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The tech giant is helping researchers and clinicians decipher vast amounts of data generated by people with persistent symptoms.

Sam Kim / Bloomberg: SEMI report: Japan is expected to spend $7B on chipmaking equipment in 2024, up 82% on 2023, the largest in the world; China’s spending is forecast to rise 2%  —  Japan is poised to sharply raise its chip-gear spending in an attempt to boost its position in the global semiconductor market […]

Tom Bristow / Politico: The UK ICO fines TikTok £12.7M for failing to protect kids’ data, saying the app “should have done better”, down from a £27M fine proposed in September 2022  —  The ICO estimates that 1.4 million children in the UK were on TikTok in 2020.

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple reports an issue with its Weather app on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS, ongoing for over five hours; some users have had issues for over a week  —  Apple is currently experiencing issues with its weather data provider, leaving many users unable to see live weather information and forecasts for […]

When the historic cities of Europe were built hundreds of years ago, there were open green spaces all around them. But today’s city centers can be a 30-minute drive or more to the vast open greenery that earlier Europeans took for granted. That’s what the startup Roofscapes is trying to change. The company, founded by […]

Yes, it has looks only a mother could love—but shut your eyes and wait till you hear how mind-blowingly good this new speaker is.

North Korean hackers appear to have used the corrupted VoIP software to go after just a handful of crypto firms with “surgical precision.”

Here’s a guide to all the models—plus case recommendations and hidden software tricks to try.

Meir Orbach / CTech: Cybersecurity company Cybereason has raised $100M led by SoftBank and says Eric Gan, EVP of SoftBank, will be its new CEO, replacing co-founder Lior Div  —  The new investment will make the Japanese conglomerate Cybereason’s leading shareholder  —  SoftBank is investing another $100 million in Cybereason.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Quantexa, which uses AI to help businesses prevent online fraud and manage customer data, raised a $129M Series E led by GIC at a $1.8B valuation  —  Financial fraud and other online crime continue to present major threats to businesses, and they remain a key focus for regulators requiring …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple to eliminate a small number of its corporate retail staff, marking its first known cuts since embarking on a belt-tightening effort last year  —  Apple Inc. is eliminating a small number of roles within its corporate retail teams, according to people with knowledge of the matter …

Popular plagiarism detection software used by many schools and universities worldwide is set to get an AI-detecting component in the wake of the release of ChatGPT

With Russia’s invasion ongoing, Ukraine is looking for ways that artificial intelligence can help treat the wounded

Each year, MIT’s School of Engineering gives the Junior Bose Award to a junior faculty member who has made outstanding contributions as an educator. The award is given to a member of faculty who is up for promotion from assistant professor to associate professor without tenure. The 2023 Junior Bose Award has been given to […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT has announced that the investigative series “Big Poultry,” published by The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News & Observer, has been chosen as the 2023 winner of the Victor K. McElheny Award for local and regional journalism. This series of articles uncovered the wide-ranging, unregulated impact of the […]

It offers new opportunities for interactivity, personalization, and adventure.

E-liability accounting has helped a Singapore-based tire manufacturer and a German cement producer reduce their emissions.

The new season of Coaching Real Leaders dives deep into leadership challenges around leading through layoffs, accomplishing your goals, and more.

Researchers say viruses can kill antibiotic-resistant microbes and help treat infections. Regulators have to figure out how to get them on the market.

An agency database WIRED obtained reveals widespread use of so-called 1509 summonses that experts say raises the specter of potential abuse.

As more characters enter the public domain, it’s important that creators use them. Next up: Mickey Mouse.

Dan Seifert / The Verge: Unlike most boring modern laptops, Framework’s repairable, sustainable, and upgradeable models are exciting, harking back to the early 2000s era of computing  —  It’s not often that I get too excited about new laptops these days.  Modern laptops are extremely capable devices, with few glaring flaws.

Yana Gaur / Reuters: Western Digital discloses a network security incident, taking some systems offline, and says the hacker obtained internal data but the scope is so far unknown  —  Data storage devices maker Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) on Monday said it is looking into a network security incident …

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Research: Israeli tech startups raised $1.7B in Q1 2023, the lowest since 2018, weighed down by a global slowdown and protests over a proposed judicial overhaul  —  Investment in Israeli tech companies has dropped to the lowest quarterly rate in nearly five years, a result of the global downturn …

Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately identify an object after grasping it just one time. Many robotic hands pack all their powerful sensors into the fingertips, so an object must be in full contact with those fingertips to be identified, which can […]

If you’ve ever played soccer with a robot, it’s a familiar feeling. Sun glistens down on your face as the smell of grass permeates the air. You look around. A four-legged robot is hustling toward you, dribbling with determination.  While the bot doesn’t display a Lionel Messi-like level of ability, it’s an impressive in-the-wild dribbling […]

Whether you want to sleep through the party or rock out (safely) to your favorite band, these will help block out the noise.

We tested the latest and greatest gaming notebooks to sort the god rolls from the vendor fodder.

New York Times: Sources: in November 2021, five days after Biden put NSO on a Commerce Dept. blacklist, a shell company acting as a front for the US gov’t licensed NSO software  —  The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times’ main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet’s decision not to pay for Blue  —  The Times and other news organizations say they won’t pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.

Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: In a now deleted tweet, Elon Musk said verified accounts would get a “few weeks grace” but would lose their badges if “they tell they won’t pay now”  —  – The first day of Twitter’s previously announced axing of “legacy” verified checks nearly passed without incident.

In three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But in higher dimensions, an infinite number of configurations are possible.

This expandable, modular power station can help you go off-grid and stay powered up during outages.

Playing video games to deal with reality is nothing new, but this game about being an intern in Silicon Valley is perfect if you just need a laugh.

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How researchers, including at Meta’s AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition  —  Thought is ever-changing electrical patterns unconnected to individual neurons.  Meta is working on a system to read your mind.

Our favorite zero-drop, minimalist footwear will let you feel the ground beneath your feet.

Plus: A major new supply chain attack, Biden’s spyware executive order, and a hacking campaign against Exxon’s critics.

Plus: The library ebook app OverDrive is shutting down, Fitbit loses some social features, and we take a stroll on Amazon Sidewalk.

Brianna Wessling / The Robot Report: Ocado wins AutoStore’s lawsuit after the UK High Court invalidated two of AutoStore’s warehouse automation patents for being publicly disclosed before filing  —  Yesterday, the UK High Court ruled that AutoStore’s patents, which have been the subject of a patent infringement case against Ocado …

New York Times: An investigation details how a Georgia man was wrongfully arrested based on a bad facial recognition match and other tech meant to make policing more effective  —  Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail …

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Lyft co-founders’ departures followed months of staff worries as the company’s market cap fell 85% to under $3.5B in two years, while Uber fared better  —  New CEO says he aims to boost employee morale and overhaul customer and driver experience  —  Tech Live: Lyft Co-Founder on Stock-Price Tumble, Autonomous Cars

In this nascent stage, there are opportunities for virtual worlds to avoid the mistakes of the past.

Here’s what Google has planned for the next version of its mobile operating system.

Step into spring with these discounted outdoorsy gadgets.

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Binance plans to keep the $985M+ BUSD it moved from its industry recovery fund, launched in November 2022 amid FTX’s collapse, in its corporate wallets  —  Founder and CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as “CZ”  —  In the wake of FTX’s collapse in November, the newly crowned kingpin of […]

Chloe Xiang / VICE: A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after using an AI chatbot, which presented itself as an emotional being, for six weeks on an app called Chai  —  The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models.  —  Chloe Xiang

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Filing: the US government sold ~$216M of seized Silk Road BTC in March, part of the 50K BTC stolen by James Zhong, and plans to sell 41,490 BTC in four tranches  —  The government will sell the remaining 41,490 BTC in four tranches this year.  —  The U.S. government sold 9,861.17 […]

From Cargo to Okja, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and some other celebrities with millions of followers say they won’t pay for Twitter Blue  —  April 1 is the dumbest day on the internet, and this year, it’s not just because brands will try to prank you by selling “hot iced coffee.”

Paul Sandle / Reuters: UK’s CMA drops a probe into Apple’s dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming after Apple successfully argued the CMA waited too long to launch the probe  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) won its appeal against the decision by Britain’s antitrust regulator to launch an investigation into its mobile browser …