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How leaders can apply the science of emotional regulation to help their teams stay on track.

A conversation with Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger about what makes us happy in the long term.

Make sure even your worst moment makes a good impression.

Abstaining from alcohol can have immediate benefits. But lasting gains require lasting change.

Where you went to school won’t matter as much as what you can actually do now.

Right-wing networks from Brazil and the US fueled calls for violence. Experts accuse tech platforms of looking the other way.

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Coinbase plans to lay off a further ~950 employees, or ~20% of its workforce, seeking to reduce its operating expense by 25% QoQ; Coinbase laid off 18% in June  —  – Coinbase is cutting a fifth of its workforce following an 18% staff reduction in June.  — CEO Brian Armstrong pointed […]

Financial Times: VaynerMedia: in 2022, buying 1K video ad impressions on TikTok cost around 50% less than Instagram’s Reels, ~33% less than Twitter, and 62% less than Snapchat  —  Advertisers and brands say an increasing amount of digital ads spend is moving away from Meta, YouTube and Twitter

Tim Copeland / The Block: Coin ATM Rader: there are now 38,641 bitcoin ATMs globally, up from 14,051 at the start of 2021 but flat from around July 2022 when bitcoin’s price collapsed  —  – The number of Bitcoin ATMs globally has largely remained flat over the last six months.  — While that’s mostly due […]

The free mental health service Koko experimented with using an AI chatbot to help respond to people seeking support has drawn criticism as being unethical and lacking transparency

A new method could greatly reduce the time and expense needed for certain important safety checks in nuclear power reactors. The approach could save money and increase total power output in the short run, and it might increase plants’ safe operating lifetimes in the long run. One of the most effective ways to control greenhouse […]

Juro Osawa / The Information: Sources: e-commerce spending on ByteDance’s Douyin in China reached $208B in 2022, up 76% YoY; shoppers in Southeast Asia spent $4.4B on TikTok in 2022  —  TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, is making inroads in e-commerce.  Consumers in China last year spent 1.41 trillion yuan …

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Meta plans to stop new software updates and some social features for the original Quest but will fix critical bugs until 2024; the headset launched in 2019  —  Meta is planning to stop supporting the original Quest VR headset with new software updates, and soon anyone using the older hardware […]

VentureBeat: Dallas-based Worlds, whose “digital twins” of industrial companies’ floor operations help boost productivity, raised a $21.2M Series A1 led by Moneta Ventures  —  Worlds Enterprises, a company that builds digital twins of floor operations for industrial companies to let them become …

Shortly after being awarded tenure in July, Cem Tasan was asked to give a talk about what it took to earn the appointment.    Tasan, the Thomas B. King Associate Professor of Metallurgy in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), would speak directly to his peers, his students, and others in his […]

Learning has always come naturally to Brandon Ogbunu. When he was a child growing up in Manhattan, his mother, a teacher, instilled in him an appreciation for school, the sciences, and curiosity. At work, she taught mathematics, social studies, and special education. At home, she taught her son to embrace art, literature, and sports in […]

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Extra ventilation often means using more energy — but it doesn’t have to.

Had a long day and still want to stream something? These tips from sleep experts will help you stay awake till the credits roll.

Novelist Ning Ken’s history of Beijing’s Zhongguancun district shows how two generations of professors and tech entrepreneurs helped make the country more open.

The country’s surge in cases is a human tragedy but isn’t showing signs of changing the Covid picture in the West—where the virus is already running free.

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: SteamDB: Valve’s Steam platform crossed 10M concurrent in-game players for the first time on January 7 and recently exceeded 33M concurrent online users  —  Valve’s game distribution platform Steam had a record-breaking weekend, exceeding 10 million concurrent in-game players for the first time …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: London-based insurance broker Superscript, which offers a “self-serve” platform for SMEs, sole traders, and others, raised a £45M Series B led by BHL UK  —  Superscript, an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million …

Financial Times: Sources: UK PM Rishi Sunak met Arm CEO Rene Haas and Masayoshi Son to revive efforts to secure a London listing for Cambridge-based Arm’s IPO alongside New York  —  Officials and London Stock Exchange face uphill battle to secure UK role for chip designer’s IPO

Wi-Fi devices acknowledge each other, even when not connected to the same network, and hackers can exploit this to drain their batteries

A bit of turbulence in the job market can affect people in different ways. Consider the Egyptian scholar Taqiyy al-Din Ahmad ibn ‘Ali al-Maqrizi (1364-1442). In the early 1400s, after about a quarter-century of frustration in seeking short-lived administrative jobs and wealthy patrons in Cairo, al-Maqrizi became fed up for good. He retreated to his […]

Need to grab a clip from Twitter or remix that YouTube meme compilation? These tools can help.

The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New research shows how and why they are different.

Microsoft’s subscription service includes captivating titles like Potion Craft, Metal: Hellsinger, and Pentiment.

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Meta says it is weeks away from announcing its decision on reinstating Trump, who continues to harass 2020 election workers by name, as recently as last week  —  The platform cut Trump’s indefinite suspension to two years at the urging of its Oversight Board.  But that doesn’t mean he’s coming […]

Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating “deep synthesis” tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week  —  Beijing is among the first governments to regulate hyper-realistic, AI-generated media

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn’t yet emerged  —  We’re seeing the truth about one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade.  —  After years of hype, the Creator Economy is […]

Depending on who you are, this can be much more complicated than “whenever I feel like it.”

WIRED photographer Roger Kisby captures the glory, madness, and optimism of the consumer tech extravaganza.

Beyond just getting us from A to B, 2023’s vehicles want their drivers to be happier, healthier, and safer.

Oliver Whang / New York Times: A look at Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab, which is exploring questions around artificial consciousness and the possibility of self-aware robots  —  The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot.  But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.

Allison Johnson / The Verge: After years of hype, 5G took a back seat at CES 2023, as the industry focuses on laying the groundwork for self-driving cars, AR, and expanding IoT in cities  —  When it wasn’t being overshadowed by covid resurgences, CES, for the past few years, has partially functioned as a big […]

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Seattle Public Schools sue TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies for allegedly causing a youth mental health crisis  —  A new lawsuit filed by Seattle Public Schools against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies alleges …

When deep learning models are deployed in the real world, perhaps to detect financial fraud from credit card activity or identify cancer in medical images, they are often able to outperform humans. But what exactly are these deep learning models learning? Does a model trained to spot skin cancer in clinical images, for example, actually […]

Aside from color-morphing concepts and Tron-inspired bikes, this year’s show was about how car and tech companies will work closer together in the future.

Plus: Russian spies uncovered in Europe, face recognition leads to another wrongful arrest, a new porn ID law, and more.

Plus: Apple reportedly cancels the next iPhone SE, Google gets HD maps into cars, and all the CES news you could ever want.

Callum Cyrus / Tech.eu: Marseille-based Volta Medical, whose AI assistant helps surgeons in cardiac ablation procedures, raised a €36M Series B, bringing its total funding to over €70M  —  Marseille-based Volta Medical is preparing for additional clinical trials, after successfully winning CE and FDA-approval …

Bloomberg: Some companies are taking a liberal interpretation of California’s pay transparency law with wide pay ranges; one Netflix job posting has a $90K-$900K pay range  —  A Tesla Inc. software engineer could earn anywhere from $83,200 to $417,600.  Netflix Inc. has one job posting advertising …

Kylie Robison / Fortune: Sources: some former US Twitter employees finally received their severance agreements, offering only one month of base pay as severance and no prorated bonuses  —  Following further delays this week, some former Twitter employees finally received their official severance agreements on Saturday …

The technology could draw more players into the pricey hobby by allowing people to design their own pieces and even develop their own games.

From gaming headsets to electric in-line skates, here’s everything announced at the tech trade show that you can actually order today.

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers’ decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim networks  —  The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers’ servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.

Darío Gil / Fortune: IBM SVP and Director of Research says the company will no longer pursue numeric patent leadership and will instead focus on open innovation and collaboration  —  For 29 years straight, IBM has led the United States in minting patents, at its peak filing over 10,000 US patent applications …