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From TVs and fitness trackers to laptops, we found great discounts on some of our favorite products ahead of the retailer’s big sales event.

One of our favorite coffee subscriptions is on sale for new subscribers through July 14.

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: SEC filing: Elon Musk notified Twitter he wants to end the merger agreement, claiming it didn’t provide him the info he requested; stock is down 6%+ after hours  —  Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf […]

It is summertime once again, which means that many of us will find ourselves with new opportunities to dive into books. The following titles represent a selection of offerings published in the past year from MIT faculty and staff. Links are provided to each book from its publisher, and the MIT Libraries has compiled a […]

When it comes to graphene, it appears that superconductivity runs in the family. Graphene is a single-atom-thin material that can be exfoliated from the same graphite that is found in pencil lead. The ultrathin material is made entirely from carbon atoms that are arranged in a simple hexagonal pattern, similar to that of chicken wire. […]

Five current graduate students and recent alumni have been awarded 2022 Hertz Fellowships in applied science, engineering, and mathematics. They are among 13 doctoral-level scholars chosen by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation who demonstrate “deep, interconnecting knowledge and the extraordinary creativity to tackle problems that others can’t solve,” according to the foundation’s announcement. This […]

What to do before, during, and after the meeting.

Contractors, who are more likely to be women of color, often aren’t eligible for employer-sponsored coverage.

Caitlin Harrington / Wired: Tech companies’ offer to help employees sidestep abortion bans does not cover gig workers, temporary workers, and subcontractors, deepening the workplace divide  —  Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care.  But their many contractors remain shut out.

Matt Berg / Politico: Secret Service Director James Murray steps down and will join Snap as chief security officer, reporting directly to Evan Spiegel  —  U.S. Secret Service Director James Murray will retire after serving in the high-ranking post for three years, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden said in a statement on […]

The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms.

This relatively lightweight escooter gets nearly everything right.

A recent study suggests that gains during the summer breeding season are making up for losses during migration. But the insects’ fate is far from assured.

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A former manager sues Celsius for fraud, saying that the crypto lender ran a Ponzi scheme by using customer deposits to rig the price of its own crypto token  —  A former investment manager at Celsius Network sued the crypto lender on Thursday, saying it used customer deposits to rig the […]

Start by recognizing that Muslims are not a single, homogenous group.

CNBC: GameStop fires CFO Mike Recupero and is laying off staff across departments; a source says chairman Ryan Cohen pushed out Recupero  —  – GameStop has fired its Chief Financial Officer, Mike Recupero.  — It’s making staff cuts across departments as part of an effort to turn around the videogame retailer.

Immanual John Milton / Bloomberg: Glassnode: bitcoin blockchain activity has dropped 13% from November 2021 to July 2022; balances at exchanges are down 20%+ from a January 20 peak  —  As the crypto winter deepens, only the staunchest Bitcoin investors are still holding onto their tokens — but not on the exchanges.

Corin Faife / The Verge: CertiK: Web3 projects lost $2B+ to hacks and exploits in H1 2022, more than all of 2021 combined; $308M was lost across 27 flash loan attacks in Q2 2022  —  A new report from CertiK flags major losses and a growing threat from flash loan attacks  —  In the first […]

Researchers have built a logic gate – a basic computing building block – that uses vibrations for information processing instead of electrons, making it very energy efficient

A cheap and easily manufactured material can act as a thermal conductor at low temperatures and an insulator at high temperatures, which may help prevent dramatic battery fires and explosions

A computer algorithm can use a technique called “ghost imaging” to reconstruct objects from a person’s brainwaves that the person themselves can’t see

Octavian-Eugen Ganea, a gifted postdoctoral artificial intelligence researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (Jameel Clinic) and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) passed away during a hike in French Polynesia on May 26. He was 34. Born and raised in Romania, Ganea joined MIT in 2019 after receiving […]

Around 4.4 billion years ago, the early solar system resembled a game of space rock dodgeball, as massive asteroids and comets, and, later, smaller rocks and galactic debris pummeled the moon and other infant terrestrial bodies. This period ended around 3.8 billion years ago. On the moon, this tumultuous time left behind a heavily cratered […]

It’s about creating a balance of grant types, categorized by operations, growth, and risk.

Six ways to get ahead of it.

Technology offers new ways of sharing information and assets, meaning managers will have to rethink their relationships with suppliers and competitors.

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Reddit launches an NFT-based avatar marketplace with 90 profile pictures available for purchase at a fixed rate, expanding on support for Ethereum-based NFTs  —  Reddit is launching a new NFT-based avatar marketplace today that allows you to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures for a fixed rate.

Known as ALPRs, this surveillance tech is pervasive across the US—and could soon be used by police and anti-abortion groups alike.

Dubious design and inefficient operations are just some of the reasons why shared scooters’ eco-credentials are thin.

The esports entertainment company can sell just about anything, but a recession may derail its business trajectory.

Dave Lee / Financial Times: A look at Amazon’s plans to crack livestream shopping, including hosting four events to attract influencers, offering generous bonuses, and more  —  Amazon has stepped up plans to crack the QVC-style livestream shopping market as the $1tn ecommerce giant aims to replicate the success …

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra is stepping back from the organization but will remain CEO of Vision Fund 1; Misra has secured $6B+ for his own fund  —  Rajeev Misra is stepping back from his main roles at SoftBank Group Corp., marking the exit of one of the key architects …

Using a novel fabrication process, MIT researchers have produced smart textiles that snugly conform to the body so they can sense the wearer’s posture and motions. By incorporating a special type of plastic yarn and using heat to slightly melt it — a process called thermoforming — the researchers were able to greatly improve the […]

If you prefer Google Assistant and the Nest ecosystem, there’s a discount here for you.

Starting with iOS 16, people who are at risk of being targeted with spyware will have some much-needed help.

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Flexe, which provides software that allows retailers to optimize their supply chains, raised a $119M Series D at a $1B+ valuation  —  The news: Flexe is the latest to join Seattle’s unicorn club.  The 9-year-old company just raised a $119 million Series D round to push its valuation past $1 […]

David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: Cybersecurity and privacy firms, many of which raised hundreds of millions, have laid off ~1,400 workers since May; OneTrust axed 950, Lacework laid off 200  —  Security startups hunker down and stockpile cash as they prepare for a bear market  —  Companies that help businesses battle hackers …

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: A look at Intel’s plan to spend €17B building a chipmaking factory in Magdeburg, Germany, and what it means to the city, which has struggled after reunification  —  This article is the fourth in an occasional series about the New Geography of Technology.

Digital tools are not always superior. Here are the good old-fashioned notebooks our team uses to keep on track.

Artificial intelligence can transfer artistic styles onto a 3D scene, including turning a bulldozer into the style of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revealed the next generation of algorithms that will keep our private data safe from snoopers

Facebook’s owner Meta has created an AI model that can translate dozens more languages than the biggest current tools, and the company also claims the results are better than those of competitors

Four research-backed strategies to help you balance going the extra mile at work and being a good partner at home.

Though they are discrete particles, water molecules flow collectively as liquids, producing streams, waves, whirlpools, and other classic fluid phenomena. Not so with electricity. While an electric current is also a construct of distinct particles — in this case, electrons — the particles are so small that any collective behavior among them is drowned out […]

The plumes of smoke that rose from East Campus one sunny May day could easily have been mistaken for a barbecue taking place in the courtyard. And indeed, burgers were on the grill. But the smoke was coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: a […]

Norman Magnuson’s MIT career — culminating in his role as manager of grounds services in the Department of Facilities for the past 20 years — started in 1974 with a summer job. Fresh out of high school and unsure of his next step, Magnuson’s father, Norman Sr., a housing manager at MIT, encouraged him to […]

Price swings signal important information to investors — and build previously unseen levels of transparency into the system.

Done well, virtual learning can be even more impactful than in-person learning.

Emily Flitter / New York Times: As crypto markets tumbled, strict US regulatory rules on risky bank assets largely insulated Wall Street from the chaos, while retail investors were hit hard  —  As cryptocurrency prices plunged and funds failed, strict rules on risky assets helped Wall Street companies sidestep the worst.

Ryan Browne / CNBC: The UK’s CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition, setting a September 1 deadline for its initial decision  —  – It marks one of the first probes by a major antitrust enforcer into the $68.7 billion deal, which was announced in January.