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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: LinkedIn rolls out new features to court creators, including a clickable link on images, templates for posts, and the ability to mix images and videos  —  LinkedIn announced today that it’s rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social […]

Moving like an insect may not be the most efficient way for tiny flying robots to hover – they get more lift by taking advantage of vortices of air that form under their wings

The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Bacteria use a variety of defense strategies to fight off viral infection, and some of these systems have led to groundbreaking technologies, such as CRISPR-based gene-editing. Scientists predict there are many more antiviral weapons yet to be found in the […]

Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the world’s electricity, are controlled as if they were individual, free-standing units. In fact, the vast majority are part of larger wind farm installations involving dozens or even hundreds of turbines, whose wakes can affect each other. Now, engineers at MIT and elsewhere have […]

Symbiotic relationships between legumes and the bacteria that grow in their roots are critical for plant survival. Without those bacteria, the plants would have no source of nitrogen, an element that is essential for building proteins and other biomolecules, and they would be dependent on nitrogen fertilizer in the soil.  To establish that symbiosis, some […]

Five steps to help organizations operationalize their sustainability goals.

A manager’s guide to staying together when your team is often apart.

People say they want sustainable products — and that they’re willing to pay for them — but find excuses to not follow through.

The company says an expansion of privacy features in Messenger is unrelated to a high-profile Nebraska abortion case.

This week, we look at Samsung’s latest folding phones and discuss what their release means for the mobile industry—and for Android.

The moral framework of future generations may be a radical departure from the past—and the present. Axiological open-mindedness could help bridge that gap.

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the FTC plans to begin writing online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children  —  Lack of a broad federal law has become a growing concern as online platforms and others amass troves of consumers’ search […]

Bloomberg: As Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave prepares for an IPO, it faces allegations of financial impropriety, a culture of harassment and bullying, and more  —  Africa’s largest startup Flutterwave Inc. is battling allegations of financial impropriety and personnel harassment from Lagos to Nairobi …

Felix Krause: A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram opening links in a custom in-app browser on iOS lets Meta track every interaction, including entering passwords  —  The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser.

A component of computer processors that connects different parts of the chip can be exploited by malicious agents who seek to steal secret information from programs running on the computer, MIT researchers have found. Modern computer processors contain many computing units, called cores, which share the same hardware resources. The on-chip interconnect is the component […]

The former president tried to connect the raid to the Watergate burglars. His privacy problems do relate to Nixon’s scandal—but not in the way he thinks.

The chat between a teen and her mom about an alleged abortion helped police build their case. Default end-to-end encryption would help others avoid their fate.

Before the flagship phone ever landed in users’ hands, the security team thoroughly hacked it by finding bugs and developing exploits.

Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: Bumble reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $220.5M, vs. $219.4 est., a net loss of $6.4M, vs. $2.6M est., and a Q3 guidance below estimates; shares fall 10%+  —  Online dating company trims 2022 revenue guidance; shares slide 11%  —  Bumble Inc. BMBL -1.68%▼ sales climbed in the […]

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Elliptic: cross-chain bridge RenBridge has been used to launder $540M in crime-related crypto cash since 2020; Conti ransomware group used it to launder $53M+  —  – RenBridge has been used to launder at least $540 million in crime-related crypto cash since 2020, according to new research from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Disney hits 221.1M global streaming subscribers in Q3, surpassing Netflix’s 220.7M; Disney+ had 152.1M subscribers, Hulu had 46.2M, and ESPN+ had 22.8M  —  The Walt Disney Company reported on Wednesday that total Disney+ subscriptions rose to 152.1 million during the company’s third-quarter, posting better-than-expected results.

A robot equipped with AI image recognition can identify and map rubbish on the seafloor to help prioritise clean-up operations towards the most toxic materials

An experiment using solar concentrators, which focus sunlight to a point, to roast green chillies suggests it may be possible to build portable solar cookers

Northern Virginia is home to many American Civil War battlefield sites as well as the largest concentration of data centres in the world. Plans for more data centres are now pitting preservationists and big technology companies against each other

Caspar Hare and Georgia Perakis have been appointed the new associate deans of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC), a cross-cutting initiative in the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. Their new roles will take effect on Sept. 1. “Infusing social and ethical aspects of computing in academic research and education is […]

MIT researchers have developed a method for 3D printing materials with tunable mechanical properties, that sense how they are moving and interacting with the environment. The researchers create these sensing structures using just one material and a single run on a 3D printer. To accomplish this, the researchers began with 3D-printed lattice materials and incorporated […]

            President L. Rafael Reif and Vice President for Research Maria Zuber were among those on hand Tuesday when President Biden signed the “CHIPS and Science” bill into law in an upbeat ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. The act provides $52 billion in federal funding to advance the U.S. semiconductor industry […]

Five ways to manage your time and energy while following through on commitments.

Not everyone is naturally empathic, but it’s a critical leadership skill.

Companies need a more holistic approach to developing talent.

Bloomberg: Indonesian digital wallet maker Dana raised $250M from local conglomerate Sinar Mas and Alibaba’s Lazada Group and says it processes 10M transactions/day  —  Dana, one of Indonesia’s biggest digital wallet providers, has raised $250 million from local conglomerate Sinar Mas …

Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: Snap launches Snapchat+ in India for ~$0.62 per month, offering exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features; the service costs $3.99/month in the US  —  Snapchat+, which unlocks a collection of exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features, will be available for a monthly fee of Rs 49

Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: After suffering huge losses, SoftBank plans to reduce its Alibaba stake from 23.7% as of June 30 to 14.6%, raising around $34B in the current quarter  —  Japanese tech investor has been reducing its ties to the Chinese e-commerce company and using holdings to raise cash

As an undergraduate at MIT, Jana Saadi had to find a way to fulfill her humanities class requirements. Little did she know that her decision would heavily shape her academic career. On a whim, Saadi had joined a friend in a class offered through MIT D-Lab, a project-based program aimed at helping poor communities around […]

The fact that a search of Donald Trump’s Florida home was even necessary says a lot.

New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.

The Information: Source: BeReal had 7.9M DAUs in July, up from 2M in January 2022; this spring, BeReal raised a Series B led by DST Global at a pre-money valuation of $600M  —  The siren song of a fast-growing social media network still holds investors spellbound.  —  Take BeReal.

Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head.

A soft rubber robot smaller than a postage stamp and controlled by electromagnetic forces can swim, jump and rotate – and could be used to deliver drugs or perform procedures inside a human body

Stephen Shankland / CNET: Nvidia unveils its Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine, a suite of cloud-native AI models and services for developers building 3D models of lifelike chatbot avatars  —  Stephen Shankland  —  What’s happening Why it matters  —  You’re probably used to interacting by voice with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri.

CNBC: Court and financial docs show a complex relationship between Voyager and Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda, including a possible $1.6B crypto asset loan from Voyager  —  – Voyager Digital bankruptcy court proceedings and financial documents show a complex relationship between the company and Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto firms.

A conversation about approaching difficult choices differently.

Most people in the United States have some degree of immune protection against Covid-19, either from vaccination, infection, or a combination of the two. But, just how much protection does any individual person have? MIT researchers have now developed an easy-to-use test that may be able to answer that question. Their test, which uses the […]

It is a problem that has beguiled scientists for a century. But, buoyed by a $625,000 Distinguished Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), Matteo Bucci, an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), hopes to be close to an answer. Tackling the boiling crisis Whether you’re heating a […]

Seven strategies.

Instead of either/or thinking, try both/and.

In this era of climate change and crisis, it’s time for formats as varied, animal, and leafy as the world they seek to represent.

Reuters: South Korea’s telecoms regulator plans an investigation into Apple, Google, and One Store over suspected violations of the country’s in-app payment law  —  South Korea’s telecommunications regulator on Tuesday said it plans to launch an investigation into app store operators such as Apple Inc …

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Micron plans to spend $40B by 2030 to expand US chip manufacturing capacity, aided by government grants and credits, and expects to begin production after 2025  —  Micron Technology Inc. said it will use “anticipated” government grants and credits to help it invest $40 billion by the end …

WIRED’s editor in chief weighs the merits and detriments of carbon capture and storage, plus more thoughts on this month’s headlines.