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As America’s largest investment to fight climate change, the Inflation Reduction Act positions the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. But as it edges the United States closer to achieving its international climate commitment, the legislation is also expected to yield significant — and more immediate […]

In 2019, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, launched a $1 billion philanthropic commitment to identify global talent. Part of that effort is the Rise initiative, which selects 100 young scholars, ages 15-17, from around the world who show unusual promise and a drive to serve others. This year’s cohort of 100 […]

The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored a number of individuals with ties to MIT with prizes and awards for their contributions to physics. They include: Institute Professor Arup Chakraborty; associate professors Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz and Lina Necib; Yuan Cao SM ’16 PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and several […]

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Tools such as 3D printing, simulations, and AI are changing the calculation of labor costs.

Sharing your ideas is critical to boosting your profile at work — but so is picking the right moment.

The Defender Guard Pro stores your footage locally and delivers clear video—and you can do it all on a budget.

Florida’s storms unleashed deadly vibrio bacteria in their wake. They’ll be a growing threat as the world gets warmer and wetter.

Across the country, people are struggling to fill their prescriptions. And with the government’s lack of concern, this deficit could turn deadly.

Tom Warren / The Verge: An interview with Panos Panay and other Microsoft executives on creating the Surface lineup, difficulties along the way, failed products, and future plans  —  Microsoft looks to the future of redefining personal computers once again  —  In the weeks before the first Surface tablet was announced …

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: A profile of Delaware Chancery Court judge Kathaleen McCormick, who is overseeing the Elon Musk-Twitter dispute, ahead of the Friday deadline to close the deal  —  Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware’s Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter.

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based Trigo Vision, a cashierless checkout startup working with Tesco, Aldi, and others, raised $100M co-led by Temasek and 83North  —  An Israeli startup making technology for cashier-free payment at brick-and-mortar stores has raised $100 million.

To combat the scourge of bots and fake accounts, the dating site will ask users to prove their humanity by capturing a video selfie.

Tote your photo and video gear around in style. We tested more than 60 packs and rounded up our favorites.

Whether you’re looking for an all-arounder, a gaming powerhouse, or a wallet-friendly machine, we’ve found discounts from trusted retailers.

Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta says Apple’s updated App Store rules requiring developers to use IAPs for sales of “boosts” in social media apps undercuts others in the digital economy  —  Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn’t get more hostile, here we are.

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Alphabet’s “Other Bets” had a Q3 operating loss of $1.61B, up from $1.29B YoY, on revenue of $209M, up from $182M YoY  —  Alphabet today announced Q3 2022 earnings with $69.1 billion in revenue.  These numbers range from July to September with the fiscal year almost coming to a close.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Satya Nadella says more than 20M people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, double the 10M figure that Microsoft shared in April 2022  —  More than 20 million people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday during the company’s first-quarter fiscal 2023 earnings […]

After removing images generated by artificial intelligence models from its archives last month, Shutterstock is now going to sell ones created exclusively by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 AI

Mitochondria — the organelles responsible for energy production in human cells — were once free-living organisms that found their way into early eukaryotic cells over a billion years ago. Since then, they have merged seamlessly with their hosts in a classic example of symbiotic evolution, and now rely on many proteins made in their host cell’s […]

Reflecting on the mission and approach of SENSEable City Lab at MIT and his role as its director, Carlo Ratti quotes the Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, who said, “The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be — how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and […]

Using a simple set of magnets, MIT researchers have come up with a sophisticated way to monitor muscle movements, which they hope will make it easier for people with amputations to control their prosthetic limbs. In a new pair of papers, the researchers demonstrated the accuracy and safety of their magnet-based system, which can track […]

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Mutually beneficial partnerships can both drive profit and alleviate poverty.

Investors have a quantitative understanding of how the market values a company. Management teams should too.

Growers are using images taken from space to quantify how much carbon is stored in their soil and validate the credits they’re selling.

Keep tabs on your cat’s bathroom habits—and catch potential health issues early—with this scale and app developed by Purina.

There doesn’t have to be a trade-off between good research and fast research.

Bloomberg: Nigeria’s eNaira digital currency, launched in October 2021, is used by less than 0.5% of Nigerians, leading the government to add incentives to aid adoption  —  A year after launching Africa’s first digital currency, Nigeria’s central bank is turning to the nation’s three-wheeler taxi operators …

James Vincent / The Verge: Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to begin selling DALL-E 2-generated stock imagery “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators  —  Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry?  It’s a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years.

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: the underlying tech, its uses and meaning, the crypto financial system, and trust, money, and community  —  – What If You Don’t Like It?  — Digital Cash  —  Part II  —  What Does It Mean?  — A Store of Value  — A Distributed Computer

In the early 2000s, David Kaiser first visited famed physicist Freeman Dyson at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. By the end of the conversation, Dyson was handing over keys to his office, along with files, to help Kaiser’s research — a characteristically open gesture by Dyson, a legendary quantum theorist. The […]

When it comes to battery innovations, much attention gets paid to potential new chemistries and materials. Often overlooked is the importance of production processes for bringing down costs. Now the MIT spinout 24M Technologies has simplified lithium-ion battery production with a new design that requires fewer materials and fewer steps to manufacture each cell. The […]

The company is celebrating its 53rd anniversary with a deals bonanza that runs through November 1.

Get cameras, headphones, and smart home gadgets before Halloween even arrives.

The Pixel 6A is just $299—its lowest price ever—but you can also pick up the Pixel Buds Pro and Nest Audio at a discount.

Stacy Elliott / Decrypt: Coinbase to custody $1.6B worth of MakerDAO’s USDC treasury after MakerDAO community voted 75% in favor; a pilot will run through 2022, with new voting in 2023  —  The MakerDAO pilot will run through the end of 2022 before the community needs to vote on whether to keep its USDC with […]

Meir Orbach / CTech: Cybersecurity startup Snyk lays off 198 employees, or 14% of its staff, after laying off 30 people in July 2022; Snyk was valued at $8.5B in September 2021  —  The Israeli-founded company raised $530 million at an $8.5 billion valuation last year  —  Israeli cybersecurity unicorn Snyk …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: macOS Ventura review: Stage Manager has some good ideas and runs much better on the Mac than on the iPad, the new System Settings app is inconsistent, and more  —  A pleasantly surprising new multitasking UI and app redesigns define macOS 13.  —  If you asked me to tell you […]

An increasing number of large shipping companies are trying out technologies that blow bubbles underneath a ship’s hull, in an attempt to save fuel and reduce emissions

It may have a history of over-optimistic predictions, but research into generating power using a fusion reactor is finally making notable advances

The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to 14 members of its faculty in the departments of Biological Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (which reports jointly to the School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing), Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. “I am […]

A good math problem is like a walled, secret garden, according to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) head and MIT Professor Asu Ozdaglar, who was addressing an audience of middle and high school female-identifying mathematics contestants at the 14th annual Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) event. “Many people walking around the outside […]

From its new headquarters in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, The Engine is investing in a number of “tough tech” startups seeking to transform the world’s energy systems. A few blocks away, the startup Inari is using gene editing to improve seeds’ resilience to climate change. On the MIT campus nearby, researchers are working on groundbreaking innovations […]

You’ll need purpose, not just money, to have a fulfilling post-work life.

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Bias affects whose ideas are heard — and whose are given short shrift.

Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these WIRED-tested comfy seats.

For months, an anonymous caller has terrorized communities around the US by reporting false shooting threats. We know how they did it. The question is, why?

At the end of its 39th season, it’s become clear the Time Lord’s world, despite always regenerating, has become static and small.