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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple says iOS 16 will support “select” iPhone models using Face ID in landscape orientation; iOS 16 beta 1 limits landscape Face ID to iPhone 12 and iPhone 13  —  iOS 16 will finally allow you to unlock your iPhone in landscape.  On the iOS 16 features page …

A flying robot inspired by peregrine falcons offers a non-lethal method for scaring flocks of birds from crop fields

A supercomputer called Frontier has been officially crowned as the world’s first exascale computer – one capable of a billion billion operations per second – but more powerful machines may be out there

A pop-up hearing aid exposition called HearWeAre. A travel agency that matches older and younger travelers for group adventures. An app that guides outgoing hospital patients through every step of the discharge process. These are a few of the projects presented by students on the final day in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and […]

For the most creative minds to work together to solve the world’s greatest challenges, it is essential for global collaboration to be unencumbered by distance. The MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) Global Seed Funds (GSF) program enables participating faculty teams to collaborate across borders with international partners to develop and launch joint research […]

As babies, we babble and imitate our way to learning languages. We don’t start off reading raw text, which requires fundamental knowledge and understanding about the world, as well as the advanced ability to interpret and infer descriptions and relationships. Rather, humans begin our language journey slowly, by pointing and interacting with our environment, basing […]

Six strategies to ensure you’re crafting a strategy that your company can actually execute.

Four practices to help organizations evolve.

As flex work becomes the norm, companies need to find new ways to keep people in the loop.

Startups like Solid Power are beginning to roll out solid-state batteries that meet the needs of EVs. But hurdles remain for manufacturing them at scale.

DJI branches out from drones again, this time with a wireless mic system that’s one of the best simple options.

At least one employee borrowed $100,000 from the company—and now has just 30 days to pay it back.

Michael McGowan / The Guardian: A federal judge in Australia orders Google to pay an ex-politician $715K for doing “nothing to prevent” YouTuber Friendlyjordies’ “abusive” videos about him  —  Tech giant and comedian Jordan Shanks may face contempt of court charges over videos published during trial

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: AppOmni, which helps find and secure vulnerabilities in SaaS app stacks, raises a $70M Series C led by Thoma Bravo, bringing its total funding to $123M  —  As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity.

Wall Street Journal: A profile of billionaire crypto investor Mike Novogratz, who got a Luna tattoo before its collapse and whose publicly traded Galaxy Digital is down 69% YTD  —  The Wall Street star became so enamored with cryptocurrencies he had one of them tattooed to his arm.  Then the market crashed.

Shopping for a new phone can be an ordeal. Let us take some of the pain out of it with these WIRED-tested picks and tips.

Polar’s newest fitness watch is aimed at runners, but the software is hard to use, and it lacks some basic features.

More than 30 years ago, Andreas Floer changed geometry. Now, two mathematicians have finally figured out how to extend his revolutionary perspective.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Reco, which monitors organizations’ internal and external data sharing for security issues, raises a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners and Zeev Ventures  —  Reco (also known as RecoLabs), a company using AI to map a company’s data sharing, today announced that it raised $30 million …

Juli Clover / MacRumors: What to expect at WWDC22: overhauled iOS 16 lock screen with widgets, more laptop-like iPadOS 16 multitasking, redesigned MacBook Air, and more, but no headset  —  Apple’s 33rd annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to kick off on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. Like the 2020 and 2021 events …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is working on VR versions of FaceTime and Maps, SwiftUI for AR and VR apps, and extending a Mac’s display to its headset, bringing it into 3D  —  Apple is set to hold its WWDC event on Monday, ushering in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, tvOS 16, watchOS 9 and […]

Emily Birnbaum / Politico: In an email chain mistakenly forwarded to Politico, an Amazon spokesperson asked a consultant to push a narrative that the AICO Act would harm people of color  —  It’s the latest instance of a tech company arguing that regulation would harm communities of color.

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: A look at Democrats’ efforts to pass the AICO Act, which bans Big Tech companies from favoring their products, before the November midterms or end of the year  —  – A major piece of legislation that could reshape the tech industry is just a few steps away from becoming law.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Hourly, an app that lets businesses track working hours, generate payroll, and assign compensation insurance to hourly wage workers, raises a $27M Series A  —  We’ve seen a boom in the last several years around tech built for front-line, service, manual, and other workforces typically paid on an hourly wage.

Although originally published in 1965, Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel is still relevant.

Cancel your evening plans, because these titles will keep you engaged for hours on end.

Plus: A new Microsoft Surface laptop, sharable holograms, and Google cleans up its messaging mess.

Reuters: Yandex CEO and co-founder Arkady Volozh resigns after being included in the latest European Union’s sanctions list; the company itself has not been sanctioned  —  Russian internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Friday that Arkady Volozh had stepped down as CEO and left the board of directors …

Moneycontrol: Filings: ByteDance, which is reportedly planning to re-enter India, has fully exited its investment in VerSe, parent of Josh and DailyHunt, at a 56% discount  —  ByteDance received $102.67 million for its entire investment.  Considering VerSe Innovation’s $805-million primary fundraise in April …

Jena McGregor / Forbes: Guild Education, a marketplace for lower-skilled workers to find higher education programs, raises a $175M Series F at a $4.4B valuation, up from $3.75B in 2021  —  New!  Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it!  —  Guild Education cofounder and CEO Rachel Romer Carlson …

The Canada-based company illegally collected “vast amounts of location data,” such as every time a person entered or left their home, workplace, or another coffee shop.

OK, we’re 50 years late, but WIRED (finally) caught up with one of only six people to ever ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon’s surface.

Dairy groups have argued that using the name for plant-based drinks confuses people. Critics say their real motivation is declining sales.

Betsy Joles / Rest of World: A look at “migrant TikTok”, content by and for migrants journeying to Europe, as platforms struggle to moderate videos referring to illegal smuggling  —  Videos on the harrowing journey between Africa and Europe offer valuable information — and tease a brighter future for migrants

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Rather than expecting users to read and consent to overwhelming privacy policies, laws and tech can help give them real privacy choices  —  Let’s abolish reading privacy policies.  Here’s how we can use the law and technology to give us real privacy choices.

Nikhil Patwardhan / Moneycontrol: Customer engagement service MoEngage raises a $77M Series E led by Goldman Sachs and B Capital; MoEngage has raised close to $140M over the past 12 months  —  MoEngage says it has grown its annualised recurring revenue by more than 105 percent In the last 12 months, and has added 500 […]

Love, Death + Robots director David S. F. Wilson wants to make an atmospheric animated feature film.

The company continues to downplay the severity of the Follina vulnerability, which remains present in all supported versions of Windows.

Curls and waves are beautiful. But when you want to smooth them out, these hot tools—irons, brushes, and combs—work wonders.

Fadeke Adegbuyi / every.to: Q&A with Don Caldwell, EIC of Know Your Meme, a 15-year old online encyclopedia of memes with 10 full-time editorial staff, on uncovering meme origins and more  —  Think of any meme.  It could be the scribbled image of party goers and one man—off alone to the side …

Melia Russell / Insider: Tiger Global-backed email service Superhuman lays off 23 employees, about 22% of its workforce; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in August 2021  —  – Email app Superhuman laid off 22% of its workforce on Friday, the CEO said in a tweet.  — Superhuman makes a premium email app for power […]

Mike Millard / The Block: 2TM, the parent company of Brazil’s largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin, dismisses over 80 employees, or ~12% of its staff; 2TM was valued at $2.1B in 2021  —  Brazil’s 2TM, a holding company for Mercado Bitcoin, the country’s biggest crypto exchange by market valuation, dismissed more than 80 employees this […]

“Refugees can change the world with access to education,” says Alnarjes Harba, a refugee from Syria who recently shared her story at the 2022 Migration Summit — a first-of-its-kind, global convening to address the challenges that displaced communities face in accessing education and employment. At the age of 13, Harba was displaced to Lebanon, where […]

Since he was young, Chih-Wei Joshua Liu ’22 always knew he wanted to be a “physician-scientist,” pursuing research at the intersection of basic science and medicine.  “Growing up, I wanted to do work that concretely helps people,” says Liu. “I also wanted to further our understanding of the universe. Physics describes how nature behaves. From equations, […]

Dairy farmers around the world have an information problem. To get the most accurate measurements of cow health and milk quality, many have to ship milk samples to labs or wait for a technician to come to the farm to collect milk samples from each cow. Now Labby, a startup founded by two MIT alumni, […]

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Few companies report the impact of operations they don’t fully control — but scrutiny on these investments is growing.

Honor’s first post-Huawei flagship draws on the latter’s past successes with a glorious display and great photos. But it’s no longer on par with the best.

With the MOM Network, Alaska and Willam are giving fans a new window into the drag community.