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This Massive Game Bundle Costs $10 and Benefits Ukraine Charities

The collection spans hundreds of games, and donations go straight to organizations assisting Ukraine.

Sources: Chinese brands have cut their smartphone shipments to Russia in half since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because of the ruble’s collapse and sanctions (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Chinese brands have cut their smartphone shipments to Russia in half since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because of the ruble’s collapse and sanctions — Currency and sanctions stop China’s companies from taking advantage of exodus of western brands

An investigation into OnlyFans owner Leo Radvinsky, who has attracted law enforcement scrutiny amid reports of wage theft and potential underage sexual activity (Scott Stedman/Forensic News)

Scott Stedman / Forensic News: An investigation into OnlyFans owner Leo Radvinsky, who has attracted law enforcement scrutiny amid reports of wage theft and potential underage sexual activity — The first digital trace of Leo Radvinsky dates back to 1997 when Radvinsky, then just 15-years-old, acted as a webmaster …

Sources: India’s market regulator has tightened scrutiny of IPO-bound firms after Paytm’s IPO debacle, worrying startups which fear delays in listing plans (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: India’s market regulator has tightened scrutiny of IPO-bound firms after Paytm’s IPO debacle, worrying startups which fear delays in listing plans — India has tightened scrutiny of IPO-bound firms by questioning how key internal business metrics are used to arrive at valuations …

Clubhouse’s Fall From Grace

Plus: The audio app’s explosive growth, a sequel to After Life, and spiders from the skies.

The Hypocrisy of Disney’s Response to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill

The Mouse House seems to have had several changes of heart.

Can an Online Course Help Big Tech Find Its Soul?

The Foundations of Humane Technology is an eight-hour class for Silicon Valley’s disillusioned workers.

Mark Bernstein, a prominent Russian Wikipedia editor, is detained in Belarus for “distributing fake anti-Russian information” after being doxxed on Telegram (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Victoria Song / The Verge: Mark Bernstein, a prominent Russian Wikipedia editor, is detained in Belarus for “distributing fake anti-Russian information” after being doxxed on Telegram — The editor was doxxed on Telegram prior to the arrest — The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus …

Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club, acquires NFT collections CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva Labs, along with 400+ CryptoPunks and 1.7K+ Meebits (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club, acquires NFT collections CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva Labs, along with 400+ CryptoPunks and 1.7K+ Meebits — Yuga Labs now controls three of the most valuable NFT collections on the market — Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club […]

Uber will add a temporary $.45-$.55 surcharge per trip for US and Canada riders, and $.35-$.45 for Uber Eats due to higher gas prices; fees will go to drivers (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Uber will add a temporary $.45-$.55 surcharge per trip for US and Canada riders, and $.35-$.45 for Uber Eats due to higher gas prices; fees will go to drivers — – Uber is adding a surcharge on fares and deliveries in the U.S. and Canada in response to surging gas prices, […]

Drones and AI help find pebble-sized meteorite that landed in 2021

Locating meteorites on Earth’s surface is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but using AI to analyse images captured by drones pinpointed a tiny space rock in just four days

Why hasn’t Russia waged an all-out cyberwar against Ukraine?

Is Russia holding off on cyberwarfare while it has troops in Ukraine, or are cyberattacks failing to land thanks to vast international efforts to protect the country?

Simple mathematical trick could slash AI development time in half

Training artificial intelligences to identify faces or digitise text involves thousands or millions of iterations of a two-stage process known as back-propagation, but a new approach could save time, energy and computing power

How to clean solar panels without water

Solar power is expected to reach 10 percent of global power generation by the year 2030, and much of that is likely to be located in desert areas, where sunlight is abundant. But the accumulation of dust on solar panels or mirrors is already a significant issue — it can reduce the output of photovoltaic […]

HBS Professor Linda Hill Says Leaders Must Engage with Emotions as Never Before

Skills leaders need today from the professor who wrote the book on leadership.

To Make Deals in the Middle Market, Private Equity Needs Cultural Literacy

Doing business starts with building mutual trust and respect.

What Stops Managers from Looking to Other Industries for Inspiration

It’s a smart strategy. But people often lack the mandate, authority, or confidence to make it happen.

Turning Red Doesn’t Follow Pixar’s Rules. Good

The studio’s early works were lauded for their “universal” storytelling. Its new approach champions personal stories—and audiences are the richer for it.

Is Your Motivation Wavering? A Coaching App Might Help

Choosing an app to help you reach your goals can be tricky. Here’s how to find one that gets results.

Which iPhone Should You Buy (or Avoid) Right Now?

Picking the right phone has gotten so much harder. Our breakdown of Apple’s lineup can help.

A look at Loli Police Department, a police roleplay group in VRChat allowing nearly 11,000 of its members move through the ranks based on their activity level (Jessica Lucas/Input)

Jessica Lucas / Input: A look at Loli Police Department, a police roleplay group in VRChat allowing nearly 11,000 of its members move through the ranks based on their activity level — Early last year, Jura was at the spa, chilling in a communal bath and having a casual chat with friends, when the Loli […]

EU and the UK open an antitrust probe into Google and Meta’s Jedi Blue deal on online ads; EU is also probing whether Google acted without Meta’s knowledge (Financial Times)

Financial Times: EU and the UK open an antitrust probe into Google and Meta’s Jedi Blue deal on online ads; EU is also probing whether Google acted without Meta’s knowledge — Europe’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager tells FT that ‘Jedi Blue’ deal represents ‘giant problem’ in industry

India-based 100ms, which lets developers add video conferencing to their apps, raises a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $24.5M (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch)

Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: India-based 100ms, which lets developers add video conferencing to their apps, raises a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $24.5M — 100ms, the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps …

Computational modeling guides development of new materials

Metal-organic frameworks, a class of materials with porous molecular structures, have a variety of possible applications, such as capturing harmful gases and catalyzing chemical reactions. Made of metal atoms linked by organic molecules, they can be configured in hundreds of thousands of different ways. To help researchers sift through all of the possible metal-organic framework […]

Historic entrepreneurship course shows no signs of slowing down

In a process that has taken place for more than 60 years at MIT, this week a group of students gathered to practice entrepreneurship at a whirlwind pace designed to mimic the steep learning curve required to start a company. MIT’s course 15.390 (New Enterprises) has been held every year since 1961 — a time […]

Yen-Jie Lee probes particle collision data for clues to the universe’s origins

When Yen-Jie Lee came to MIT as a graduate student in 2006, it was a bit of a culture shock. The aspiring particle physicist had studied physics at National Taiwan University before his career took a hiatus in the forested mountains of Taiwan. There, he worked as a marine corps lieutenant to fulfill the nation’s […]

How a New Digital Dollar Could Shake the US Financial System

The Biden administration is looking into a government-issued digital currency. The implications would be profound.

After Yang Will Make You Grieve For a Robot

The beautiful and strange new movie from South Korean filmmaker Kogonada presents a very different view of an AI-enhanced future.

The Situation at Chernobyl Is Deteriorating

The defunct site of the infamous 1986 meltdown has lost power two weeks after it was seized by Russian forces. Experts fear another nuclear disaster looms.

Twitter removes tweets by Russia’s embassy in London that claimed images from the Mariupol hospital bombing in Ukraine were fake, citing hateful conduct policy (Ilena Peng/Bloomberg)

Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: Twitter removes tweets by Russia’s embassy in London that claimed images from the Mariupol hospital bombing in Ukraine were fake, citing hateful conduct policy — Twitter Inc. has removed false tweets from the Russian embassy account in London that claimed images from the bombing of a children’s …

NonFungible: Axie Infinity had $3.5B in NFT transactions in 2021, almost two thirds of the blockchain gaming industry; NBA Top Shot had $827M and Loot $242M (Zhiyuan Sun/Cointelegraph)

Zhiyuan Sun / Cointelegraph: NonFungible: Axie Infinity had $3.5B in NFT transactions in 2021, almost two thirds of the blockchain gaming industry; NBA Top Shot had $827M and Loot $242M — In second and third place were sports highlights marketplace NBA Top Shot with $827 million and community gaming platform Loot with $242 million, respectively.

Oracle reports Q3 revenue of $10.51B, up 4% YoY, cloud services and license support revenue of $7.6B, up 5% YoY, but misses with EPS of $1.13 vs est. of $1.18 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle reports Q3 revenue of $10.51B, up 4% YoY, cloud services and license support revenue of $7.6B, up 5% YoY, but misses with EPS of $1.13 vs est. of $1.18 — – Oracle met expectations for revenue but fell short on earnings for the fiscal third quarter.

The Cyber Insurance Market Needs More Money

Securities could help give insurers the breathing room they need to keep growing — and meet customers’ mounting needs.

3 Practices That Set Resilient Teams Apart

First, they know that “collaboration” doesn’t always mean “meetings.”

How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut

Five strategies to strengthen your sixth sense.

The Infinite Reach of Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Man in Washington

How one man came to rule political speech on Facebook, command one of the largest lobbies in DC, and guide Zuck through disaster—and straight into it.

A look at the Islamic world’s debate over cryptocurrencies, seen as gambling by some, as millions of people in Indonesia and the Middle East invest in crypto (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: A look at the Islamic world’s debate over cryptocurrencies, seen as gambling by some, as millions of people in Indonesia and the Middle East invest in crypto — Mu’aawiyah Tucker is a religious man. Because the Koran forbids the practice of earning interest on loans, Tucker has for years […]

London-based Lendable, which connects global institutional investors with borrowers, raises £210M led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at a £3.5B valuation (Harriet Agnew/Financial Times)

Harriet Agnew / Financial Times: London-based Lendable, which connects global institutional investors with borrowers, raises £210M led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at a £3.5B valuation — Ontario Teachers’ investment in fintech group part of broader shift into private assets

Display analyst Ross Young expects Apple will release a 27-inch mini-LED display in June; Kuo says Apple “may not launch” mini-LED products in 2022 due to cost (Sami Fathi/MacRumors)

Sami Fathi / MacRumors: Display analyst Ross Young expects Apple will release a 27-inch mini-LED display in June; Kuo says Apple “may not launch” mini-LED products in 2022 due to cost — Apple plans to launch a “Pro” version of its new Studio Display in June of this year that measures 27-inches …

Collision-dodging drones can navigate tight spaces without crashing

Two teams of engineers have taken separate approaches to enable drones to carry out research or rescue operations with a reduced risk of crashing

Study: Ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously thought

The rate of glacier ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously calculated, according to a new study by MIT researchers that upends a decades-old equation used to describe ice flow. Stress in this case refers to the forces acting on Antarctic glaciers, which are primarily influenced by gravity that drags the ice down […]

Volkswagen’s Electric ID. Buzz Looks Well Worth the Wait

VW’s all-electric people carrier has finally been revealed. It’s bursting with tech, can power your home, and even remember how you drive.

I’m a Ukrainian Official. Here’s What We Need on the Digital Front

Ukraine’s deputy minister of Digital Transformation says Western tech sanctions have helped—but it’s time to remove Russia from the global IT ecosystem.

Elden Ring Isn’t Made for All Gamers. I Wish It Were

The celebrated game has no difficulty modes, guaranteeing it will alienate some players.

Eight more current and former PlayStation employees add their accounts of sexist treatment to a class action lawsuit filed against the company in November 2021 (Stephen Totilo/Axios)

Stephen Totilo / Axios: Eight more current and former PlayStation employees add their accounts of sexist treatment to a class action lawsuit filed against the company in November 2021 — Eight more women, former and current employees at Sony PlayStation, have added their accounts of sexist treatment …

SoftBank’s Z Holdings plans to launch an NFT marketplace in 180 countries and double its fintech unit PayPay’s users to 90M, tapping a five-year ~$4.3B budget (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: SoftBank’s Z Holdings plans to launch an NFT marketplace in 180 countries and double its fintech unit PayPay’s users to 90M, tapping a five-year ~$4.3B budget — SoftBank Group Corp.’s Z Holdings Corp. unit is betting on non-fungible tokens and its PayPay service to drive growth …

Twitter tests labeling images with alt text with an “alt” badge, which will show an image’s description by clicking on it, rolling out globally in April (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)