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Reuters: Yandex says it has made YaLM 100B, its language model for AI research, publicly available, and claims it contains 100B parameters  —  Russian technology company Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Thursday it had made a large language model for artificial intelligence research open to the public …

Jessica Lucas / Input: A look at r/LossPrevention, a subreddit for busting shoplifters; members monitor Reddit’s pro-shoplifting community and share videos of people being apprehended  —  Alex McLeod is an adrenaline junkie.  The 24-year-old, who lives in Ontario, Canada, is an avid martial artist with plans to sign up for a professional fighting league.

Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: Report: video game revenue in China fell for a third consecutive month in May 2022, down 6.7% YoY to $3.4B, amid a slowing economy and regulatory uncertainties  —  China’s video gaming revenue fell 6.7 per cent to US$3.4 billion in May, driven mostly by a decline in mobile […]

An analysis of 120 of the world’s top-ranked English-language websites has found that many of them allow weak passwords, including those that can be easily guessed, such as “abc123456” and “P@$$w0rd”

Little robots shaped like staples called “smarticles” can’t move around on their own, but researchers have now found that they can randomly form structures with other robots to move about

The inner child in many of us feels an overwhelming sense of joy when stumbling across a pile of the fluorescent, rubbery mixture of water, salt, and flour that put goo on the map: play dough. (Even if this happens rarely in adulthood.) While manipulating play dough is fun and easy for 2-year-olds, the shapeless […]

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MIT Professor Donald Sadoway has won the 2022 European Inventor Award, in the category for Non-European Patent Office Countries, for his work on liquid metal batteries that could enable the long-term storage of renewable energy. Sadoway is the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and a […]

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In the pandemic’s early days, government-backed public health apps acquired millions of users—a ready-made audience developers are eager to tap.

Bloomberg: Seeking to regain relevance, screenshots show Clubhouse is testing private rooms, called Houses, to encourage friendlier social interactions  —  Clubhouse, the voice chat app that captured the attention of Hollywood and Silicon Valley early in the pandemic, is experimenting with a new feature that lets users join private groups.

The social media giant banned networks of fake accounts for promoting disinformation, spam, or propaganda—and kept the money it made from ads.

After months of digging into privacy and security issues around these apps, I have some serious concerns.

Wall Street Journal: An in-depth look at the LUNA and UST fallout, as Do Kwon says he has been “devastated” but has “great confidence in our ability to build back even stronger”  —  Luna’s relaunch might be the ultimate act of chutzpah by the South Korean entrepreneur

New York Times: Sources: the metaverse, not securing elections, is now Mark Zuckerberg’s top priority; Meta has ~60 people focused on elections, down from 300 in 2020  —  Mark Zuckerberg, who once said securing elections was “the most important thing,” has shifted Meta’s focus to the metaverse.

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: MasterClass, which offers celebrity-taught online classes, laid off around 120 employees, or 20% of its team; sources: MasterClass was valued at $2.75B in 2021  —  MasterClass, an education platform that sells subscriptions to celebrity-taught classes, has cut 20% of its team to …

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The privacy-focused company’s new Goggles tool allows users to weed out the noise—whatever that might mean.

Hesitancy, bureaucracy, inequity, and the need to explain new formulas could slow down vaccine delivery to the last unprotected group.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Courier, which provides tools to send and build notifications across multiple channels including email, web, text, and mobile, raised a $35M Series B led by GV  —  App notifications, well intentioned or no, have become a part of daily life.  A 2018 study out of Duke University estimated that …

Jared Newman / Fast Company: Valve’s Steam Deck, which runs Arch Linux and lets users install software from anywhere unlike other game consoles, makes a great case against walled gardens  —  The Steam Deck is a portable gaming system that breaks the biggest rule of gaming systems.  —  Unlike practically every major …

Artificial intelligence that creates realistic three-dimensional images could be run on a laptop and make it faster and easier to create animated films

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In the final 2022 Division III LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup standings, MIT finished in fourth place overall as the Engineers ended the 2021-22 academic year with 936.75 points. This marks the second-highest finish in MIT history as the Engineers climbed two spots following a tremendous performance in the spring season. Fall highlights Men’s cross country finished […]

It would seem that engineering is in Ritu Raman’s blood. Her mother is a chemical engineer, her father is a mechanical engineer, and her grandfather is a civil engineer. A common thread among her childhood experiences was witnessing firsthand the beneficial impact that engineering careers could have on communities. One of her earliest memories is […]

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Google redesigns News, elevating local news and fact checks, and relaunches the service in Spain after eight years, following Spain adopting EU copyright rules  —  Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced …

Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg: Hired: despite D&I initiatives, female African American tech workers earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020  —  As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen …

Even though they may seem more modest than our fictions imagined, creatures like the boar and the rabbit have become the real Godzillas.

The legal challenges are steep, but scientists are recording the war’s devastating impact on Ukraine’s land and wildlife.

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Tom Matsuda / The Block: Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe plans to go public via SPAC on the Nasdaq, valuing it at $3.6B  —  – Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC called Goldenstone Acquisition.  — The company says it will be valued at $3.6 billion […]

For Erin Walk, who has loved school since she was a little girl, pursuing a graduate degree always seemed like a given. As a mechanical engineering major at Harvard University with a minor in government, she figured that going to graduate school in engineering would be the next logical step. However, during her senior year, […]

Artificial intelligence use is booming, but it’s not the secret weapon you might imagine.

After three aborted attempts, engineers successfully completed a practice countdown that included filling the tanks with liquid oxygen and hydrogen.

Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: An analysis of how Apple’s approach to ATT is anti-competitive and harms legitimate targeted ad businesses integral to the new internet economy  —  Note: I’ve covered everything in this Article across a number of other Articles and Updates; however, over the course of conversations about ATT …

Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: UK-based CloudNC, which seeks to automate manufacturing using AI, has raised a $45M Series B led by Autodesk, with Lockheed Martin and others participating  —  UK startup CloudNC has clinched the backing of two large US firms, software company Autodesk Inc. and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp., in a fresh funding […]

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Munich-based Personio, maker of cloud-based HR and recruiting software for SMBs, has raised a $200M Series E extension at a $8.5B valuation  —  Personio — a startup out of Munich, Germany that styles itself as a Workday and ServiceNow focused on the small and medium businesses of the world …

Hyper-realistic virtual worlds have been heralded as the best driving schools for autonomous vehicles (AVs), since they’ve proven fruitful test beds for safely trying out dangerous driving scenarios. Tesla, Waymo, and other self-driving companies all rely heavily on data to enable expensive and proprietary photorealistic simulators, since testing and gathering nuanced I-almost-crashed data usually isn’t […]

Quantum sensors, which detect the most minute variations in magnetic or electrical fields, have enabled precision measurements in materials science and fundamental physics. But these sensors have only been capable of detecting a few specific frequencies of these fields, limiting their usefulness. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a method to enable such sensors to […]

Bruce Willis’s recent announcement that he was retiring from acting brought widespread public attention to the neurological condition aphasia. While everyone struggles occasionally with finding the right word or tripping over their sentences, aphasia patients can lose the ability to comprehend language entirely. Though Willis hasn’t confirmed it, some doctors suspect that he may have […]

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Singapore-based neobank Stashfin, available in India, raised a $270M Series C, with $70M equity and $200M debt, at a $700M-$800M valuation to expand in Asia  —  Singapore-based Stashfin has raised $270 million in a new funding round as the neobanking platform, which currently only serves customers in India …