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The incident, which cost first responders valuable time, underscores the challenges that Cruise and other companies face on the road to driverless taxis.

Agne Cimermanaite / Metaverse Post: Jadu, which is developing an AR game built around virtual objects owned by players in a metaverse, raises $36M led by Bain Capital Crypto  —  Jadu Mirrorverse — an AR game built around virtual objects owned by the players — just raised $36M to help create the Web3 “definitive AR […]

Jez Corden / Windows Central: Microsoft confirms it is developing an HDMI device codenamed Keystone, that connects to any TV or monitor, and offers Xbox game streaming  —  The key to the cloud.  —  For a few years, rumors have persisted that Microsoft was exploring building some form of streaming stick …

Amy Lewin / Sifted: Report: only 15% of GPs at European VC firms are women, managing just 9% of total assets; in the UK, 13% of GPs are women with access to just 5% of total assets  —  Across Europe as a whole, 85% of VC GPs are men.  —  In worse than the average […]

One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the presence of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. These tangles, made of tau proteins, impair neurons’ ability to function normally and can cause the cells to die. A new study from MIT chemists has revealed how two types of tau proteins, known as 3R and 4R tau, […]

After the actor’s NFT and licensing agreement were stolen, he suggested going to court to win back intellectual property rights. Not so fast.

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: A Twitter shareholder sues Elon Musk and Twitter over the handling of the acquisition and says Musk engaged in conduct “designed to create doubt about the deal”  —  – Since Musk’s acquisition bid, Twitter’s share price has dropped more than 12%, and Tesla’s is down about 28% as part of a […]

While the infamous imageboard’s ties to mass shootings have long been clear, its relationship with a Japanese toymaker has remained remarkably murky.

Lawmakers argue Android phone data could be “weaponized against women” if the US Supreme Court officially overturns abortion protections.

Michael Tobin / Bloomberg: Instacart plans to slow hiring as it prepares for its IPO, after hiring over 1,500 staff in 2021; Instacart cut its valuation by 40% to $24B in March 2022  —  Grocery delivery startup Instacart Inc. is planning to slow the pace of hiring as it prepares for an initial public offering, […]

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Tether enters Latin America by launching the MXNT stablecoin, pegged to the Mexican peso, initially available on the Ethereum, Tron, and Polygon blockchains  —  Quick Take  — Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the Mexican peso.  — It will be initially available on Ethereum, Tron and Polygon.

Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author Frank Wilczek, the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, has been awarded the 2022 Templeton Prize. This prize is awarded to individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality. “He is one of those rare and wonderful individuals who bring together a keen, creative intellect […]

More than 30 congressional and executive branch staffers were hosted by MIT’s Security Studies Program (SSP) for a series of panels and a keynote address focused on contemporary national security issues.  Organized by the Security Studies Program, the Executive Branch and Congressional Staff Seminar was held from Wednesday, April 20m to Friday, April 22, in […]

A new study by geologists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), MIT, and elsewhere has found that colliding continental plates may draw down more water than previously thought. The results could help to explain the explosiveness of some volcanic eruptions, as well as the distribution of ore deposits such as copper, silver, and gold. […]

Past performance isn’t always the sole measure of what someone can really do.

Five strategies to help you cut back.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Assembled, a workforce management service for customer support teams, raises a $51M Series B led by New Enterprise Associates, taking its total funding to $71M  —  Assembled, which bills itself as a workforce management platform for customer support teams, today announced that it raised $51 million …

Alex Konrad / Forbes: A profile of Stripe’s John and Patrick Collison; sources say the startup’s gross revenue rose 60% YoY to nearly $12B in 2021 as net revenue reached almost $2.5B  —  Billionaire brothers John and Patrick Collison built Stripe into one of the world’s most-hyped, highest valued — and profitable! — startups, worth […]

Coco Liu / Bloomberg: Alibaba beats estimates as Q4 revenue rose 9% YoY to ~$30.3B, the second straight quarter of single-digit growth, and its net loss reached ~$2.4B  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported a better-than-expected 9% rise in revenue after Chinese consumers turned to online malls for basic needs during Covid lockdowns across the […]

A set of 16 qubits has been arranged so that they may be able to run any calculation error-free – a crucial step toward building quantum computers that can outpace traditional ones

A completely automated system for using a washing machine, from loading to unloading, is already being used for appliance tests by one manufacturer

What is virtual reality? On a technical level, it is a headset-enabled system using images and sounds to make the user feel as if they are in another place altogether. But in terms of the content and essence of virtual reality — well, that may depend on where you are. In the U.S., for instance, […]

Researchers found a litany of security flaws that allow simple, quick, and cheap forgeries in Australia.

Today, AI can take control of characters in Minecraft. Soon, it could help you control your whole computer.

Mifepristone and misoprostol are a safe and effective way to end a pregnancy, but many people around the world still don’t know these drugs exist.

Diane Bartz / Reuters: Twitter agrees to pay $150M to the FTC, settling allegations that it misrepresented the “security and privacy” of user data between May 2013 and September 2019  —  Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) has settled with U.S. authorities over allegations it misrepresented the “security and privacy” …

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Peter Thiel steps down from Meta’s board, on which he secured a seat in 2005 after investing $500K; Meta announced in February 2022 that Thiel would be leaving  —  Peter Thiel has officially stepped down from Meta’s board, a position he’s held since Facebook was in its infancy.

Bloomberg: Sources: business travel and expense management service TripActions is in talks to raise funding at a ~$9B valuation; TripActions raised $275M in October 2021  —  Startup TripActions is in talks for new round of funding at a higher valuation, signaling investors remain interested …

Strategies for when your brand becomes associated with a noxious public figure.

As artificial intelligence gets better at performing tasks once solely in the hands of humans, like driving cars, many see teaming intelligence as a next frontier. In this future, humans and AI are true partners in high-stakes jobs, such as performing complex surgery or defending from missiles. But before teaming intelligence can take off, researchers must overcome a problem that corrodes […]

When we look out into space, all of the astrophysical objects that we see are embedded in magnetic fields. This is true not only in the neighborhood of stars and planets, but also in the deep space between galaxies and galactic clusters. These fields are weak — typically much weaker than those of a refrigerator […]

Buddhist teacher Willa Blythe Baker called for an “embodied revolution,” in speaking to an MIT audience on May 5, to create a world in which we realize we are connected and interdependent with each other and with our natural environment. She envisioned a world in which we always ask of every question: “How will this […]

They could reduce payment processing costs and cash flow issues.

A new approach to building a trading strategy: crowd-sourcing financial predictions from data scientists.

In a first, warehouse “picker” Daniel Olayiwola will present a resolution at the company’s annual shareholder meeting.

Ring in the summer with a brand-new bed, mattress topper, or cover.

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Hong Kong-based Babel Finance, which offers crypto asset management tools, raises an $80M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $120M  —  Despite recent swings in cryptocurrency values, many institutional investors appear undeterred.  The growth of Babel Finance …

NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory runs super-low-temperature experiments in near-zero gravity that would be impossible to accomplish on Earth.

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, including $1.5B for seed investments, its fourth and largest such fund  —  Silicon Valley venture capital firm launches its largest fund to date focused on digital assets despite market downturn  —  Andreessen Horowitz has launched …

Dan Burns / Reuters: Speaking at Davos, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann says the global digital tax will not arrive in 2023 as planned due to slow negotiations  —  The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that a global digital tax deal may take a year longer to […]

It’s known on campus as “The Sponge.” But last month, undergraduate design major Karyn Nakamura transformed the iconic façade of Simmons Hall into a scintillating interactive canvas. “I didn’t know if we would get permission to project onto Simmons,” says Nakamura, who on three successive evenings in April projected dynamic pixelated images onto Simmons’ windowed façade. She […]

If the company wants to increase diversity in its movies and shows, it needs to make more new stories—not reboot the old ones.

Initial genomic sequencing suggests the virus hasn’t mutated to become more transmissible. So what explains its unprecedented rise across the world?

The Wi-Fi 6E successor is likely more than a year away, but it promises to significantly boost the speed and stability of your wireless connections.

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple says that starting June 30, all App Store apps that offer account creation must also let users delete their account within the app  —  Apple last year announced a change in the App Store guidelines that would require all apps that support account creation to offer an in-app option for […]

Wall Street Journal: Internal memo: Lyft plans to slow US hiring, cut some department budgets, and grant new stock options to some employees to make up for its eroding share price  —  President John Zimmer is expected to announce the measures to staff Tuesday  —  Lyft Inc. LYFT -17.27%▼ will slow hiring …

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: In a letter, 42 Democratic lawmakers urge Google to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary user data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions  —  – Democratic lawmakers urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary or non-aggregated location data …

Cars controlled by AI drive smoothly and more efficiently, and a computer model suggests the effect spreads to nearby drivers too

Pasta-shaped robot can roll over a range of surfaces and escape simple mazes by harvesting heat energy and turning it into motion