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Breaking things is an ethos for the bored, for people who live in reasonable climates and don’t have tanks in the street. That isn’t us anymore.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Aisera, which is developing an AI-based customer service requests system, raised a $90M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Thoma Bravo  —  Aisera Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered “service experience” startup that aims to enhance employee and customer experiences …

Jessica Klein / Input: An interview with Bored Ape Yacht Club creators Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow on BuzzFeed “doxxing” them, Yuga Labs, the future of BAYC, Otherside, and more  —  The evening of February 4, business partners Greg Solano, 33, and Wylie Aronow, 35, were at their respective homes …

It’s likely to apply its standard three-part playbook to transforming an industry.

Three approaches to help you ace this classic interview question.

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Y Combinator narrows its Summer cohort size by 40%, down from 414 in its Winter cohort, due to the economic downturn and changes to the VC funding environment  —  Technically, the accelerator is more exclusive now  —  Y Combinator says it has intentionally shrunk the number of startups within …

An experiment shows that overworked judges turn to the crowdsourced encyclopedia for guidance when making legal decisions.

Roman Sterlingov, accused of laundering $336 million, is proclaiming his innocence—and challenging a key investigative tool.

Washington Post: Sources: Nancy Pelosi is set to meet with TSMC’s chairman Mark Liu to discuss implementation of the Chips and Science Act during her visit to Taiwan  —  TSMC is building a chip factory in Arizona — and considering constructing several on the site — in a project seen as key to U.S. national […]

Michael Kan / PCMag: Court finds a former T-Mobile store owner guilty of hacking T-Mobile staff to access internal tools that he used to make ~$25M by unlocking customers’ phones  —  Argishti Khudaverdyan was found guilty of various offenses after he stole login credentials from more than 50 different T-Mobile employees across the US.

Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive test that measures the oxygen saturation level in a patient’s blood, and it has become an important tool for monitoring many patients, including those with Covid-19. But new research links faulty readings from pulse oximeters with racial disparities in health outcomes, potentially leading to higher rates of death and complications […]

An obsolete photographic technique that won a Nobel prize over a century ago has been resurrected to create a novel material that changes colour when stretched

A robot that can untangle long cables with just two simple grippers may be useful in aircraft and car manufacturing or as a household assistant

Don’t jump onto a sinking ship.

A conversation about increasing trust in the workplace and society.

Think: present, past, future.

Sofia Pitt / CNBC: Uber reports Q2 revenue rose 105% YoY to $8.1B, above $7.39B estimates, and a $2.6B net loss; mobility gross bookings rose 57% YoY to $13.4B; stock jumps 10%+  —  – Uber reported a net loss of $2.6 billion for the second quarter, $1.7 billion of which was attributed to investments and […]

Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: Volkswagen’s Cariad unit orders lidar sensors and software from Innoviz, worth around $4B, according to Innoviz’s CEO; Innoviz already has a deal with BMW  —  Volkswagen AG is tapping Israeli lidar company Innoviz Technologies Ltd. to provide laser sensors and software for a push to outfit …

This toaster costs a small fortune and doesn’t even toast that well—a bad deal any way you slice it.

We loved the vanilla EV6 with the best charging tech around. But this new performance version makes a fundamental mistake.

Disinformation caused one group of refugees to be welcomed with open arms, while another were dehumanized as a “demographic weapon.”

Raisa Bruner / TIME: An interview with OnlyFans CEO Ami Gan on adapting to the role, addressing safety concerns, embracing adult creators, plans to grow the platform, and more  —  When Amrapali “Ami” Gan became CEO of OnlyFans in December 2021, she wasn’t just stepping into a bigger job than her previous position …

Scientists and engineers are constantly developing new materials with unique properties that can be used for 3D printing, but figuring out how to print with these materials can be a complex, costly conundrum. Often, an expert operator must use manual trial-and-error — possibly making thousands of prints — to determine ideal parameters that consistently print […]

Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: Activision Blizzard Q2: revenue of $1.64B, down from $2.3B YoY, vs $1.57B est., net income of $280M, down from $876M YoY, and MAUs of 361M, down from 408M YoY  —  Ahead of earnings, Microsoft reportedly said Activision Blizzard has no ‘must have’ games  —  Activision Blizzard Inc. shares ticked higher …

Niket Nishant / Reuters: Global Payments plans to acquire fintech peer EVO Payments for nearly $4B, a 24% premium on EVO’s last closing price, and expects the deal to close by Q1 2023  —  Global Payments Inc (GPN.N) said on Monday it would buy smaller peer EVO Payments Inc (EVOP.O) for nearly $4 billion including […]

Meta has allowed ads that include hate speech and calls for violence ahead of the country’s elections. But experts warn that a shutdown isn’t the answer.

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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $666M, vs $667M est., global MAUs down 5% YoY to 433M, vs 431M est., and a net loss of $43M; the stock jumps 21%+  —  – Pinterest posted disappointing financial results and gave guidance that missed Wall Street expectations, but user numbers were […]

Imagine stretching a piece of film to reveal a hidden message. Or checking an arm band’s color to gauge muscle mass. Or sporting a swimsuit that changes hue as you do laps. Such chameleon-like, color-shifting materials could be on the horizon, thanks to a photographic technique that’s been resurrected and repurposed by MIT engineers. By […]

MIT Professor Christopher Capozzola has joined MIT Open Learning as senior associate dean, effective Aug. 1. Reporting to interim Vice President for Open Learning Eric Grimson, Capozzola will oversee open education offerings including OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MicroMasters, as well as the Digital Learning Lab, Digital Learning in Residential Education, and MIT Video Productions. Capozzola has […]

J-PAL North America, a research center in the MIT Department of Economics, has opened two Evaluation Incubators: the Housing Stability Evaluation Incubator and State and Local Evaluation Incubator. J-PAL North America’s Evaluation Incubators equip partners to use randomized evaluations — the most scientifically rigorous method used to study program impact — in order to generate […]

The “good guy” defense gaslights women and enables offenders.

We need measures to help people, animals, and plants survive the climate crisis.

Counterintuitively, ESG ratings reward companies that are likely to profit in the climate crisis — not those who are doing the most to fight it.

A battle between unions and Just Eat France sets a troubling precedent for platform workers.

Space fans around the world can help analyze data collected by the Mars Climate Sounder.

Absurdly long battery life and an insane array of fitness features make this small outdoor watch my favorite fitness tracker.

Financial Times: A look at Samsung’s mounting semiconductor problems: reportedly losing Qualcomm and Nvidia’s business to TSMC, Galaxy S22 lagging iPhone 13’s chips, and more  —  Move follows warnings from investors, analysts and employees that chipmaker is losing its technological edge

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: As the market downturn sees some US tech investors and startups hunkering down, others continue as normal; Q2 average investment deal sizes are at record levels  —  Market correction leaves some startups in crisis as others take employees on vacation  —  Why a 2022 Recession Would Be Unlike Any […]

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Bolt Mobility, co-founded by Usain Bolt, seems to have ceased operations and vanished from at least five US cities, leaving unusable e-bikes; Bolt raised $40.2M  —  Bolt Mobility, the Miami-based micromobility startup co-founded by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, appears to have vanished without …

Rest of World: Inside China’s $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day  —  Hidden behind the perfect faces of China’s $16 billion virtual celebrity industry is an angry, overworked labor force.

From monsters to kittens to strategy games, these sets will liven things up on nights when everyone is tired of screens.

When you buy a Samsung phone, you get a custom version of Google’s mobile operating system that comes with its own unique tools and perks.

Matt Burgess / Wired: How Tor is fighting Russia’s efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges  —  Russia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results.  —  For years, the anonymity service Tor …

Natasha Singer / New York Times: A cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing the personal data of 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling school children’s sensitive information  —  At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.

Rooms with a lot of natural light can make it hard to see some screens, but the QN90B’s mini LEDs make it a lot easier to see.

Cal Newport / New Yorker: Chasing TikTok’s success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook  —  Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms.

Nikkei Asia: A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks  —  TAIPEI — In the sweltering Asia summertime of mid-June, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. urgently dispatched a team …

Forget (almost) all other performance clothing and just get this versatile denim.

In 1973, Paul Erdős asked if it was possible to assemble sets of “triples”—three points on a graph—so that they abide by two seemingly incompatible rules.