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Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM plans to lay off about 1.5% of its global workforce, or around 3,900 jobs, focusing on workers who remained after spinning off Kyndryl and Watson Health  —  International Business Machines Corp. delivered an upbeat annual sales forecast while announcing it would eliminate about 1.5% …

DoNotPay’s AI was due to represent a defendant in court for the first time next month over a speeding ticket, but plans have been abandoned, according to the founder of the company

The AI chatbot ChatGPT is as good as standard machine learning approaches at fixing bugs in code, and does even better if you engage in dialogue with it

A millimetre-sized robot made from a mix of liquid metal and microscopic magnetic pieces can stretch, move or melt. It could be used to fix electronics or remove objects from the body

Mary Louise Morrissey, whose career at MIT spanned 45 years, including her service as director of the Information and Special Events Center, passed away peacefully on Jan. 17 at the age of 95. Morrissey joined the MIT community in 1950, working in the Registrar’s Office. At the time, all student transcripts were handwritten in India […]

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by highlighting the honors, prizes, and medals won by faculty working in our academic departments, labs, and centers. Paul Blainey of the Department of Biological Engineering received the Chan Zuckerberg […]

Approaches that will lead to better outcomes for both workers and employers.

Research found that a fictional “Sarah” got much kinder feedback than “Andrew,” even when their performance was identical.

It’s time to confront your unhealthy relationship with achievement.

The company offers estimates of the emissions impacts of flights and recipes. Businesses with sales at stake are pushing back.

Millions of eager players have overrun the legacy website.

Fat activists say they’re tools of coercion. Celebrities are taking them to get slim. Is this really the road people want to go down?

Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: Wharton School Professor Christian Terwiesch found OpenAI’s ChatGPT was able to pass a final exam for the school’s MBA program, scoring between B- and B  —  ChatGPT uses AI to pass final exam at UPenn’s Wharton  —  New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found […]

Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue down 3.4% YoY to $4.67B, breaking a run of double-digit growth since 2020, and issues tepid Q1 guidance below estimates  —  Texas Instruments Inc., one of the world’s largest chipmakers, suffered its first sales decline since 2020 and gave a tepid forecast …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: UK-based enterprise VR training startup Gemba, used by Coca-Cola, Pfizer, and more, raised an $18M Series A led by Parkway; courses can cost ~$7,250 per person  —  Gemba, an enterprise-focused virtual reality (VR) training startup used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has raised $18 million in a Series A […]

A skin crafted from two layers of electrodes around an ion-infused sponge is better at sensing than human skin because it can detect nearby objects and what they are made of

Machine learning can analyse how the signals from Wi-Fi transmitters are disrupted by human bodies to reveal what position people are sitting, standing or lying in

In 1941, the National Academy of Sciences appointed a committee to assess the use of gas turbine engines — which use heat released during fuel combustion to produce thrust for propulsion — in aviation. The group of luminaries concluded that due to the temperature limitations of existing materials, gas turbines did not have much of […]

Electric vehicles are selling fast. But unless people change how they get around, the demand for battery materials threatens its own environmental disaster.

These services deliver freshly roasted, delicious coffee picks right to your door—each with its own twist.

Do you need new leggings, or a robe? Get ones made from recycled bottles or deadstock.

Measuring activity in the human brain remains one of the greatest challenges in science and medicine. Despite recent technological advances in areas such as imaging and nanoscience, researchers still struggle to accurately detect cognition. Currently, functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to measure brain activity, but this method requires the patient to lie still […]

Members of the Department of Mathematics community — including faculty, students, and alumni — were recognized for their achievements at the recent 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston. Professor Tom Mrowka and his Harvard University collaborator Peter Kronheimer received the 2023 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research, awarded by the American Mathematical Society […]

J-PAL North America has announced that Matthew “Matt” Notowidigdo ’03, MEng ’04, PhD ’10, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is joining Amy Finkelstein as co-scientific director of the organization, replacing Lawrence “Larry” Katz.  Katz is stepping down after nearly 10 years of supporting the growth and development of […]

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Research suggests it has a positive — and sizable — impact on firm performance.

A conversation with podcaster and journalist Guy Raz about the recipe for success.

Experts fear sales of the technology also export authoritarian ideas about biometric surveillance. The second largest exporter is the US.

The notorious Russian-speaking cybercriminals grew successful by keeping a low profile. But now they have a target on their backs.

Whether you’re enjoying a free trial or signed up purely for Ted Lasso, these are WIRED’s top picks for Apple TV+.

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: A second Twitter whistleblower told the FTC and Congress last year that engineers can access “GodMode” and tweet from any account, supporting Mudge’s complaint  —  Too many people can still access a program that lets them tweet under any account, he says in a complaint

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Binance acknowledges mistakenly storing collateral for some of its tokens in the same wallet as customer funds; reserves for around 47 coins are in one wallet  —  Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest crypto platform, acknowledged that it mistakenly keeps collateral for some of the tokens …

Wired: Researcher: for over a year, India’s education ministry app Diksha exposed the names, phone numbers, and email IDs of over 1M teachers via an unsecured server  —  A mandatory app exposed the personal information of students and teachers across the country for over a year.

Employees of outsourcing company Majorel have accused it of underpaying moderators and failing to support them.

Or how, exactly, platforms die.

If you use screens for work and play, your child probably does too. These are the best pairs we’ve bought and tested for our own kids.

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Internal messages: TikTok told some of its US workers they could lose their jobs unless they show they have moved to an address near their assigned offices  —  TikTok is cracking down on remote work, telling some U.S. workers they could lose their jobs unless they show they have already […]

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Source: Satya Nadella voiced concerns Microsoft was slow to commercialize its AI research advances; in 2022, its researchers said Apple and Google seemed ahead  —  For more than a decade, Microsoft Research, the company’s in-house research group, has touted artificial intelligence breakthroughs …

Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin’s website: How a system for “stealth addresses”, using zero-knowledge proofs, may offer an easier, better way to improve privacy on Ethereum vs. hiding or mixing transfers  —  Special thanks to Ben DiFrancesco, Matt Solomon, Toni Wahrstätter and Antonio Sanso for feedback and review

In science and technology, there has been a long and steady drive toward improving the accuracy of measurements of all kinds, along with parallel efforts to enhance the resolution of images. An accompanying goal is to reduce the uncertainty in the estimates that can be made, and the inferences drawn, from the data (visual or […]

Even when your manager isn’t inclined to give it or your workplace doesn’t do performance reviews.

Four ways to become your own best advocate.

Ten strategies to promote a free exchange of ideas.

Sure, three-year-olds and critics love this animated series about a family of dogs. But its most vocal fans may be grownup commenters on TikTok.

If you agree to provide some of your car’s battery power in times of high energy demand, you’ll get paid, and help make the grid more stable.

The EV giant is alienating its customers, bringing in less revenue, and falling behind legacy carmakers.

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: The recent tech layoffs highlight a generational divide between younger workers, experiencing their first downturn, and older workers, who have been here before  —  The industry’s recent job cuts have been an awakening for a generation of workers who have never experienced a cyclical crash.

Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: Nokia signs a multiyear cross-license patent agreement with Samsung, covering fundamental 5G and other tech, after the previous deal expired at the end of 2022  —  Nokia Oyj signed a new multiyear cross-license patent agreement with Samsung Electronics that enables the handset maker to use Nokia’s technology in its products.

Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Genesis Global Capital’s bankruptcy marks the end of an era of crypto lenders trying to bring the centuries-old banking model to digital currencies  —  Risk in crypto-lending sector was poorly managed, subjecting users to heavy losses after epic boom  —  The late-night bankruptcy filing …

Since its founding in 1998, Vecna Technologies has developed a number of ways to help hospitals care for patients. The company has produced intake systems to respond to Covid-19 patient surges, prediction systems to manage health complications in maternity wards, and telepresence robots that have allowed sick people to stay connected with friends and loved […]