpreting X-rays must also perform surgery, manage staff, communicate with patients, and run their business. When dentists analyze X-rays, […]

The spyware has been used to target people in Italy, Kazakhstan, and Syria, researchers at Google and Lookout have found.

#HonestyTest videos, which reward people for being “good,” show a skewed view of who deserves kindness.

We filled these bags to the brim with our tech, wallets, and water bottles. They held up to the test.

Reuters: Yandex says it has made YaLM 100B, its language model for AI research, publicly available, and claims it contains 100B parameters  —  Russian technology company Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Thursday it had made a large language model for artificial intelligence research open to the public …

Jessica Lucas / Input: A look at r/LossPrevention, a subreddit for busting shoplifters; members monitor Reddit’s pro-shoplifting community and share videos of people being apprehended  —  Alex McLeod is an adrenaline junkie.  The 24-year-old, who lives in Ontario, Canada, is an avid martial artist with plans to sign up for a professional fighting league.

Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: Report: video game revenue in China fell for a third consecutive month in May 2022, down 6.7% YoY to $3.4B, amid a slowing economy and regulatory uncertainties  —  China’s video gaming revenue fell 6.7 per cent to US$3.4 billion in May, driven mostly by a decline in mobile […]

An analysis of 120 of the world’s top-ranked English-language websites has found that many of them allow weak passwords, including those that can be easily guessed, such as “abc123456” and “P@$$w0rd”

Little robots shaped like staples called “smarticles” can’t move around on their own, but researchers have now found that they can randomly form structures with other robots to move about

The inner child in many of us feels an overwhelming sense of joy when stumbling across a pile of the fluorescent, rubbery mixture of water, salt, and flour that put goo on the map: play dough. (Even if this happens rarely in adulthood.) While manipulating play dough is fun and easy for 2-year-olds, the shapeless […]

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway has won the 2022 European Inventor Award, in the category for Non-European Patent Office Countries, for his work on liquid metal batteries that could enable the long-term storage of renewable energy. Sadoway is the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and a […]

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In the pandemic’s early days, government-backed public health apps acquired millions of users—a ready-made audience developers are eager to tap.

After months of digging into privacy and security issues around these apps, I have some serious concerns.

The social media giant banned networks of fake accounts for promoting disinformation, spam, or propaganda—and kept the money it made from ads.

Bloomberg: Seeking to regain relevance, screenshots show Clubhouse is testing private rooms, called Houses, to encourage friendlier social interactions  —  Clubhouse, the voice chat app that captured the attention of Hollywood and Silicon Valley early in the pandemic, is experimenting with a new feature that lets users join private groups.

Wall Street Journal: An in-depth look at the LUNA and UST fallout, as Do Kwon says he has been “devastated” but has “great confidence in our ability to build back even stronger”  —  Luna’s relaunch might be the ultimate act of chutzpah by the South Korean entrepreneur

New York Times: Sources: the metaverse, not securing elections, is now Mark Zuckerberg’s top priority; Meta has ~60 people focused on elections, down from 300 in 2020  —  Mark Zuckerberg, who once said securing elections was “the most important thing,” has shifted Meta’s focus to the metaverse.

Hesitancy, bureaucracy, inequity, and the need to explain new formulas could slow down vaccine delivery to the last unprotected group.

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The privacy-focused company’s new Goggles tool allows users to weed out the noise—whatever that might mean.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Courier, which provides tools to send and build notifications across multiple channels including email, web, text, and mobile, raised a $35M Series B led by GV  —  App notifications, well intentioned or no, have become a part of daily life.  A 2018 study out of Duke University estimated that …

Jared Newman / Fast Company: Valve’s Steam Deck, which runs Arch Linux and lets users install software from anywhere unlike other game consoles, makes a great case against walled gardens  —  The Steam Deck is a portable gaming system that breaks the biggest rule of gaming systems.  —  Unlike practically every major …

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: MasterClass, which offers celebrity-taught online classes, laid off around 120 employees, or 20% of its team; sources: MasterClass was valued at $2.75B in 2021  —  MasterClass, an education platform that sells subscriptions to celebrity-taught classes, has cut 20% of its team to …

Artificial intelligence that creates realistic three-dimensional images could be run on a laptop and make it faster and easier to create animated films

In the final 2022 Division III LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup standings, MIT finished in fourth place overall as the Engineers ended the 2021-22 academic year with 936.75 points. This marks the second-highest finish in MIT history as the Engineers climbed two spots following a tremendous performance in the spring season. Fall highlights Men’s cross country finished […]

It would seem that engineering is in Ritu Raman’s blood. Her mother is a chemical engineer, her father is a mechanical engineer, and her grandfather is a civil engineer. A common thread among her childhood experiences was witnessing firsthand the beneficial impact that engineering careers could have on communities. One of her earliest memories is […]

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Even though they may seem more modest than our fictions imagined, creatures like the boar and the rabbit have become the real Godzillas.

The legal challenges are steep, but scientists are recording the war’s devastating impact on Ukraine’s land and wildlife.

Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg: Hired: despite D&I initiatives, female African American tech workers earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020  —  As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen …

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Google redesigns News, elevating local news and fact checks, and relaunches the service in Spain after eight years, following Spain adopting EU copyright rules  —  Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced …

Tom Matsuda / The Block: Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe plans to go public via SPAC on the Nasdaq, valuing it at $3.6B  —  – Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC called Goldenstone Acquisition.  — The company says it will be valued at $3.6 billion […]

For Erin Walk, who has loved school since she was a little girl, pursuing a graduate degree always seemed like a given. As a mechanical engineering major at Harvard University with a minor in government, she figured that going to graduate school in engineering would be the next logical step. However, during her senior year, […]

Artificial intelligence use is booming, but it’s not the secret weapon you might imagine.

After three aborted attempts, engineers successfully completed a practice countdown that included filling the tanks with liquid oxygen and hydrogen.