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As climate change deals a blow to coastal habitats, coho salmon are disappearing from California’s Russian River. Can conservation hatcheries save them?

TikTok played an integral role in his defamation trial—now Depp himself has joined the cacophony of memes.

Amazon has six ebook readers. Here’s how they stack up—and which one might be right for you.

Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: An interview with Apple’s Craig Federighi and VP of Design Alan Dye on the new features in iOS 16 for customizing lock screens  —  Your iPhone’s Lock Screen is the first thing you see when you pick up your phone.  It’s also the face you present to the world and those […]

Politico: Elon Musk’s Starlink has become an unexpected lifeline in Ukraine, on the battlefield and in the war for public opinion, impressing many Western militaries  —  UkraineX:  —  How Elon Musk’s space satellites changed the war on the ground  —  From artillery strikes to Zoom calls,

Casey Newton / The Verge: A week with Dall-E 2, OpenAI’s text-to-image AI tool that is in private research beta and feels like a breakthrough in the history of consumer tech  —  I remember the first time I Shazam’d a song, summoned an Uber, and streamed myself live using Meerkat.  What makes these moments stand […]

Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: AT&T says it is the first operator in the world to achieve 20 Gbps download and upload speeds with a production fiber network  —  Back in January, AT&T launched impressive speeds up to 5 Gbps with its fiber internet service in over 70 US cities.  Now AT&T fiber is out with […]

The House committee’s televised hearings interrogate the Capitol attack with damning new evidence. Whether it’s enough to prevent another one is uncertain.

The three-part adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel doesn’t quite hold up, but it’s still fascinating to watch.

Twitter has reportedly given the billionaire access to its full stream of tweets and related user data. Is your privacy in jeopardy?

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has bought a quantum computer that doesn’t require bulky cooling equipment, meaning it could one day be installed on military hardware such as tanks

Michael McSweeney / The Block: Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin venture TBD plans to launch a “Web 5” platform, using the Ion network, focused on decentralized identity and data storage for applications  —  TBD, the Bitcoin-focused venture first announced last spring, unveiled an ambitious effort Friday to build a decentralized Web platform dubbed “Web 5.”

Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: Daniel Ek says Spotify’s upcoming audiobooks vertical will adopt the freemium model; Spotify’s acquisition of audiobook distributor Findaway is under DOJ review  —  This story is part of a group of stories called  —  This article first ran in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge’s audio industry newsletter.

William Shakespeare might have been talking about Apple’s recently released M1 chip via his prose in “A Midnight Summer’s Dream”: “And though she be but little, she is fierce.” The company’s software runs on the little squares made of custom silicon systems, resulting in Apple’s most powerful chip to date, with industry-leading power efficiency. Yet […]

Virtual humans are gaining popularity on social media, with some amassing millions of young followers. But what psychological impact are they having?

The biggest liability could be how policymakers respond in the next few months.

Strategies for leaders to align all three.

WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on the virtues of sharing a streaming profile and screwing with algorithms.

The video game combines couch co-op bonding with the joy of watching horror films with friends.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: some US news outlets prepare for shortfalls as Meta weighs ending fees for news; annual fees averaged $20M+ for NYT, $15M+ for WaPo, and $10M+ for WSJ  —  Social-media company pays more than $10 million a year to a handful of news organizations to feature their content on its news tab

It’s the company’s first in this product category, and it’s one of the best we’ve tested.

For many of us, the pandemic sparked pivotal changes. And Magdelena S. Allen was no exception. Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Allen wanted to learn about everything. She loved stargazing and the physical sciences, but she was also interested in law and writing. Her parents, who homeschooled her and her sister until high school, were […]

Alex Heath / The Verge: Source: Meta will distribute the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, exclusively to developers, helping them build software for future devices  —  It’s also canceling a planned smartwatch with two cameras  —  Meta has decided to not sell the first version of its full-fledged AR glasses …

Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: After delivery startup Gorillas raised $1B in October, sources say it is drastically cutting costs, reducing staff benefits, and considering closing warehouses  —  After Germany’s rapid food delivery startup Gorillas Technologies GmbH closed a $1 billion funding round last October …

The high concentration of wealth and privilege in the field deprives it of essential perspective on issues such as inequality, unemployment, and inflation.

It’s no longer enough to keep your board happy and appease shareholders.

If you keep changing it, did you even have one to begin with?

But at least it’s a remake of The Last of Us Part 1.

A researcher found that a recent update lets anyone enroll their own key during the 130-second interval after the car is unlocked with an NFC card.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $588.7M, vs. $581.8M est., and a $27.4M net loss, up from $8.4M YoY, as the company moderates hiring; stock drops 20%+  —  – DocuSign delivered 25% revenue growth from a year earlier but investors are increasingly concerned with profitability.

Founded by ex-Blizzard devs, the new studio’s first foray is a real-time strategy game that focuses on fun and ’90s vibes.

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z launch The Bitcoin Academy, giving free financial education classes on Bitcoin at the Brooklyn public housing complex where Jay-Z grew up  —  Is billionaire-funded crypto education really what low-income people need?  —  Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey …

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: AMD updates its Zen architecture roadmap, including Zen 4 improvements in 2022 and Zen 5 in 2024 with a mix of 4nm and 3nm processes and AI and ML optimizations  —  Today is AMD’s Financial Analyst Day, the company’s semi-annual, analyst-focused gathering.  While the primary purpose …

Not only do quantum computers have the edge over classical computers on some tasks, but they are also exponentially faster, according to a new mathematical proof

The way we can tweak interactions between qubits in quantum computers means the machines could help us create novel structures with weird properties we have never seen in nature

The Human Genome Project was an ambitious initiative to sequence every piece of human DNA. The project drew together collaborators from research institutions around the world, including MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and was finally completed in 2003. Now, over two decades later, MIT Professor Jonathan Weissman and colleagues have gone beyond the sequence […]

From their early days at MIT, and even before, Emma Liu ’22, MNG ’22, Yo-whan “John” Kim ’22, MNG ’22, and Clemente Ocejo ’21, MNG ’22 knew they wanted to perform computational research and explore artificial intelligence and machine learning. “Since high school, I’ve been into deep learning and was involved in projects,” says Kim, […]

Sheena Vasani / The Verge: Browser maker Vivaldi releases a built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi Calendar and RSS integrations  —  It’s available to use starting today  —  Vivaldi has launched its own free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi’s Calendar and Feed Reader integrated.

WatchOS 9’s new running-focused features might make the Apple Watch the most comprehensive fitness tracker you can buy.

Therapy doesn’t work without understanding, and the “extremely online” deserve to have their experiences taken seriously.

This week, we run down all of the announcements from the developer conference, which two of us got to witness in the flesh. Kinda.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Shield AI, which makes software and hardware for military drones and other autonomous aircraft, raises a $90M Series E and $75M in debt at a $2.3B valuation  —  Technology built with defense in mind is getting some significant and serious traction at the moment, spurred by world events …

Cade Metz / New York Times: Experts say the lack of publicly available data makes it difficult to verify claims by Tesla and others about the safety of their autonomous driving tech  —  Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult.

Malicious agents can use machine learning to launch powerful attacks that steal information in ways that are tough to prevent and often even more difficult to study. Attackers can capture data that “leaks” between software programs running on the same computer. They then use machine-learning algorithms to decode those signals, which enables them to obtain […]

FDA advisers overwhelmingly endorsed the vaccine, which Novavax hopes will sway holdouts to finally get their shots.

Internet giant Baidu has built an empire around search and artificial intelligence. Can it build a smarter car?

Using a custom encryption scheme within music notation, Merryl Goldberg and three other US musicians slipped information to Soviet performers and activists known as the Phantom Orchestra.

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: The Block: weekly NFT sales declined by just over 70% from a high of nearly 1M units in the third week of 2022 to 250K+ at the end of May 2022  —  The consumer trading boom has deflated, pushing unicorns and recently public companies alike into defensive modes.

Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta’s head of infrastructure David Mortenson steps down; engineering and infrastructure VP Santosh Janardhan, his direct report, will take over later in June  —  The change comes days after the announced departure of Sheryl Sandberg  —  Another executive change is hitting Meta …

Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Unsealed docs show how the US ordered travel firms Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, giving the Secret Service weekly reports  —  A Forbes legal challenge forces the unsealing of documents that reveal for the first time the scope of secretive surveillance orders …