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TV brands are taking prices down a notch ahead of Black Friday for some of the best deals of the year.

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A Michigan man, a member of an online terrorist network called 764, is sentenced to 30 years in prison for preying on kids in Discord servers and chat rooms  —  A Michigan man who ran chat rooms and Discord servers targeting children playing online games and coercing them into self-harm […]

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Google rolls out its Gemini-powered Vids app that lets users create video presentations using a prompt, with full access for Workspace users until at least 2026  —  Google is generally rolling out its Gemini AI-powered Vids app that lets you create video presentations using a prompt.

Liz Young / Wall Street Journal: Amazon is testing grocery formats that pull together fulfillment networks for Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh stores into a common delivery platform  —  The e-commerce giant is testing store formats that more seamlessly align online fulfillment and in-person shopping

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a possible shortcut for training robots faster and more accurately

Gene Keselman wears a lot of hats. He is a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the executive director of Mission Innovation Experimental (MIx), and managing director of MIT’s venture studio, Proto Ventures. Colonel in the Air Force Reserves at the Pentagon, board director, and startup leader are only a few of the […]

As a major contributor to global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the transportation sector has immense potential to advance decarbonization. However, a zero-emissions global supply chain requires re-imagining reliance on a heavy-duty trucking industry that emits 810,000 tons of CO2, or 6 percent of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, and consumes 29 billion gallons of diesel […]

A step-by-step guide to help you craft a winning answer.

It can reduce burnout, improve your academic performance, and help you find your purpose. Here’s how to make it happen.

A series of studies found that virtual meetings offer workers valuable glimpses into each other’s nonwork lives — which boost feelings of trust and authenticity.

The way airlines refund or compensate you for flight delays and cancellations has changed. So have policies on misplaced luggage and fees for in-flight Wi-Fi that doesn’t work.

Why wait? Our favorite tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, and other outdoor gear are on sale now.

The SpaceX rocket will launch during the late afternoon so its descent into the Indian Ocean is visible.

Mark Hachman / PCWorld: Mercury Research: AMD’s desktop CPU market share, in units, grew from 19.1% in Q3 2023 to 28.7% in Q3 2024 and from 19.5% to 22.3% for mobile in the same period  —  AMD’s desktop CPU market share jumped nearly 10 percent in the last year, an analyst reported Thursday, on the […]

Bloomberg: Sony reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$19.45B, operating profit up 73% YoY to ~$2.96B vs. ~$2.18B est., and PS5 sales of 3.8M units, down from 4.9M a year ago  —  – Chinese hit ‘Wukong’ helped game sales on aging PlayStation 5  — Image sensor business was hurt by demand lull in North […]

Reuters: Sources: Trump’s transition team is considering Dan Gallagher, an ex-SEC commissioner and Robinhood’s current legal chief, as SEC chair replacing Gary Gensler  —  Trump transition team officials are considering retail brokerage Robinhood’s top lawyer, as well as bank regulators and corporate attorneys …

At the heart of the energy transition is a metal transition. Wind farms, solar panels, and electric cars require many times more copper, zinc, and nickel than their gas-powered alternatives. They also require more exotic metals with unique properties, known as rare earth elements, which are essential for the magnets that go into things like […]

For graduate students Kelsey Pittman and Jacqueline Orr, service in the U.S. military led to their interest in engineering, and to the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). Pittman’s first exposure to the military and engineering took place during her undergraduate years at the United States Military Academy West Point.  “I remember back […]

Through his wealth and cultural influence, Elon Musk undoubtedly strengthened the Trump campaign. WIRED unpacks whether it really was his efforts that sealed the deal for the president-elect.

We sent photographer Jamie Lee Taete on a road trip through Maricopa County, Arizona, during the US election.

“I am electric. I feel vindicated,” said one January 6 rioter from jail.

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US judge dismisses a copyright lawsuit by Raw Story and AlterNet against OpenAI over AI training, saying they couldn’t show enough harm to support the lawsuit  —  A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles …

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Source: Amazon is discussing a second multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, but wants Anthropic to use a large number of servers powered by Amazon chips  —  Amazon is discussing making a second multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, according to a person involved in the discussions.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok launches Share to TikTok, which lets users directly share music from Apple Music and Spotify in a post to their TikTok Feed or in DMs via TikTok Messages  —  TikTok on Thursday debuted a new feature that will more closely connect its app, which already influences which songs top the […]

Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two semipermeable membranes

The controversies surrounding football’s video assistant referee (VAR) system highlight our troubled relationship with uncertainty – and point to potential solutions

Associate Professor Thomas Heldt joined the MIT faculty in 2013 as a core member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Additionally, Heldt is a principal investigator with MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and he directs the Integrative Neuromonitoring and Critical Care Informatics […]

Jim Ellis II SM ’80 first learned about a special opportunity for members of the U.S. Coast Guard while stationed in Alaska. “My commander had received a notice from headquarters about this opportunity. They were asking for recommendations for an officer who might be interested,” says Ellis. The opportunity in question was the MIT Sloan […]

Look for the candidates whose skills and energy encourage everyone around them to perform better.

Leaders spend almost 40% of their time making decisions, but it’s rarely discussed in the hiring process.

A conversation with SAIC’s CEO about leading through technological disruption, managing strategic transformation, and more.

Republicans now see the value in collaborating with influencers and content creators. Their plan? Bring them under their red tent for many elections to come.

Ben Rubin, cocreator of hit pandemic chat app Houseparty, has launched a new group messaging platform that aims to solve the problems undermining trust in public conversation—using blockchain. If it fails, that’s OK by him.

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Reuters: SMIC reports Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to ~$2.17B, vs $2.2B est., and net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$148.8M, below $199.71M est., as the chip sector recovers  —  China’s largest chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (0981.HK) reported its net profit increased 58.3% for the third quarter of 2024.

Bloomberg: France’s gambling regulator says it is “aware” of Polymarket and is “currently examining its operation and compliance”, after user Fredi9999 made a $48M profit  —  – Inquiry follows publicity around French trader’s huge bets  — Online gambling and betting is tightly regulated in France

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC SVP Cliff Hou says Taiwan must improve its chip tech to maintain its global leadership; in October, Trump said that Taiwan “stole 95% of our business”  —  – Taiwan’s chip industry association chair speaks in Hsinchu  — Island plays indispensable role in AI hardware supply chain

By studying changes in gene expression, researchers learn how cells function at a molecular level, which could help them understand the development of certain diseases. But a human has about 20,000 genes that can affect each other in complex ways, so even knowing which groups of genes to target is an enormously complicated problem. Also, […]

Conspiracy theories about missing votes—which are not, in fact, missing—and something being “not right” are being spread widely on X in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.

Thanks to Elon Musk’s influence, the president-elect has waffled on the future of America’s electric transition.

Prediction markets like Kalshi beat pollsters in forecasting the 2024 US election. Mansour now says financial marketplaces are the future of political prognostication.

Meir Orbach / CTech: CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based Adaptive Shield, which offers cloud security for SaaS apps; sources say CrowdStrike will pay ~$300M for the company  —  The Israeli startup’s solutions help security teams manage the organization’s applications, identities, and detect unusual behavior within the SaaS ecosystem.

Ismail Shakil / Reuters: Canada orders TikTok’s business in the country to be dissolved, citing national security risks, and says it’s not blocking Canadians’ access to the app  —  Canada on Wednesday ordered Chinese-owned TikTok’s business in the country to be dissolved, citing national-security risks …

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Match Group reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $895M, vs. $900.9M est., paying users down 3% to 15.2M, forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; MTCH drops 12%+ after hours  —  Match Group (MTCH.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling weak demand …

By analyzing brain scans taken as people watched movie clips, MIT researchers have created the most comprehensive map yet of the functions of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, the research team identified 24 networks with different functions, which include processing language, social interactions, visual features, and other types of […]

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed particles of the asteroid Ryugu, which were collected by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission and brought back to […]

When Nikola Tesla predicted we’d have handheld phones that could display videos, photographs, and more, his musings seemed like a distant dream. Nearly 100 years later, smartphones are like an extra appendage for many of us. Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the display capabilities of other everyday objects. One avenue they’re exploring is […]

The dos and don’ts of PIPs.

How to create the opportunities employees need to explore, grow, and succeed long term.

NYU-Stern professor Pankaj Ghemawat discusses how companies can plan for an evolving world of multi-country international supply chains and cross-border information flows.