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Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: FTX-linked Alameda Research withdrew ~$37M worth of wrapped bitcoin from crypto exchange FTX.US on Wednesday  —  The purpose of the token movements is unclear, and the amount likely a small portion of the overall firm’s holdings, but the observation shows Alameda scrambling to arrange its finances – using the Ethereum blockchain.

Drawing inspiration from the way ecologists measure biodiversity, a method to score an AI’s diversity could help determine how biased a computer system is

IBM’s new quantum computer, Osprey, is more than triple the size of its previous record-breaking Eagle processor

Every summer, hundreds of students come to Lincoln Laboratory to gain hands-on research experience. Historically, the laboratory’s summer research program has primarily served undergraduate and graduate students, with their internships complementing their fields of study. A few local high school students have participated in this program over the years through AFCEA International, a nonprofit providing […]

“The past six years have been the warmest on the planet, and our track record on climate change mitigation is drastically short of what it needs to be,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th Annual Research Conference. At the symposium, participants from […]

A faraway island. An evil magician. A prince transformed into a teapot. A princess on a rescue mission. When the first performance of the “Ballet des Porcelaines” was staged at the Chateau de Morville in 1739, the orientalist fairy tale seemed innocent enough. However, when the art historian Meredith Martin encountered the lost libretto in […]

New regulations are forcing companies to confront the issue.

Risk is often more predictable than you might think.

Five steps to take — before you start looking for a new job.

The network’s servers are overrun by almost half a million new sign-ups, as Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has thrust it into the spotlight.

Many people haven’t been exposed to common respiratory viruses following the pandemic, meaning they might be more vulnerable to getting ill this year.

Hunting down crypto criminals is a dying art as law enforcement officers jump in-house.

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple is working on a Custom Accessibility Mode for iOS 16.2 beta 2, codenamed Clarity, helping make the iPhone’s and the iPad’s UI more user-friendly  —  Apple on Tuesday released iOS 16.2 beta 2 to developers as the company gets ready to make the update available to the public in December.

Meta: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to lay off 13% of its staff, or 11,000+ employees, and will cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1  —  Mark Zuckerberg just shared the following with Meta employees:  —  Today I’m sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.

Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with CEO Dylan Field on scaling Figma, selling the company to Adobe, retaining autonomy, WebGL, making VR Figma for the metaverse, AGI, and more  —  We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you’re here. … Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of […]

To explain why he loves electron microscopy, Associate Professor James LeBeau uses an analogy: He likens the technique, which uses beams of electrons to illuminate materials at a scale thousands of times smaller than conventional microscopes, to the inverse of astronomy. “It’s discovering things that no human has ever seen before that really captures the […]

Nothing beats in-person efforts to boost a campaign. But rising platforms are helping connect politicians with the rest of us.

True the Vote’s IV3 app is meant to catch election cheaters. But it has a fundamental flaw.

Teenagers can be scary, but these adolescent-approved gifts are sweet.

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Coin Metrics: on Tuesday, bitcoin fell 12.6% to $18,203 and briefly hit $17,300.80, its lowest level since November 2020; ether dropped 18.2% to $1,311.50  —  Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT  —  WATCH NOW  —  FTX token plunges as Binance steps in to buy the crypto exchange’s non-U.S. unit: CNBC Crypto […]

Bloomberg: Sources: UMG, Sony, and Warner have been negotiating with ByteDance for a share of TikTok ad revenue and increased royalties before their contracts expire  —  TikTok has attracted more than 1 billion users with videos set to music.  Now the world’s largest record labels want the social media app to pay more for those […]

Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitter plans to label select accounts “Official” when the new Blue launches; not all previously verified accounts will get the label, which won’t be for sale  —  Twitter is rolling out another type of check mark to help distinguish accounts that users actually need to know are real.

A $9 billion class-action lawsuit has been filed against Microsoft, code-sharing site GitHub and artificial intelligence firm OpenAI for the way their tool Copilot uses people’s code

At a signing ceremony last week, leaders from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) announced the Hasso Plattner Institute-MIT Research Program on Designing for Sustainability. This research collaboration, funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation, is an eight-year program to drive joint […]

Accra, Ghana, “is a city I’ve come to know as well as any place in the U.S,” says Associate Professor Noah Nathan, who has conducted research there over the past 15 years. The booming capital of 4 million is an ideal laboratory for investigating the rapid urbanization of nations in Africa and beyond, believes Nathan, […]

We can’t move the pendulum on DEI until we all see ourselves as enablers of inclusive workplaces.

A conversation with a former professional poker player about changing our decision-making process.

Using a chatbot allows the procurement team to focus more on strategic relationships, exceptions, and continuous improvement.

The long-suffering staffers who remain at the company are scrambling to regroup and adapt to a new management style.

While America’s top doc fought Covid, deniers fought him. He still can’t figure out why.

After celebrities adopted his profile to protest new rules, Musk threatened to permanently suspend anyone impersonating a user without a “parody” label.

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Nintendo reports Q2 operating profit of ~$809M, up from ~$685M YoY, and cuts its fiscal year Switch sales forecast by 10% to 19M; a weakened yen boosts results  —  Nintendo Co. cut its fiscal-year forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million after reporting earnings in line with expectations.

Ryan Mac / New York Times: As Twitter’s problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April  —  The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify […]

Bloomberg: Indonesia-based PT Global Digital Niaga, which owns e-commerce group Blibli, raised ~$509M in Jakarta’s second-largest IPO in 2022, after GoTo’s $1.1B April IPO  —  PT Global Digital Niaga, the owner of Indonesia’s e-commerce group Blibli, ended its first day of trade unchanged …

By taking advantage of a phenomenon that leads to fractures in metal, MIT researchers have designed medical devices that could be used inside the body as stents, staples, or drug depots, then safely broken down on demand when they’re no longer needed. The researchers showed that biomedical devices made from aluminum can be disintegrated by […]

The chaos engulfing the platform provides an opportunity to reclaim control of your online life, without logging off for good.

Voter intimidation has cropped up in places across the nation, but the voting booth remains the one place where nobody can get to you.

A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market’s crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker’s floorboards.

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Activision Blizzard reports Q3 net bookings down 3% YoY to $1.83B vs. $1.7B est., and MAUs down 6% YoY to 368M; Modern Warfare II made $1B+ in its first 10 days  —  Activision Blizzard reported that its bookings for the third quarter ended September 30 fell 3% to $1.83 billion compared […]

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal launches its Stories feature out of beta on Android and iOS; users’ Stories will automatically expire after 24 hours  —  End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a new Stories feature to all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday.

Alex Heath / The Verge: Source: Twitter is telling advertisers the site added 15M+ mDAUs since the end of Q2, “crossing the quarter billion mark”; Musk also tweeted user numbers are up  —  Twitter’s daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform …

Like millions of others during the global Covid-19 lockdowns, Emmanuel Kasigazi, an entrepreneur from Uganda, turned to YouTube to pass the time. But he wasn’t following an influencer or watching music videos. A lifelong learner, Kasigazi was scouring the video-sharing platform for educational resources. Since 2013, when he got his first smartphone, Kasigazi has been […]

MIT.nano has announced that UpNano US Inc., a company that manufactures and supplies high-precision and high-resolution 3D printing instruments for academia and industry, has joined the MIT.nano Consortium. This engagement, initially planned for two years, will include locating one of UpNano’s NanoOne 1000 instruments in MIT.nano. “We’re thrilled to welcome UpNano to the MIT.nano Consortium,” […]

In unpacking one woman’s dilemma, we pull out advice for anyone in a serious relationship.

New studies explore its impact on hiring, employee experience, and more.

New research from economists at LinkedIn suggests that conventional metrics may be misleading.

Twitter’s new CEO also leads Tesla, SpaceX, and startups working on tunnel digging and brain implants. His social media project will make it harder to juggle them all.

Edward Perez says that “manufactured chaos” by bad actors will be even riskier thanks to Elon Musk’s own mayhem.

Sky-high energy prices have people turning to wood to provide a cheaper alternative—and EU laws are helping incentivize this.

Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg: Algerian startup Yassir, which offers on-demand ride hailing, banking, and more, raised $150M led by BOND to expand overseas, bringing its funding to $193M  —  Startup Yassir secured $150 million from global investors in North Africa’s largest fundraising as the tech firm seeks to roll out its super app overseas.