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The luxury phone maker refuses to die. We tested its new Metavertu handset and were led down a rabbit hole of legal disputes and security concerns.

Thrifty buying isn’t just for low-cost bargains; you can also find smart picks for just a little more. Here are WIRED’s top sub-$200 picks.

The weather will start to warm up soon, and retailers are continuing their annual winter clearance events ahead of spring.

Politico: Crypto analytics firm Inca Digital: Huobi and KuCoin still allow traders to transact with debit cards issued by sanctioned Russian banks on their P2P platforms  —  Two of the world’s largest crypto exchanges failed to take steps to prevent sanctioned Russian banks from using their platforms …

Kif Leswing / CNBC: A look at the Nvidia A100, a ~$10K GPU that has become a critical tool for generative AI; Nvidia has an estimated 95% market share of machine learning GPUs  —  – Companies like Microsoft and Google are fighting to integrate cutting-edge AI into their search engines, as billion-dollar competitors …

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: A major outage has taken down Dish Network’s websites, apps, and customer support systems; remote employees have been cut off from accessing their work systems  —  Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that’s taken down the company’s main websites, apps …

The movie seems destined for internet infamy but doesn’t live up to the promise of its viral trailer.

From Call Me Chihiro to Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

From Physical: 100 to Wednesday, these are our picks for the best streaming titles to binge this week.

Jon Rice / Blockworks: Jump Crypto recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit after Oasis upgraded a DeFi contract following a UK high court order  —  The Chicago trading firm appears to have recovered the 120,000 ether stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit … UPCOMING EVENT

Derek Willis / ProPublica: Politwoops, a ProPublica project that tracked and archived politicians’ deleted tweets since 2012, is shutting down as the required Twitter tools no longer work  —  Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all.

Sam Altman / OpenAI: OpenAI details its preparations for “if AGI is successfully created”, including being cautious with its models and operating as if the risks are existential  —  Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.

A digital perspective tweak improves how people judge distance in images and doing this in video games and CGI movies could make them feel more immersive

The MIT School of Science has announced seven postdocs and research scientists as recipients of the 2023 Infinite Expansion Award. Nominated by their peers and mentors, the awardees are recognized not only for their exceptional science, but for mentoring and advising junior colleagues, supporting educational programs, working with the MIT Postdoctoral Association, or contributing some […]

It Must Be Now! is an initiative created in response to the racial reckoning of 2020. Multiple events for the MIT community were held throughout 2021 and 2022, leading to an historic multidisciplinary concert in Kresge Auditorium in May 2022, featuring new works by composers Terri Lyne Carrington, Braxton Cook, and Sean Jones, whose creations […]

Four ways to encourage patients to shop for the best prices on procedures and increase competition.

A study of a landmark case against Microsoft found it didn’t necessarily lead to more competition or innovation.

Ten executives describe how they managed their teams — and themselves — in the first year after Russia’s invasion.

The Supreme Court should continue to safeguard online speech—in the Section 230 case and beyond.

The online retailer sells products meant for human consumption that contain donkey meat. A new lawsuit claims that’s illegal in California.

Drones that can find their own targets already exist, making machine-versus-machine conflict just a software update away.

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Kuo: Apple plans a cheaper second-gen AR/MR headset with two high-end and low-end models, built by Luxcaseict and Foxconn, respectively, likely coming in 2025  —  Apple’s cheaper second-generation AR/VR headset will come in two high-end and low-end models, according to Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: Experts say combining deepfake audio and video, virtual avatars, and large language models like GPT could turbocharge the work of scammers and propagandists  —  Dozens of startups are using generative AI to make shiny happy virtual people for fun and profit.  Chatbots add a complicated new dimension.

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: London-based Metomic, which uses AI to detect data leaks in SaaS apps like Slack and Jira, raised a $20M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners  —  As more companies shift to work-from-home or hybrid environments, it becomes increasingly important to make sure that employees …

A small patch worn on the throat can pick up even silently mouthed speech and broadcast it, which could help some people who are unable to speak

As a first-year U.S. Air Force cadet in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), Jupneet Singh never imagined she would rise to the rank of wing commander by the end of her MIT career. She approached her first year as a trial period without many expectations, but the close-knit community and inspiring leadership compelled her […]

Here’s our definitive ranking of all 31 films (and counting) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Mozilla researchers found that apps often provide inaccurate data use disclosures, giving people “a false sense of security.”

A new State Department proposal asks other nations to agree to limits on the power of military AI.

Joseph Cox / VICE: A reporter says he used an AI-generated replica of a voice to get past the voice verification system of UK’s Lloyds bank and accessed an account’s information  —  Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account.  I proved it’s possible to […]

Bloomberg: Source: the DOJ is preparing to file an antitrust suit to block Adobe’s Figma acquisition as soon as next month; Adobe says it expects to close the deal in 2023  —  The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Adobe Inc.’s $20 billion acquisition of startup Figma Inc., people familiar with […]

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Block reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $4.65B, vs. $4.61B est., Square gross profit up 22% YoY to $801M, and Cash App gross profit up 64% YoY to $848M  —  – Block stock rose slightly in extended trading after the payments company reported fourth-quarter revenue and gross profit that beat […]

Freight trains as long as 8 kilometres transport goods in the US, but in light of recent derailments, some are asking if current safety guidelines are up to scratch

Researchers injected a leech with gel that transforms into a soft electrode, letting them control its muscle contractions – this gel could eventually be used in the brain to treat neurological conditions without surgery

The derailment of a freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, involved an overheated wheel bearing, say US government investigators

Over the course of her career, the composer Elena Ruehr has found inspiration in very different writers and very different worlds. She has, for example, set poems by Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes to music. Her latest project, “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage,” recently premiered at MIT and marks another stylistic turn. And […]

Climate policies are typically designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that result from human activities and drive climate change. The largest source of these emissions is the combustion of fossil fuels, which increases atmospheric concentrations of ozone, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and other air pollutants that pose public health risks. While climate policies may result […]

The MIT math dynasty continues to break records for its performance in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. For the third year in a row, MIT students corralled all five of the top Putnam Fellow spots, and for the fourth time in as many years, won the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize for the top-scoring […]

Too often, managers see coaching as a one-on-one practice.

When your technologies work well together, your people can, too.

There are major practical, technical, and legal challenges to overcome before tools like ChatGPT reach the scale, robustness, and reliability of Google.

Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled.

Russian-backed groups are using political ads to subvert the democratic process in Moldova.

Whether you’re looking for new tech to get through long cool nights, or planning a spring camping trip, there are plenty of discounts that can help.

Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: Tel Aviv-based chip startup Chain Reaction, which plans to begin mass producing its blockchain chip Electrum, raised $70M led by Morgan Creek Digital  —  Tel Aviv-based blockchain chip startup Chain Reaction on Thursday said it raised $70 million which will be used to expand its engineering team …

Steve Dent / Engadget: Samsung announces a standardized 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) modem that will enable two-way communication between smartphones and satellites  —  There was speculation that Samsung could use smartphone-to-satellite technology in its Galaxy S23 much like Apple has for the iPhone 14, but that didn’t happen in the end.

Jon Haidt / After Babel: An analysis of 100+ studies finds that social media is a major cause of mental illness in teen girls, not just a tiny correlate, especially after 2012  —  Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational  —  A big story last week was the partial release …

The US Air Force has completed a project to develop face recognition software for autonomous drones, sparking concerns that individuals could be targeted and killed

Law-makers must act like speculative fiction authors and try to foresee how technology will change our world, says writer Ray Nayler

The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables.