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Lending to mid-market companies has fallen nearly 60% over the last year.

What voice should society have in governing the new technologies that firms create?

If your wearable struggles to make it through the day, these power-saving tips can help.

Coastal lands are subsiding and losing elevation—a “hidden vulnerability” that’s making rising seas all the worse.

The AI-powered chat interface transformed the second-place search engine into a trendsetter. Now the company is integrating ads and working on accuracy.

Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal: Experts say 5G’s next iteration, 5.5G, could help autonomous cars, drones, and more, but everyday users may not see many applications beyond faster speeds  —  Mobile companies say an upgrade is coming in a couple of years that will boost connection speeds amid flagging consumer interest

GOV.UK: The UK CMA blocks Microsoft’s $68.7B Activision acquisition, citing concerns about competition and innovation in the UK gaming market; Microsoft plans to appeal  —  The CMA has prevented Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future …

New York Times: A look at the mounting US pressure on Binance: the DOJ’s money laundering division leading its criminal investigation, CZ hiring Latham & Watkins, and more  —  The scrutiny on Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange, has sent new tremors through a market that is still bruised by the implosion of FTX.

An experimental update to Ethereum, the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency, has led to a dramatic reduction in the energy used to secure the currency and verify transactions

Millimetre-sized robots made of iron oxide and packed with yeast speed up fermentation of beer by swimming around in the fermenting container and can be removed with a magnet, eliminating the need for filtering out yeast

As a person with a mixed-race background who has lived in four different cities, Amelia Dogan describes her early life as “growing up in a lot of in-betweens.” Now an MIT senior, she continues to link different perspectives together, working at the intersection of urban planning, computer science, and social justice. Dogan was born in […]

The government wants the metaverse to be less about having fun and shopping and more about health care and industry.

Even if you signed up purely for Ted Lasso, there’s a lot more you should check out on the streamer.

The cybercriminals behind the Gootloader malware have found clever ways to avoid detection. But researchers are using those same mechanisms to stop them.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: News sharing app Artifact adds an AI tool to generate article summaries, while noting users should still read the full articles due to occasional errors  —  Artifact, the personalized news aggregator from Instagram’s founders is further embracing AI with the launch of a new feature that will now summarize news articles […]

Bloomberg: Nick Clegg says TikTok’s presence in the US, while China bars Meta, isn’t a level playing field, and new tech like AI shouldn’t be based on autocratic values  —  Meta Platforms Inc.’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, called into question the values of TikTok by invoking …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Yelp announces a series of updates, including AI-powered search suggestions and review highlights, and the ability to upload short videos up to 12 seconds long  —  Yelp announced today that it’s introducing a series of new updates, including an enhanced AI-powered search experience and the ability to add videos to reviews.

MIT graduate students Kat Kajderowicz and Shomik Verma, alumni Desmond Edwards ’22 and Steven Truong ’20, and Vaibhav Mohanty, an MD-PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, are among the 30 recipients of this year’s Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The P.D. Soros Fellowships for New Americans program […]

The internationally renowned Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT has announced the 10 elite science journalists who will make up its 2023-24 fellowship class. Selected from more than 100 applicants, the group comprises award-winning print, audio, and multimedia journalists hailing from seven countries and five continents. “We’re excited to welcome such an accomplished group of […]

MIT Solve has announced Hala Hanna as its new executive director. Solve is a marketplace for social impact innovation with a mission to drive innovation to solve world challenges. Hanna has more than 15 years of experience working across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, with the purpose of creating a more equitable and sustainable […]

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The same behaviors that feel dangerous to employees are precisely what organizations need to thrive in an uncertain economic climate.

Can design thinking help a nonprofit organization sustain both innovation and its human impact into the future?

The death of a jogger in northern Italy has turned the reintroduction of bears into a fraught political issue.

The US Supreme Court’s upcoming decision could shift the interpretation of fair use law—and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection.

Don’t panic. Instead, teach your beloved offspring to answer the Three Questions of Streaming.

Annachiara Biondi / Financial Times: On TikTok, guides to buying “dupes” of pricey luxury items are gaining a following and sparking a debate over knock-offs; #dupes has 2.1B views and #Reps 1.9B  —  On TikTok, guides to buying ‘dupes’ of pricey luxury items are gaining a following  —  In 2012, a classic Chanel flap bag […]

David Pierce / The Verge: Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool for each channel with document creation, editing, and more, announced in September 2022  —  The best thing about Slack’s new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you.  It’s like Google Docs but inside of Slack.

Bloomberg: Filing: SMIC-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing Electronics Shaoxing plans to raise $1.4B in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market as Beijing battles US curbs  —  A chip foundry backed by China’s top semiconductor firm is set to raise $1.4 billion in Asia’s biggest initial public offering so far this year …

Researchers are working on edible computer chips to control robots that can operate inside the human body to precisely deliver drugs before safely being digested

U.S. News and Word Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings. The Institute has held the No. 1 spot since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs. The MIT Sloan School of Management also placed highly. It occupies the No. 4 spot for the best […]

MIT engineers have designed a two-component system that can be injected into the body and help form blood clots at the sites of internal injury. These materials, which mimic the way that the body naturally forms clots, could offer a way to keep people with severe internal injuries alive until they can reach a hospital. […]

Mass spectrometers are extremely precise chemical analyzers that have many applications, from evaluating the safety of drinking water to detecting toxins in a patient’s blood. But building an inexpensive, portable mass spectrometer that could be deployed in remote locations remains a challenge, partly due to the difficulty of miniaturizing the vacuum pump it needs to […]

Tools like ChatGPT have the potential to displace human creativity — but people still offer unique value.

To protect its Confidential Computing cloud infrastructure and gain critical insights, Google leans on its relationships with chipmakers.

Renewable generation projects are set to make this future fuel widely available. And it’s much more versatile than you think.

The Edge says the band’s forthcoming Las Vegas residency is the “dawn of a new creative genre.”

André Beganski / Decrypt: Coinbase asks a US federal court to force the SEC to respond to a petition Coinbase filed in July 2022, demanding clearer crypto regulations  —  The cryptocurrency exchange filed the petition along with a long list of questions last July. … Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal wrote …

James Hercher / AdExchanger: On April 23, a Meta ad system glitch caused some campaigns to overspend beyond their daily cost cap; agencies say they have had “next to no feedback” from Meta  —  Hope you had a peaceful Sunday.  —  If you’re a Facebook advertiser, though, that may not have been the case.

Christian Vasquez / CyberScoop: A group of operational technology cybersecurity vendors launches ETHOS, an open-source portal to share early warnings about threats to critical infrastructure  —  The biggest companies working in industrial cybersecurity are building an early-warning platform called ETHOS to share threat intelligence.

An electrochemical transistor made from balsa wood opens up the possibility of embedding sensors and other electronic devices in plants, which could help in agriculture and forest management

A material made from a protein in the silk of spiders can rapidly seal any breaks and would work in wearable electronics to monitor your health

Companies creating the new generation of chatbots and other generative AI are shy about sharing their code and data. That has to change

Martin Wainwright, the Cecil H. Green Professor in MIT’s departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Mathematics, has been named the new director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), effective July 1. “Martin is a widely recognized leader in statistics and machine learning — both in research and in education. […]

Tahmina S. was a junior studying computer engineering at a top university in Afghanistan when a new government policy banned women from pursuing education. In August 2021, the Taliban prohibited girls from attending school beyond the sixth grade. While women were initially allowed to continue to attend universities, by October 2021, an order from the […]

Eight MIT faculty members are among more than 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 19. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to […]

To shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from.

Cold Call is celebrating 200 episodes with a special series, including the show team’s favorite episodes from the archives.

A leader must learn how he can enhance his team’s impact, despite conflicting organizational priorities.