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Four questions hiring managers need to ask themselves.

Offer more comprehensive health insurance, provide paid parental leave, and redesign the workplace.

This week, we think of ways to fix the anxiety-inducing mess known as mobile messaging.

Brenda Goh / Reuters: Amazon plans to stop supplying Chinese retailers with Kindles, will close the e-bookstore in China on June 30, 2023, and remove the Kindle app in 2024  —  Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said it will stop supplying retailers in China with its Kindle e-readers from Thursday and will shut its Kindle e-bookstore …

ROG’s slim tablet and keyboard combo is (mostly) a success, but its high price may put you off.

A new generation of reactors promises a nuclear energy renaissance, but critics say the US needs to figure out what to do about its radioactive garbage first.

Arun Padmanabhan / The Economic Times: ExpressVPN says it is pulling its servers out of India, citing the impossibility of complying with an upcoming mandate to record users’ names and activities  —  New Delhi: Virtual private network (VPN) operator ExpressVPN is pulling its servers out of India, citing the impossibility of complying …

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Sheryl Sandberg’s departure comes as Meta faces a challenging post-ATT ad market, a drastic pivot to the metaverse, and increasing EU scrutiny  —  Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Meta Platforms Inc., is resigning after 14 years of running the company alongside Mark Zuckerberg.

In the quiet hall outside of Hayden Library, Zoe Levitt’s soft, musical voice fills the room. The acoustics are perfect for amplifying her words and her innate passion for geology. Or, more specifically, paleomagnetism — using magnetism to study the geological history of the Earth — which is the focus of her senior thesis. “The […]

Alexander Martin / Sky News: US Cyber Command head Paul Nakasone confirms that US military hackers have carried out cyberattacks in support of Ukraine in response to Russia’s invasion  —  In an exclusive interview with Sky News, General Paul Nakasone confirmed for the first time that the US had “conducted a series of operations” …

Mobile games are designed to hook you, and I’ve fallen for it.

Raven Software’s vote to unionize its QA team is historic, but getting Activision Blizzard to actually listen will require a lot more work.

The guitarist’s music spread in his native Niger thanks to fans sharing it phone to phone.

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Oracle receives all regulatory clearances needed for its $28.3B acquisition of digital medical records company Cerner; the deal is expected to close on June 6  —  Oracle Corp. said it has received all regulatory clearances needed to complete its $28.3 billion purchase of digital medical …

Inti Pacheco / Wall Street Journal: Analysis of S&P 500 companies: Alphabet and Meta had the highest median pay for workers in 2021 at nearly $300K; Apple’s median pay was ~$68K, Amazon’s ~$32K  —  With a booming economy and a tight job market, median pay rose last year for most S&P 500 companies, according to […]

A computer capable of achieving quantum advantage – a demonstration of supremacy over conventional machines – is the first that anyone can use over the internet

The first annual Day of AI on Friday, May 13 introduced artificial intelligence literacy to classrooms all over the world. An initiative of MIT Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE), Day of AI is an opportunity for teachers to introduce K-12 students of all backgrounds to artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in […]

On a chilly Monday in May, MIT’s Killian Court was transformed into a festival of fun. Over 1,200 members of the community enjoyed hot dogs, fried dough, and bouncy castles before cozying up on picnic blankets to watch the main event. First-year students took to the stage to perform skits — or “PLAYsentations” — demonstrating […]

Despite its below-freezing temperatures, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. As Arctic sea ice melts, fewer bright surfaces are available to reflect sunlight back into space. When fractures open in the ice cover, the water underneath gets exposed. Dark, ice-free water absorbs the sun’s energy, heating the ocean […]

Using nature to heal nature: one company’s journey to commercialize bacteria that can recycle carbon dioxide.

Two years into the pandemic, she was itching to change up her lifestyle.

Virtual tools allow for learning to be integrated into executives’ daily work.

Graphic images have long been tools of campaigns against smoking and STDs. Researchers want to know if can they work for infectious diseases like Covid.

The internet’s fandom-generating culture creates fantasies of the powerful that imprison us in their delusions.

Lauren Goode / Wired: Messaging apps should consider reviving AIM’s Away Message to create better social boundaries around people’s time, as people treat the apps like live chats  —  The live chats of the past are now in our pockets and inescapable.  We need better boundaries.  —  In the beginning, there was AOL Instant Messenger.

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: Ofcom survey of 6,600+ UK adults: women are more likely than men to face abuse or harmful content online; 42% of women felt comfortable speaking freely online  —  The head of media regulator Ofcom says tech firms must do more to protect women online, after its report revealed they were more […]

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based Coralogix, which offers real-time insights for logs, metrics, and security data, raises a $142M Series D, bringing its total funding to $238M  —  We’ve long documented the challenges that DevOps and operations teams in specific areas like security face these days when it comes …

Apps and sensor-laden gadgets are helping farmers shift from the fields to indoor food-growing operations. But these innovations still don’t make it easy.

The Omni-Roach robot moves like a cockroach to scale bumps, dodge pillars and wobble through bendy bars, and may become a Mars explorer in the future

When the stakes are high, machine-learning models are sometimes used to aid human decision-makers. For instance, a model could predict which law school applicants are most likely to pass the bar exam to help an admissions officer determine which students should be accepted. These models often have millions of parameters, so how they make predictions […]

Start by diagnosing the source of the problem.

If you go mega-vi, there are ways to make money off of your content. But be warned: It relies on going viral often, and consistently.

The live chats of the past are now in our pockets and inescapable. We need better boundaries.

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: the FTC has revamped its Amazon antitrust probe, shaking up the investigative team, re-interviewing potential witnesses, and asking about the MGM deal  —  The US Federal Trade Commission has revamped its antitrust probe of Amazon.com Inc., shaking up the investigative team …

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Law: SCOTUS blocks Texas’ social media content moderation law in a 5-4 vote, putting the measure on hold while a constitutional challenge proceeds in a lower court  —  The US Supreme Court blocked a Texas law that critics say would fundamentally transform Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok is testing a “clear mode” feature that removes usernames, captions, audio information, and more for a distraction-free scrolling experience  —  TikTok is testing a new feature that would allow for a distraction-free scrolling experience on the app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.

On Saturday, poet Kealoha Wong ’99 delivered the address at a special Commencement ceremony for the classes of 2020 and 2021, asking the graduates to look both outward and inward. He urged them to widen their perspective on life and recognize the enormity of human history and our natural world, but also to look into […]

Last year, researchers at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research discovered and characterized Cas7-11, the first CRISPR enzyme capable of making precise, guided cuts to strands of RNA without harming cells in the process. Now, working with collaborators at the University of Tokyo, the same team has revealed that Cas7-11 can be shrunk to a […]

Researchers from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have identified a critical quality attribute (CQA) that potentially allows the development of a rapid and sensitive process analytical technology for sterility. Specifically, this technology enables the detection of early-stage microbial contamination in human cell therapy products (CTPs). Cell therapy […]

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Iconic entrepreneurs discuss their experiences with corruption in emerging markets, and how corruption can be reduced.

Platin’s tiny, wireless surround sound system effortlessly outperforms your basic soundbar setup, without making you drill into your walls.

While the feature makes spoken exchanges more clear, having to keep your AirPods in your ears during in-person chats sends the wrong social message.

Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia: Samsung Electronics says Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong met with Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger to discuss collaborating on semiconductors  —  SEOUL — Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong has met with Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger to discuss how to work together …

Electricity costs more, Bitcoin is worth less. What can possibly go wrong?

Frontier, a supercomputer built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the first capable of an exaflop – a billion billion operations per second

David Heaney / UploadVR: Kuo: Sony will begin mass producing its PSVR 2 headset in H2 2022 ahead of a possible launch in Q1 2023, depending on the state of flagship game titles  —  A prominent supply chain analyst claims PSVR 2 mass production will begin in H2 2022.  —  Ming-Chi Kuo is a TF […]

Anna Gross / Financial Times: BT partners with Ericsson to offer private 5G networks to companies in the UK, the first service of its kind  —  Telecoms groups have invested heavily in new technology and say it can help industry become more efficient  —  BT has joined forces with Swedish telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson …

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