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They must become more sophisticated in how they use data to gain visibility into patients’ behaviors and decisions.

A leader must embrace uncertainty and keep her team motivated after layoffs.

Looking to up your own audio quality on Zoom, YouTube, TikTok, or while gaming? Try some of these mics.

Ether is finally untethering itself from mining—and driving renewed debate about bitcoin’s environmental impact.

Videos obtained by WIRED from public transit vehicles reveal self-driving cars causing delays and potential danger to buses, trains, and passengers.

New York Times: A look at the impact of 34 US bitcoin mines and their extreme demand for energy, as the cost of electricity for locals increases in Texas and other areas  —  Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution.

Avram Piltch / Tom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi launches the browser-based Raspberry Pi Code Editor in beta, initially supporting Python, aiming to help young people learn to code  —  New editor is integrated with Python lessons.  —  When we think about Raspberry Pi, we normally picture single-board computers …

Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg: Emirates Telecom plans to buy a 50.03% stake in Careem, the super app owned by Uber’s Middle East unit, for $400M; Uber will own Careem’s ride-hailing business  —  Emirates Telecommunications Group will buy a $400 million stake in the super app developed by Uber Technologies Inc.’s Middle Eastern subsidiary …

A technique to 3D print conductive circuits directly into living organisms could one day be used in humans

Scientists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.

Unleash your inner diva as you grab the mic on your favorite songs.

If you must have a giant computer screen, you could do worse than this one.

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: In a reversal, Twitter lets users like and retweet Substack links, but searches including “Substack” still return results for just “newsletter” instead  —  In a reversal of a limitation the platform put in place earlier in the week, Twitter is once again allowing users to interact with Substack links freely.

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms  —  Big companies are hiring an ever-larger proportion of America’s inventors, who are less productive once they join

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: ~270 US Apple Stores held staff meetings on unionization risks in the past two weeks, using a unionized store in Towson, Maryland as a cautionary tale  —  Apple is continuing its push to keep retail stores from unionizing.  Also: A deep look inside efforts to diversify the company’s product …

A device made of cylinders tethered to the ocean floor could lessen the ferocity of waves, preventing them from eroding the shore

After rising from the dead, the theater subscription service is back with a convoluted new business model. Here’s how it works and how to sign up.

Nathan Lambert / Democratizing Automation: An ML scientist writes about the extreme strain of working in an AI industry collectively shaken up by ChatGPT, as he oscillates between motivation and burnout  —  Fear, FOMO, and the scientific exodus driven by ChatGPT  —  Every single person I know working in AI these days …

Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: How the gambling industry has kept up with decades of computer-assisted tech developed to beat roulette, like wearable devices, timers, and predictive software  —  One spring evening, two men and a woman walked into the Ritz Club casino, an upmarket establishment in London’s West End.

Aric Toler / bellingcat: The leaked Pentagon Ukraine documents seem to have first appeared on Discord, followed by 4chan, before appearing on Telegram, Twitter, and major media outlets  —  In recent days, the US Justice Department and Pentagon have begun investigating an apparent online leak of sensitive documents, including some that were marked “Top Secret”.

We’ve tested dozens of ways to watch stuff on 4K or HD TVs. These are our favorites.

Plus: 119 arrested during a sting on the Genesis dark-web market, the IRS aims to buy an online mass surveillance tool, and more.

Plus: Kobo’s new E Ink tablet is made for doodling, Google moves podcasts into YouTube Music, and Peloton connects to Android watches.

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: An interview with Victor Wong, Google’s senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple’s ATT, and more  —  To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.”  Here’s an exclusive peek into how it will work.

Reuters: Baidu sues “relevant” app developers and Apple over fake apps for its Ernie bot on the App Store; Ernie, launched in March 2023, doesn’t have an official app  —  Chinese search giant touts product as answer to U.S.-developed ChatGPT chatbot  —  Baidu lodged lawsuits …

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”  —  Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR’s account this week …

In California, the bodies of four furry swimmers tested positive for a strain of toxoplasmosis first seen in mountain lions.

The story behind the fight over this game’s rights is as complex as the game itself.

Easter weekend brings discounts on some of our favorite Amazon devices, plus Google Pixel phones.

Joel Khalili / Wired: A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates  —  US agencies are sparring over who gets to oversee the crypto industry, and companies are stuck in the middle.

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Experts say when ChatGPT confabulates, it is reaching for information that is absent from its training data and filling in blanks with plausible-sounding words  —  A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots.  —  Over the past few months …

Financial Times: Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics into Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export controls  —  Company registered to terraced house in London sent goods including semiconductors, according to customs data

Luscafilm has announced three new Star Wars movies. There’s a crucial title missing.

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources: Meta is giving some VR developers compensation packages of $600K to $1M, significantly more than most gaming companies, despite a push to rein in costs  —  Programmers’ high pay is just a sliver of the company’s multibillion-dollar metaverse investment

The Hindu: Twitter seemingly removed a journalist’s tweet about India’s Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand”  —  The move is an apparent first, as Twitter generally takes down posts in response to government demands only in the country whose government demanded censorship

Matt Taibbi / Racket News: Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes  —  On staying at Substack, and leaving Twitter, I guess  —  Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.

Weird hands have become a well-known way to identify an image generated by artificial intelligence, but that could be set to change

Nelson Yuan-sheng Kiang, an internationally recognized scientist known for his influential research into speech and hearing, as well as his dedication to enhancing academic exchange between Chinese and American scientists, died March 19 at his home in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. He was 93. Kiang was a principal research scientist in the Research […]

Sometime in 2019, MIT PhD student Ajay Brahmakshatriya formulated a simple, though still quite challenging, goal. He wanted to make it possible for people who had expertise in a particular domain — such as climate modeling, bioinformatics, or architecture — to write their own programming languages, so-called domain-specific languages (or DSLs), even if they had […]

In the coming decades, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind will increasingly dominate the conventional power grid. Because those sources only generate electricity when it’s sunny or windy, ensuring a reliable grid — one that can deliver power 24/7 — requires some means of storing electricity when supplies are abundant and delivering it […]

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Three ways to disrupt this insidious, global bias.

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Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.

Scientists are hesitant to blame climate change, but varying weather conditions are causing new and troubling tornado patterns.

Elon Musk’s highly publicized decision distracts from his recent move to reduce transparency on the platform.

CoinDesk: The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”  —  The department’s first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Colorado-based True Anomaly, which develops software and “autonomous orbital pursuit vehicles” to collect space data, raised $30M including a $17M Series A  —  As tensions between the United States and China continue to escalate, a new startup has emerged from stealth …

Tim Keary / VentureBeat: Bitdefender survey of 400+ IT/security professionals: 42% were told to cover up data breaches that should have been reported, 29.9% admit covering up breaches  —  In a world where cybercrime is becoming more difficult to prevent, many security leaders are putting pressure on IT professionals to bury the truth.

In Greg Fournier’s line of work — studying living systems that developed billions of years ago — outstanding questions far outnumber established answers. “Often, we have very little information to go on. We can suggest how each piece of evidence we have may be more consistent with different scenarios,” says Fournier, an associate professor of […]