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It can be hard to let go, but being more inclusive will lead you to better decisions.

In an effort to keep listeners’ attention, teams behind “My Favorite Murder” and other shows are creating IRL happenings for fans—and they dig it.

The sun’s back from its long vacation. What better time to invest in a little self-care?

WeChat has 19 million users in the US and is a lifeline for people across the Chinese diaspora.

Chavi Mehta / Reuters: Accenture plans to lay off 19,000 employees, or 2.5% of its workforce, and lowers its annual forecasts, as the global economic slowdown weighs on IT services  —  Accenture Plc said on Thursday it would cut about 19,000 jobs and lowered its annual revenue and profit projections …

Kate Park / TechCrunch: South Korea-based luxury goods resale platform Kream raised a ~$168M Series C led by Altos Ventures at a ~$742M valuation, up from ~$306M in October 2021  —  The startup funding environment is more challenging right now, but some companies and industries still draw investors’ attention and money.

Giles Turner / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple considers bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English soccer games, including showing Premier League games in the UK, following Amazon  —  Apple Inc. is considering bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English football games, according to people familiar …

They come by foot and by boat. Desperate, many bring nothing more than the clothes on their backs. They seek asylum and hope. Since 2015, more than a million refugees have flooded into Greece. Syrians, Afghanis, Iraqis, and Kurds, they’ve been uprooted from their home countries by violence and oppression. Political gridlock traps them in […]

Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed.

Save on Google Pixel and Samsung smartphones or camera bags and video games.

Vibrant sound and longer battery life make the Ear (2) buds a better buy. But there are caveats.

CNBC: Coinbase says it received an SEC notice warning the company of potential US securities law violations and recommending that the SEC take an enforcement action  —  – The SEC issued crypto exchange Coinbase a Wells notice, warning the exchange that it identified potential violations of U.S. securities law.

Washington Post: Poll of 1,027 US adults: 41% support a TikTok ban, 25% oppose it, and 71% are concerned that ByteDance is based in China; 17% of US daily users support a ban  —  As D.C. pushes for action against TikTok, a Washington Post poll finds more support than oppose banning the app

CNBC: The US SEC charges Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, Akon, and other celebrities for promoting crypto tokens TRX and BTT without disclosing that they were compensated  —  – The SEC unveiled charges against diplomat Justin Sun for fraud and securities violations, while also charging celebrity backers including Jake Paul and Lindsay Lohan.

Haruko Wainwright, the Norman C. Rasmussen Career Development Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) and assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at MIT, grew up in rural Japan, where many nuclear facilities are located. She remembers worrying about the facilities as a child. Wainwright was only 6 at the time of the Chernobyl […]

Average crop yields in Africa are consistently far below those expected, and one significant reason is the prevalence of counterfeit seeds whose germination rates are far lower than those of the genuine ones. The World Bank estimates that as much as half of all seeds sold in some African countries are fake, which could help […]

The potential benefits are clear — but to realize them, service robots must be designed and implemented the right way.

A study of 80,000 employees found that remote employees were 32% more likely than their in-office peers to feel anxious in the wake of news about layoffs.

Assuming that someone from a marginalized group has thicker skin is inherently insensitive and othering.

Meet the creators working to make sure that everyone can see themselves in the pages of their favorite stories.

Slack puts a paywall in front of features that Discord offers for free. Here’s how to make the leap—and keep your archive, too.

An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at Balaji Srinivasan’s proposed $1M bitcoin bet, predicting one BTC will be worth $1M+ in 90 days, which makes little sense besides attracting attention  —  Credit Suisse  —  It is sometimes useful to think that the shareholders of a bank are not its owners; they are just renting it […]

Virginia Heffernan / Wired: Inside TSMC’s facilities in Taiwan, where Fab 18 makes a quintillion transistors for Apple every six months, and an interview with Chairman Mark Liu  —  As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.

New York Times: The US will find banning TikTok difficult due to its massive userbase, political ramifications, possible alienation of young voters, legal challenges, and more  —  The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company’s chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.

QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2023, the organization announced today. The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; […]

Robert “Bob” Metcalfe ’68, an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) research affiliate and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, has been awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for his invention of Ethernet. Often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize […]

It’s no secret that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has some incredible capabilities — for instance, the chatbot can write poetry that resembles Shakespearean sonnets or debug code for a computer program. These abilities are made possible by the massive machine-learning model that ChatGPT is built upon. Researchers have found that when these types of models become large […]

Doctored images of the former US president went viral on Twitter. These are the telltale signs that they aren’t what they seem.

Search giant Baidu’s Ernie Bot met online jeers and also faces the challenge of operating on a firewalled internet ruled by government censorship.

This SUV gets a winning design, advanced autonomous drive features, and a spaceship-level dash. So it’s a real shame it’s not coming to the US.

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Data leak site BreachForums says it plans to shut down following the arrest of alleged operator “Pompompurin” due to fear law enforcement has backdoor access  —  In an abrupt about-face, the new administrator of popular cybercriminal platform BreachForums said they plan to shut …

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: GP Bullhound: European tech startups raised €30.5B in debt in 2022, up from €15.9B in 2021, as the global tech slump made raising new equity more difficult  —  European technology startups nearly doubled the amount of debt they took on last year, exposing them to the turmoil …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram is testing ads in search results, with plans for a global rollout in the coming months, and launches Reminder Ads, for opt-in reminders about events  —  Meta is introducing two new tools on Instagram designed to open up additional avenues for advertising as the company grapples with weak advertising demand.

Google is now providing limited public access to its Bard AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Here’s what we know so far about what it can do and how to access it

A cake has been 3D printed using seven simple ingredients blended into pastes. The result was a layered flavour that “hits you in different waves”

Three MIT-led teams are among 16 nationwide to receive funding awards to address sustainable materials for global challenges through the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program. Launched in 2019, the program targets solutions to especially compelling societal or scientific challenges at an accelerated pace, by incorporating a multidisciplinary research approach. “Solutions for today’s national-scale societal […]

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger gave an optimistic account of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing on Friday, telling an MIT audience that the ongoing expansion of his firm’s production capacity would bolster the company over the long term while giving the U.S. more economic and industrial security. “Everything digital runs on semiconductors,” Gelsinger said. “There is no digital […]

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Three ways federal, state, and local governments can improve the accessibility and reach of their services.

A conversation with Duke Law’s Nita Farahany about the last frontier of privacy.

These stylish shades let you listen to music and come with a variety of lenses. But you better open up your wallet (and have a small head).

The hard electrodes inserted into the brain to treat Parkinson’s and paralysis damage the organ’s soft tissue. A new invention could change that.

Wyze makes affordable security cameras and video doorbells. Right now they’re even cheaper.

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A year after its Staten Island win, the Amazon Labor Union has endured setbacks and conflicts, including between president Chris Smalls and longtime organizers  —  Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal conflict.

James Vincent / The Verge: TikTok refreshes its Community Guidelines, expanding a section to cover “synthetic and manipulated media”, or deepfakes, as pressure from the US increases  —  As the prospect of a US TikTok ban continues to grow, the video app has refreshed its content moderation policies.

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple lobbied for changes to India’s labor law in the Tamil Nadu state, where Foxconn has its largest iPhone plant, to help expand local production  —  Apple Inc. is seeking changes in India’s labor laws as part of its effort to expand local production, and regional governments …

In the United States, an estimated 15 million tons of textiles end up in landfills or are burned every year. This waste, amounting to 85 percent of the textiles produced in a year, is a growing environmental problem. In 2022, Massachusetts became the first state to enact a law banning the disposal of textiles in […]

Lawmakers call for an investigation into the SVB collapse, fearing hostile foreign governments will use social media to manipulate markets.

The streaming giant gave an update on upcoming releases and why it’s (ahem) playing the long game.