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The Limits to Growth argued that rampant pollution and resource extraction were pushing Earth to the brink. How does it hold up 50 years later?

Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.

Stock up with these iHealth at-home antigen tests.

Sky News: The UK’s CMA opens an investigation into whether Amazon distorts competition by favoring its own retail business and sellers using its Prime services  —  Amazon is being investigated by Britain’s antitrust watchdog over concerns that some of its practices in the UK may be anticompetitive and result in a worse deal for customers.

Receptors found on cell surfaces bind to hormones, proteins, and other molecules, helping cells respond to their environment. MIT chemists have now discovered how one of these receptors changes its shape when it binds to its target, and how those changes trigger cells to grow and proliferate. This receptor, known as epidermal growth factor receptor […]

At the age of 22, when Susan Conover wanted to get a strange-looking mole checked out, she was told it would take three months to see a dermatologist. When the mole was finally removed and biopsied, doctors determined it was cancerous. At the time, no one could be sure the cancer hadn’t spread to other […]

Cities of the future will likely be even more segregated by income, hostile to pedestrians, and designed to line the pockets of tech giants.

Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities.

The National Grid is testing computer-manned drones that can save millions in maintenance work.

Derek B. Johnson / SC Media: NIST selects four encryption algorithms designed to withstand future quantum computing hacking threats to be part of its post-quantum cryptographic standard  —  For years, the National Institute for Standards and Technology have been working on a project to identify and vet a handful …

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: The Senate Intelligence Committee asks the FTC to investigate whether TikTok misled lawmakers about China-based ByteDance employees accessing American user data  —  China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, repeatedly accessed sensitive U.S. user data …

Bloomberg: Sources: the US is lobbying the Netherlands to ban ASML from selling some of its older deep ultraviolet lithography systems to China  —  The US is pushing the Netherlands to ban ASML Holding NV from selling to China mainstream technology essential in making a large chunk of the world’s chips …

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is about to reveal the next generation of algorithms that will keep our private data safe from snoopers

The world’s third largest carbon emitter after China and the United States, India ranks seventh in a major climate risk index. Unless India, along with the nearly 200 other signatory nations of the Paris Agreement, takes aggressive action to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius relative to preindustrial levels, physical and financial losses […]

Tips for managing emotions and staying focused even when the news is terrible.

A new paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a prenatal and early child home visiting program, did not improve birth outcomes for low-income mothers in South Carolina. In the coming years, researchers will continue to evaluate other outcomes related to child health and development and the spacing […]

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With the shift towards stakeholder capitalism, companies have to redefine what success looks like — and how to achieve it.

When temperatures rise, plants mysteriously lose their ability to defend against invading pathogens—but there may be a fix.

Those using IVF can see which embryo is least likely to develop cancer and other diseases. But can protecting your child slip into playing God?

With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience.

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU lawmakers pass the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, seeking to regulate US tech giants, but enforcement could be hamstrung by limited resources  —  EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …

Financial Times: China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police data breach that exposed over 1B records; “data leak” and other terms are banned on Weibo  —  Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000

Paul MacInnes / The Guardian: FIFA will introduce semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup, using 12 cameras and a custom soccer ball to track players and make offside calls  —  – Sensor in ball will send out location data 500 times per second  — Fifa claim average decision time will fall from 70sec […]

The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by 2054

Independence Day is here, and so are the savings. We’ve rounded up plenty of sales on air purifiers, office chairs, massage guns, and more.

I texted her Joni Mitchell, she sent me songs of her own. Slowly, my daughter began to open up to me again.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Crypto lender and exchange Vauld pauses withdrawals, trading, and deposits and says it’s exploring a restructuring, after users withdrew $197.7M+ since June 12  —  Vauld, a Singapore-headquartered crypto lending and exchange startup, has suspended withdrawals, trading and deposits …

Whether you need a travel-friendly slate or something affordable for the kids, we tested every model to find the right one for everybody.

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: After a pandemic frenzy to buy laptops and other gadgets, Intel, Nvidia, Micron, and others suggest crypto mining, PC gaming, and smartphone demand is weakening  —  Intel and Nvidia are among the semiconductor makers warning of rockier times ahead after two years of surging demand

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google releases a Chrome update for Windows to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, its fourth Chrome zero-day patch in 2022  —  Google has released Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows users to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers in the wild …

DeepMind researchers have trained an AI system to find a popular policy for distributing public funds in an online game – but they also warn against “AI government”

Pioneering reparations programmes meant to address decades of US housing discrimination against Black homebuyers could get a boost from AI decision making

Three strategies to ensure yours isn’t an expensive waste of time.

Three ways to increase the chance that top talent sticks around.

With friends like these, you definitely won’t need enemies. Or the main story campaign, for that matter.

Sarah Butler / The Guardian: Amazon launches a “micromobility” hub in Hackney, London with a fleet of e-cargo bikes and on-foot delivery staff to replace thousands of van deliveries  —  Online retailer opening ‘micromobility’ hub in Hackney as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions

Powering plant growth with solar panels instead of photosynthesis could be a more efficient way of using the Sun’s energy for food. But it’s not all good news.

Jane Clinton / Guardian: The UK Army confirms its Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised on July 3 and used to promote cryptocurrency giveaway scams before being restored  —  Investigation under way after interview with Elon Musk uploaded to video channel and picture of cartoon monkey seen on Twitter

The first generation to grow up on Instagram and Snapchat is already taking stock.

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Chainalysis: NFT sales totaled just over $1B in June 2022, a 12-month low since June 2021 when sales were $648M; sales reached a peak of $12.6B in January 2022  —  Sales of non-fungible tokens totalled just over $1bn in June, compared with peak of $12.6bn in January

Zoom into peoples’ offices and living rooms with the best version of your on-camera self.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: As Apple ramped up Mac chip investments, improvements in its other chips slowed down; sources: Apple Watch Series 8 may be able to tell if users have a fever  —  When it comes to Apple’s chip advancements, the company’s iPhone and watch are taking a back seat to the Mac.

Pew Research Center: Survey: experts split on the likely evolution of an immersive metaverse by 2040, worry about the dominant platforms building it, and expect more useful AR/MR  —  Hype?  Hope?  Hell?  Maybe all three.  Experts are split about the likely evolution of a truly immersive ‘metaverse.’ They expect …

Robots will venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to find ancient water ice, while studies find hints about how water arrives on rocky worlds.

Whether you want to protect your ears or just standardize sound across apps, these tips can help.

Gareth Damian Martin sat down with WIRED to explain the “passive cruelty” of corporate culture and the game’s visceral economic fears.

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Q&A with Microsoft President Brad Smith on assistance for employees seeking abortion, labor and employment reforms, pending antitrust regulation, and more  —  Brad Smith, like many in tech and the broader world, thought 2022 might bring a bit of a break.  Halfway through, the reality has been anything but.

Megha Paul / Tech.eu: London-based Vita Mojo, which makes restaurant software for digital ordering and kitchen management, has raised $30M led by Battery Ventures  —  UK-based platform enables digital ordering in restaurants and more efficient kitchen and delivery operations through its software

Chris Gilliard / Wired: ML-powered surveillance systems will never eliminate the risk of school shootings in the US, no matter how expansive and intricate those systems become  —  The failure is not only in the spurious systems, but in the belief that more data can improve them.  —  If we are to believe the purveyors […]