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Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global  —  The American cryptocurrency exchange said it was not “economically viable” to continue doing business in the United States.

Simple calculations, such as factoring low numbers, can be made by mixing together differently shaped strands of DNA

An explosive filled with gaps can only detonate after a liquid is poured into it, which could make it unusually safe for transportation and storage

To secure a more sustainable and resilient future, we must take a careful look at the life cycle impacts of humanity’s most-produced building material: concrete. Carbon uptake, the process by which cement-based products sequester carbon dioxide, is key to this understanding. Hessam AzariJafari, the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub’s deputy director, is deeply invested in the […]

With the release of platforms like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, diffusion generative models have achieved mainstream popularity, owing to their ability to generate a series of absurd, breathtaking, and often meme-worthy images from text prompts like “teddy bears working on new AI research on the moon in the 1980s.” But a team of researchers at […]

Biologics, a class of therapeutics derived from living organisms, offer enormous advantages to patients battling challenging diseases and disorders. Treatments based on biologics can boost the immune system to stem attacks from infections or target specific pathways to block the formation of tumors. “These drugs, which have been around for just the last 20 years, […]

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To determine where to invest resources, CX leaders should look at patterns of experience over time.

Sometimes when you win, you also lose.

The Apple TV+ movie is sleek but simplistic at times.

Nix’s wearable sensor promises to give cyclists and runners real-time hydration advice by analyzing their fluid loss while they work out.

It’s all the chaos and delight of playing a campaign with your friends, but onscreen.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba’s strategy and engineered the split from overseas by telling executives it would make the company nimble  —  Globe-trotting billionaire, in calls to executives, used his influence to push company’s plans to split into six groups

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei reports 2022 revenue up 0.9% YoY to ~$93.4B and net profit down 69% YoY to ~$5.18B, its biggest drop since 2011, amid pandemic controls and US sanctions  —  – Huawei reported net profit for 2022 totaled 35.6 billion yuan ($5.18 billion), a 69% year-on-year decline.

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: Italy’s privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”  —  The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.

The New York start-up Amogy has already created an ammonia-powered drone, tractor and semi-truck. Now, it’s turning its attention to ships

When Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, Milain Fayulu SM ’22 was filled with pride in his home country. He eagerly set an alarm from Miami to wake up in the early hours and watch Mukwege’s speech in Norway. In the speech, Mukwege discussed his experience caring […]

A Manhattan grand jury has issued the first-ever indictment of a former US president. Buckle up for whatever happens next.

Pixel smartphones, PlayStation titles, and even Apple’s spendy AirPods Max are all on sale right now.

From Goodfellas to The Banshees of Inisherin, here are our favorite movies on the streaming service.

Bloomberg: South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country’s semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities  —  South Korea’s parliament easily approved a bill Thursday to boost the country’s powerhouse semiconductor industry by giving firms tax breaks to spur investments.

Manya Saini / Reuters: Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers  —  Block Inc (SQ.N) said on Thursday 44 million of its more 51 million monthly active customers on Cash App were verified through its […]

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found that the flaw could have let anyone alter Bing search results and access users’ Office 365 data  —  A dangerous vulnerability was detected in Microsoft’s Bing search engine earlier this year that allowed users to alter search results …

The ease with which artificial intelligence can generate and paraphrase language means that detectors to spot AI content will only be as accurate as flipping a coin

Routine tasks that require working memory, like baking, involve remembering both some general rules (e.g., read the oven temperature and time from the recipe and then set them on the oven) and some specific content for each instance (e.g., 350 degrees for 45 minutes for a loaf of rye, but 325 degrees for eight minutes […]

Neural networks, a type of machine-learning model, are being used to help humans complete a wide variety of tasks, from predicting if someone’s credit score is high enough to qualify for a loan to diagnosing whether a patient has a certain disease. But researchers still have only a limited understanding of how these models work. […]

Engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have designed a new type of nanoparticle that can be administered to the lungs, where it can deliver messenger RNA encoding useful proteins. With further development, these particles could offer an inhalable treatment for cystic fibrosis and other diseases of the lung, the researchers say. […]

Looking at which brands you share followers with can surface surprising opportunities.

Companies should start looking now for creative ways to tap the power of human-machine collaboration.

It’s time for companies to reevaluate growth investments, focus on productivity, and manage dynamically.

Startups are buying properties and wooing first-time real estate investors to buy shares. The model could have real repercussions for renters.

This week, we trace how Amazon was able to build a massive public wireless network, and how it will change the future of connected devices.

Grail’s Galleri aims to screen for many more types of tumor than was previously possible. Large-scale clinical trials are underway.

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Kuo: Apple’s mixed reality headset may not appear at WWDC as mass production is pushed back to Q3, amid doubts about the device creating an “iPhone moment”  —  Mass production of Apple’s mixed-reality headset has again been pushed back and the device may not appear …

Livemint: Report: PhonePe, one of India’s largest fintech services, has called off plans to acquire BNPL service ZestMoney for $200M to $300M, over due diligence concerns  —  PhonePe, one of India’s largest fintech platforms, has put on hold its plans to acquire Bengaluru-based BNPL (buy now pay later) platform ZestMoney.

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Report: Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin quit to join OpenAI in January after complaining that Bard was being trained with ChatGPT data; Google denies the charge  —  Google’s Bard hasn’t exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested …

OpenAI’s ChatGPT labelled text samples used in AI training with more accuracy than people did. The approach could automate some of the human labour involved in AI development

MIT undergraduates are learning about nanoscale science and engineering from individual atoms up to full-scale functional systems, and they’re doing it hands-on at MIT.nano. In class 6.2540 (Nanotechnology: From Atoms to Systems) students spend over nine weeks inside MIT.nano’s labs, learning basic skills that allow them to apply their knowledge of the nanoscale to design […]

Authorities ordered Twitter accounts blocked and the internet shut down as they hunt for Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh Sandhu.

The Bear and Great Expectations are just two of the shows you won’t want to miss on this streaming service.

Colored lab-grown diamonds, 3D printing, and more titanium that you can shake a stick at mark the wild releases from Watches & Wonders 2023.

Jon Victor / The Information: Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4, after Bard’s stumble  —  OpenAI’s success in overtaking Google with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has achieved what seemed impossible in the past …

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded  —  Disney and Microsoft both closed projects tied to the digital realm this month  —  Watch: What’s the Future of […]

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran  —  Google is launching a new ad transparency center that will let users search for verified advertisers and their campaigns across …

A hydrogel battery that can perform well at below-freezing temperatures and survive all sorts of damage could keep phones working even when conditions get tough

The School of Engineering is welcoming 11 new members of its faculty across six of its academic departments and institutes. This new cohort of faculty members, who have either recently started their roles at MIT or will start their new roles within the next year, conduct research across a diverse range of disciplines. Their areas […]

Recently, a cohort of 36 students from MIT and universities across Hong Kong came together for the MIT Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator (MEMSI), an intense two-week startup boot camp hosted at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node. “We’re very excited to be in Hong Kong,” said Professor Charles Sodini, LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering […]

Researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have harnessed a natural bacterial system to develop a new protein delivery approach that works in human cells and animals. The technology, described today in Nature, can be programmed to deliver a variety of proteins, including ones […]

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