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If you can handle minor blemishes on otherwise high-quality cookware, these deals are worth perusing. Discounts flame out on June 14.

Katie Jennings / Forbes: Vendors allege Hippocratic AI co-founder’s former startup Health IQ, which faces a fraud lawsuit, owes millions; Hippocratic AI raised $50M from a16z and others  —  The venture firm made a repeat investment in Munjal Shah, but his previous company Health IQ is facing allegations of millions …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Boston-based CloudZero, a cloud cost management startup, raised a $32M Series B led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures, taking its total raised to $52M+  —  CloudZero, a cloud cost management startup, today announced that it raised $32 million in a Series B funding round led by Innovius Capital and Threshold […]

Now in its 22nd year, the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public Service Center’s IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge has prepared over 200 student-led teams to utilize innovation for social good. In addition to providing over $1.1 million in funding, the PKG Center has enlisted diverse partners to mentor teams in refining and implementing their ideas. […]

Nestled within the Tuul River valley and embraced by the southern Khentii Mountain Range, Ulaanbaatar (UB), Mongolia’s largest city, presents itself as an arena where nature’s forces wage an unrelenting battle against human resilience. The capital city is an icy crucible, with bone-chilling winters that plummet temperatures to an astonishing -40 degrees Fahrenheit (-40 degrees […]

For the past two and a half years, graduate student Tong Zhang has been figuring out how bacteria protect themselves against phages — the viruses that infect them. All the while, doing so as a student far from her hometown of Beijing, China. Phages and bacteria are in a constant arms race, which those in […]

The three most common mistakes managers make when delivering feedback — and how to respond.

Addressing tension, instead of shying away from it, is often the kind thing to do.

OpenAI used a simple form of human feedback.

More research is showing that moths are secret, critical pollinators, even of crops that feed humanity. Save the bees, but save the moths too.

Matt Burgess / Wired: Documents detail new prison-monitoring tech, tracking inmates’ location, heartbeats, and more, developed by Talitrix and used in Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail  —  Documents WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates’ location, heartbeats, and more.

Two researchers whose work led to the development of Wegovy and Ozempic spoke to WIRED about the creation of these drugs and how they should be used.

Garmin’s update to one of our favorite solar-powered cycling computers puts all the ride and fitness stats you’d ever want to see on your handlebars.

Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal: Sources: a US official said the government plans to let chipmakers in South Korea and Taiwan maintain and expand their China-based facilities without reprisals  —  Analysts say the move will weaken export-control measures aimed at curbing Beijing  —  WASHINGTON—The Biden administration plans …

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Nasdaq plans to acquire financial software maker Adenza for $10.5B in cash and stock; Adenza owner Thoma Bravo gets a 14.9% stake in Nasdaq as part of the deal  —  Nasdaq Inc. has agreed to buy financial-software maker Adenza from its private equity owners in the exchange operator’s biggest-ever deal.

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In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission — to fly their jets deep into a rocky canyon, staying so low to the ground they cannot be detected by radar, then rapidly climb out of the canyon at an extreme […]

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots with one of these WIRED-tested mesh systems.

From Hypnospace Outlaw to Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Microsoft’s subscription service includes a bounty of fun games for console and PC.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft will bring select games on PC Game Pass to Nvidia’s GeForce Now in the coming months, letting subs stream games with RTX 4080 levels of performance  —  Microsoft is planning to bring PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service.  Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator experience […]

Dan Primack / Axios: a16z to open a crypto-focused London office and is leading a $44M investment in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI  —  America’s largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry’s future may be across the pond, and is opening …

What are you playing next? From Humanity to Riders Republic, Sony’s subscription service has so many great options for your PS5.

Sarah Kessler / New York Times: Researchers of tech change and employment disagree on how many jobs AI will affect; one tricky factor is primarily tasks, not occupations, are being automated  —  The tally of how many jobs will be “affected by” world-changing technology is different depending on who you ask.

A vegetable-growing trial has pitted expert human gardeners against an AI-powered robot – both produced comparable crops, but the robot used about 40 per cent less water

We grilled, smoked, baked, cleaned, and repeated to find the best option for every home.

Kirsten Grieshaber / Associated Press: A University of Vienna philosopher used ChatGPT to create a 40-minute church service, including the sermon, prayers, and music, led by four AI-generated avatars  —  The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews […]

Give your favorite guy a treat that’ll make his whole year with these boozy, outdoorsy, techy ideas.

By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly—and efficiently—than before.

Washington Post: Verizon report: median amount lost from business email compromise is $50K in recent years and median ransomware damage doubled to $26K over the last two years  —  A smorgasbord of data in Verizon’s annual breach report  —  When a vulnerability in the ubiquitous open-source tool log4j …

Natasha Singer / New York Times: While US schools debate what to teach students about AI’s promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums  —  While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons.

Experiments often yield unexpected results. In research and in life, MIT Associate Professor Cem Tasan has learned to embrace that uncertainty. “Very often we start with an idea or a hypothesis, and to test that idea we design experiments, and when we run the experiments, we see something totally different,” says Tasan, the newly tenured […]

The perfect kitchen companion, these versatile blenders can whip up breakfast, dinner party dips, and everything in between.

We tried blow-dryers, brushes, and a machine that sucks up your locks like a vacuum. These are our top tools to dry your ‘do.

Plus: Amazon Prime might roll out an ad-based tier, AI-powered ads land on LinkedIn, and there’s even more talk about face computers.

Bloomberg: As major US banks abandon crypto companies during an expanding crackdown, a look at the emergence of smaller regional US lenders and Swiss, Asian, and UK firms  —  Two months after the collapse of Silvergate Capital Corp. and Signature Bank, a new banking landscape for crypto companies …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: In a test, researchers find that 90%+ of 1,008 jokes generated by GPT-3.5 were not new but rather the same 25 jokes likely learned during the model’s training  —  When tested, “Over 90% of 1,008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes.”  —  On Wednesday, two German researchers …

Platformer: Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether  —  Musk won’t pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company’s trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance

Make the most of your future weekends with these discounted gadgets.

Scientists are uncovering previously unknown species preserved in museum and botanical garden collections, only to find that they no longer exist in the wild.

Do you struggle to nod off or stay asleep through the night? These WIRED-tested tools can help.

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A look at Realtek’s lawsuit accusing MediaTek of paying a company a “bounty” to file meritless US patent lawsuits to drive Realtek out of the TV chip market  —  Lawsuit: Patent trolls created “harmful illusion” of unstable TV-chip market.  —  [Update, 8:10 pm ET …

Bloomberg: A comparison between US data and 5,100 Stable Diffusion-generated images related to job title and crime finds the tool amplifies gender and racial stereotypes  —  Heather Hiles, chair of Black Girls Code  —  At Canva, whose visual communication platform has 125 million active users …

An analysis of over 800 hours of footage from busy pedestrian areas in Japan found that pairs of people that share stronger social bonds are less likely to physically bump into other people walking

Wall Street Journal: An interview with Gary Gensler after the SEC’s Binance and Coinbase lawsuits, which have existential stakes for the companies and could define Gensler’s legacy  —  Agency chair focuses enforcement power on exchanges after earlier failures to subdue industry  —  WASHINGTON—Gary Gensler had seen enough.

From The Trial of the Chicago 7 to The Boys in the Band, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

Emma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft adds voice mode to Bing Chat on desktop, letting users ask questions using their voice in English, Japanese, French, German, and Mandarin  —  Microsoft is bringing Bing’s voice mode to Edge on desktop.  With this latest update, you can now ask Bing’s chatbot questions using your voice …

Deals to let GM and Ford EV owners use Tesla charging points show the EV maker turning its giant Supercharger network into a competitive advantage.

From Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story to Black Knight, these are our picks for the best streaming titles to binge this week.

Karissa Bell / Engadget: In an AMA about Reddit’s API changes, the company’s CEO said Reddit can’t “subsidize commercial entities”, criticized the Apollo developer’s behavior, and more  —  “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,” he said.  —  Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has finally spoken publicly …

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Kraken launches Kraken NFT, a marketplace with 250+ NFT collections across the Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon blockchains, after a beta started in November 2022  —  Now out of its public beta test, the platform has expanded to include over 250 NFT collections.