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Bloomberg: EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets  —  The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement to force crypto providers to provide identifying information …

Wall Street Journal: Researchers say some businesses are exaggerating AI’s capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers’ views of AI’s power and fallibility  —  Google, Meta and OpenAI are investing heavily in the technology, which is increasingly capturing the public imagination

Kerry Emanuel once joked that whenever he retired, he would start a “hurricane safari” so other people could experience what it’s like to fly into the eye of a hurricane. “All of a sudden, the turbulence stops, the sun comes out, bright sunshine, and it’s amazingly calm. And you’re in this grand stadium [of clouds […]

Carbon monoxide is best known as a potentially deadly gas. However, in small doses it also has beneficial qualities: It has been shown to reduce inflammation and can help stimulate tissue regeneration. A team of researchers led by MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the University of Iowa, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has now […]

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Researchers from the Critical Analytics For Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have developed a new method of detecting adventitious microbial contamination in mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) cultures, ensuring the rapid and accurate testing of cell therapy products intended for use […]

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These tiny, adorable, rechargeable, and affordable synths fit in a backpack and make you sound like a modern-day A-ha.

The Galaxy A13 5G delivers excellent performance, more than a day of battery life, and class-leading software support.

What if Connect Four and The Amazing Race had a baby? WIRED spoke to Jet Lag creator Sam Denby about his new state-hopping whirlwind of a game show.

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Forbes estimates the top 16 crypto billionaires lost $59B+ between March and June, led by Binance’s CZ, as retail investors suffer heavy losses amid the rout  —  No cryptocurrency investor has been spared the pain of plunging prices.  But the fallout from more than $700 billion in losses is […]

Megha Paul / Tech.eu: UK-based Cleo, which offers an AI-powered financial assistance app aimed at Gen Z users, raised an $80M Series C led by Sofina  —  The British company, which has a US-first growth strategy, will utilise the funding to continue its growth in the U.S., including a significant increase in employee headcount

Steven Ehrlich / Forbes: After providing $750M in credit lines, Sam Bankman-Fried says some crypto companies are “too far gone” to save, “bearish views on Tether are wrong”, and more  —  After throwing lifelines to troubled digital currency platforms BlockFi and Voyager Digital, Sam Bankman-Fried …

Sound waves have been used to build complex structures in mid-air out of floating components and droplets of glue, showing the approach may have engineering and medical applications

For humans, finding a lost wallet buried under a pile of items is pretty straightforward — we simply remove things from the pile until we find the wallet. But for a robot, this task involves complex reasoning about the pile and objects in it, which presents a steep challenge. MIT researchers previously demonstrated a robotic […]

These over-ear active noise-canceling headphones are here to take on the mighty Sony XM5s. And that’s exactly what they do.

Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb says crypto investor Roger Ver owes CoinFLEX $47M in USDC, after Ver denied “some rumors” he defaulted on a debt to a counterparty  —  The crypto exchange is launching a recovery token because of debt owed by a high-net-worth customer.

A German ad-tech trial features what Vodafone calls “digital tokens.” Should you be worried?

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Samsung Display acquires Germany-based OLED startup Cynora, which specialized in displays for foldable devices, for about $300M for its IP and tech  —  Samsung Display Co. has purchased display company Cynora GmbH for about $300 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter …

The company tapped digital design to turn its latest sedan into a sleek performance ride.

A partially paralysed man who had been unable to use his fingers for about 30 years fed himself dessert using his mind and some smart robotic hands

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces Google Public Sector, a new division aiming to bring Google Cloud tech to US educational institutions and federal, state, and local governments  —  Google today is home to two divisions that have their own CEOs: Cloud and YouTube.  “Google Public Sector” was announced today as a …

Members of the public sector, private sector, and academia convened for the second AI Policy Forum Symposium last month to explore critical directions and questions posed by artificial intelligence in our economies and societies. The virtual event, hosted by the AI Policy Forum (AIPF) — an undertaking by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to […]

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Can fintech startup Esusu use innovation to promote financial inclusion in America?

A conversation about how Haier Group capitalizes on the resources and expertise of its ecosystem.

Reuters: A Moscow court fines Twitch, Pinterest, Airbnb, and UPS for refusing to store Russian citizens’ personal data in Russia  —  A Moscow court said it had fined video streaming service Twitch, social network Pinterestand United Parcel Service in three of several cases expected on Tuesday …

Machines that understand what their human teammates are doing could boost productivity without taking jobs.

A battle royale called the SMART program has charged teams with a daunting first task: Identify construction sites on Earth using only data from orbiters.

Zeng Yuqun is China’s most prolific battery billionaire. His ascent has major implications for a world increasingly reliant on electric vehicles.

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: Long-Term Stock Exchange, a Silicon Valley-based rival to the NYSE, raised $100M from James Walton, part of the Walmart family, and The Space Between  —  Silicon Valley’s Long-Term Stock Exchange gets a check from James Walton, who partnered with a venture fund

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: FrontApp, which offers the Front customer communications tool, raised $65M led by Salesforce and Battery at a $1.7B post-money valuation, up from $859M in 2020  —  Customer communication software maker FrontApp Inc. is now valued at $1.7 billion after receiving $65 million in financing led by Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures.

There’s an abandoned coal power plant in upstate New York that most people regard as a useless relic. But MIT’s Paul Woskov sees things differently. Woskov, a research engineer in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, notes the plant’s power turbine is still intact and the transmission lines still run to the grid. Using an […]

Wilfried Eckl-Dorna / Bloomberg: Siemens plans to buy Brightly, a North Carolina-based provider of buildings and infrastructure management software, from Clearlake Capital for $1.58B  —  Siemens AG will buy US firm Brightly Software for $1.58 billion to add digital services for buildings and infrastructure as the German company continues …

FOSTA/SESTA laws deplatformed sex workers and set the stage to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Olivia Snow / Wired: How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018  —  FOSTA/SESTA—laws that deplatformed sex workers—helped build the gallows for overturning Roe v. Wade.

Allison Johnson / The Verge: T-Mobile launched App Insights, letting marketers target its wireless customers based on apps they have installed and engagement patterns; users can opt out  —  T-Mobile’s advertising business is offering a new way for marketers to pry into your app-using habits.

Virtual robot run by artificial intelligence acts in a way that conforms to toxic stereotypes when asked to pick faces that belong to criminals or homemakers

For decades, government and industry have looked to hydrogen as a potentially game-changing tool in the quest for clean energy. As far back as the early days of the Clinton administration, energy sector observers and public policy experts have extolled the virtues of hydrogen — to the point that some people have joked that hydrogen […]

After 13 years as director of the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Ed Boyle, professor of ocean geochemistry in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), is stepping down at the end of June. Professor Mick Follows, who holds joint appointments in EAPS and […]

The human liver has amazing regeneration capabilities: Even if up to 70 percent of it is removed, the remaining tissue can regrow a full-sized liver within months. Taking advantage of this regenerative capability could give doctors many more options for treating chronic liver disease. MIT engineers have now taken a step toward that goal, by […]

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A young leader learns how to gain credibility and trust in her new role.

The viral image generation app is good, absurd fun. It’s also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality.

Gadget manufacturers are getting into the car-making business. That could shake up the auto industry, global trade, and geopolitics.

Bloomberg: Naspers subsidiary Prosus sold 131.8M shares in JD.com, a ~4% stake worth $4B+, saying the e-commerce company “does not form part of [its] core strategic focus”  —  An arm of South African internet giant Naspers Ltd. sold almost $4 billion worth of stock in JD.com Inc. that it got …

From acoustic tweezers to holograms, engineers are taking inspiration from the field of optics—and riding the sound wave.

Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr: Indian startup Solv, a B2B marketplace for SMBs, raised a $40M Series A led by Japan-based SBI Holdings, bringing its total funding to nearly $80M  —  Solv, a B2B digital marketplace for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, has raised $40 million in its Series A funding round led …