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Asked once about the most difficult part of her research, Danna Freedman could not stop referring to obstacles as opportunities, and to challenges as excitement. “Every time we hit a barrier it enables us to discover new science,” she told an interviewer at Northwestern University in 2017, describing difficulties encountered in her research as among […]

Rieko Miki / Nikkei Asia: The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan  —  Economic and diplomatic chiefs to discuss supply chains at 2+2 meeting Friday  —  Taiwan hosts the lion’s share …

Monica Chin / The Verge: Dell XPS 13 Plus review: thin with a great OLED screen and a powerful P-series chip but expensive, gets very hot, mediocre battery life, and very few ports  —  The XPS 13 has a new design and a whole bunch of new problems  —  Dell collectively shocked everyone who follows […]

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in the scooter rental sector collapse  —  Almost exactly five years ago, the scooters came.  That’s when Bird, the first unicorn in this once sizzling startup sector, launched […]

New York Times: Some streamers on Twitch, a more intimate platform than others, endure threats and stalkers and say Twitch gives limited support when dangerous situations arise  —  Stars on Twitch, the video game streaming platform, invite viewers into their homes virtually.  What happens when one shows up in person?

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: How Modi’s government is increasingly skirting India’s own internet rules to crack down on free speech and dissent on social media, under a “fake news” pretext  —  Sandeep Ravindranath, an Indian filmmaker, posted his latest work to YouTube in May. The video …

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Chaotic returns leave some communities with an abundance of fish, and others with none.

If you’re buying games or services for a family, this subscription service is worth a look. We break down the cost, features, and highlights.

Bloomberg: Sources: the Commerce Department has told all US chipmaking equipment manufacturers to not supply gear to China for fabs for making 14nm chips or below  —  The US is tightening restrictions on China’s access to chipmaking gear, according to two major equipment suppliers …

Lori Garver’s new memoir details her struggles to get NASA colleagues to embrace SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Probably not, but tell that to the conspiracy theorists.

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Elon Musk countersues Twitter over the merger agreement in a confidential filing in a Delaware court  —  – Elon Musk counter sued Twitter on Friday, intensifying the conflict between the social networking company and centi-billionaire but keeping details hidden from the public.

Sagar Naresh / SamMobile: Samsung announces a feature that keeps users’ data secure during a phone repair, starting with the Galaxy S21 series in South Korea  —  You’ll obviously have some anxiety about the security of your data if you leave your smartphone at a repair center for a couple of days.

Earnings season was dominated by two companies—both existential threats to their competition.

Strategy Analytics: Global smartphone shipments fell 7% YoY to 291M units in Q2 2022; Samsung had a 21.5% market share, followed by Apple’s 16.3%, its best Q2 in the past 10 years  —  BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— According to new research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments fell -7% YoY to 291 million units in Q2 2022.

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Five strategies to help you set healthy boundaries.

Law enforcement officers face an air assault as drugs, weapons and phones are flown in to prisoners.

This summer’s heat wave knocked roads, railways, and runways out of action. But existing solutions could help shore up critical infrastructure.

My rooftop panels showed me that a world powered by renewables would be an overflowing horn of plenty, with fast, sporty cars and comfy homes.

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU is considering creating a new directorate headed by two top antitrust officials, amid concerns EU competition watchdog may struggle to enforce DMA  —  The European Commission is considering creating a new directorate that may be headed by two top antitrust officials to enforce tough …

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: Sources: a Chinese government PR division asked to open a stealth account on TikTok, targeting Western audiences; TikTok declined the “sensitive” request  —  A Chinese government entity responsible for public relations attempted to open a stealth account on TikTok targeting Western audiences …

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Lina Khan’s attempt to block Meta’s Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries  —  Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.

An artificial intelligence voice jammer can unobtrusively block microphones recording a single voice in an area, avoiding causing wider disruption that might tip people off

Getting a scan usually means a visit to a doctor and some giant equipment. What if that gear was wearable?

The $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act wants to jumpstart the domestic semiconductor industry, starting with manufacturing.

Kharishar Kahfi / The Block: Space and Time, a decentralized blockchain data platform, raised a $10M seed led by Framework Ventures, and says it is building a new cryptographic protocol  —  Framework Ventures is leading the seed funding round.  —  The $10 million in funds will be used to add engineers to work on the […]

Fans went all-out for the first in-person Comic-Con since Covid-19 hit.

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel is winding down its Optane memory business, incurring a $559M inventory impairment; it’s Intel’s sixth non-core business sold under CEO Pat Gelsinger  —  3D XPoint at the last crossroad.  —  Intel’s Q2 2022 earnings report today was uncharacteristically disappointing …

Bloomberg: An in-depth look at the issues facing Afterpay, Klarna, Affirm, and other BNPL players, such as economic uncertainty, competition, regulators, and customer debt  —  For three days each week during the month of April in 2014, a seasoned product manager named Lulu Young, an engineering manager …

Networks of nanoscale resistors that work in a similar way to nerve cells in the body could offer advantages over digital machine learning

A patch the size of a postage stamp can continuously deliver ultrasound imaging for 48 hours, and it has been used to see changes in the lungs, heart and stomach of people exercising and drinking

Investigators in the US found they could acquire enough radioactive material to build a “dirty bomb” by using fake companies and fraudulent licences

To the outside world, much of what goes on at MIT can seem mysterious. But the MIT Museum, whose new location is in the heart of Kendall Square, wants to change that. With a specially designed space by architects Höweler + Yoon, new exhibitions, and new public programs, this fall marks a reset for the […]

As scientists push the boundaries of machine learning, the amount of time, energy, and money required to train increasingly complex neural network models is skyrocketing. A new area of artificial intelligence called analog deep learning promises faster computation with a fraction of the energy usage. Programmable resistors are the key building blocks in analog deep […]

Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body’s workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient’s internal organs. To capture these images, trained technicians manipulate ultrasound wands and probes to direct sound waves into the body. These waves reflect back out to produce high-resolution images of a patient’s heart, lungs, and […]

How entrepreneurs can decide whether to pursue corporate funding, and if so, which CVC to pick.

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John Loeffler / TechRadar: Recent AMD and Nvidia leaks show upcoming GPUs will consume excessive amounts of power, creating a high environmental cost for limited improvement in graphics  —  The planet may burn but at least the end will be ray-traced at 8K  —  A number of recent news items over the past few weeks […]

Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist: DeepMind says AlphaFold has predicted the structure of almost every protein cataloged by science, over 200M in total, a problem in biology for decades  —  Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science in just 18 months …

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Twitter tests a status feature for tweets, letting users add a label from a pre-determined list, in the US and Australia  —  Facebook is trying to be TikTok, but now, Twitter is bringing us back a little bit of Facebook (or LiveJournal, or Myspace).  Some users are reporting …

A device can eavesdrop on someone talking near a fibre-optic cable, even if there is a large distance between them

Growing up in South Africa at the turn of the century, Emma Gibson saw the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its devastating impact on her home country, where many people lacked life-saving health care. At the time, Gibson was too young to understand what a sexually transmitted infection was, but she knew that HIV […]

Sometimes the best way to cool down is to heat things up.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year”  —  – It appears the economy has begun a downturn, said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, on the company’s Q2 earnings call.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google unveils new Chromebook productivity features, including video editing for Google Photos, PDF editing in Gallery, and the ability to save a virtual desk  —  Google today announced that it is adding a new movie editor and a few new video editing features to Google Photos …

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: By the end of 2023, Mark Zuckerberg expects 30%+ of content recommendations on Instagram and Facebook will be served by Meta’s AI, double what they are now  —  From meme creators to the Kardashians, Instagram users have been vocal this week that their feeds are too saturated with irrelevant content.