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The Gruber Foundation announced on May 17 that Emery N. Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT, has won the 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize along with neurophysicists Laurence Abbott of Columbia University, Terrence Sejnowski of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Haim Sompolinsky of the Hebrew University […]

MIT graduate student Milain Fayulu is on a mission. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Fayulu is telling, and selling, the story of his nation in the hope of aiding its people and transforming its economy. For decades, the DRC has been hobbled by corruption and bloody civil conflicts. “I grew up with […]

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Ages 14 through 24 are marked by critical transitions as youth begin to make decisions about the future. Early employment is one type of formative experience that can have significant benefits for youths’ trajectory into adulthood: In their first one or two jobs, youth can start to develop connections to employers, a work history, and […]

A conversation with Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Harvard Kennedy School’s Steve Kadish on getting results in public service.

Reclaim a bit of silence in an increasingly noisy world.

It’s difficult to predict the negative impacts of an idea or invention, but certain frameworks can help entrepreneurs  see a little bit further.

Rumbles and tides create tiny, detectable disturbances in fiber optics. The world’s cables could form a vast network for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis.

Financial Times: At Andy Jassy’s first Amazon shareholder meeting this Wednesday, filings show the company will oppose all 15 proposals, the most it has faced since 2010  —  Proposals at this week’s AGM will be test of leadership for new chief Andy Jassy  —  Amazon shareholders will challenge the company on executive pay …

Increased demand and staffing shortages are already contributing to huge delays and airport logjams across the country. Here’s what you can do.

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: How Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s $419M donation to US local and state election officials in 2020 has become a target of right-wing conspiracies  —  If Mark Zuckerberg could have imagined the worst possible outcome of his decision to insert himself into the 2020 election …

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Google Research details Imagen, an AI-based text-to-image generator to rival OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, and says it won’t release code or a public demo at this time  —  The AI world is still figuring out how to deal with the amazing show of prowess that is DALL-E 2’s ability to draw/paint/imagine …

Jessica Chomik-Morales had a bicultural childhood. She was born in Boca Raton, Florida, where her parents had come seeking a better education for their daughter than she would have access to in Paraguay. But when she wasn’t in school, Chomik-Morales was back in that small, South American country with her family. One of the consequences […]

Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, the president of Iceland, visited MIT on Friday, engaging in talks with several campus leaders and professors, and touring the Media Lab. Jóhannesson visited the Institute along with a substantial delegation of officials and scholars from Iceland. They met with MIT scholars, who delivered a variety of presentations on research, design, and […]

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Spotify is slowly bringing back political ads on podcasts after pausing them in early 2020, and says it has strengthened its advertiser verification system  —  Spotify stopped hosting political ads on its services in early 2020, citing a lack of “robustness” in its systems …

This gizmo lets you sling treats to your dog or cat when you’re away and can play out your prerecorded voice commands.

The same qualities that make cryptocurrencies go bust also explain why they refuse to die.

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Snap CEO warns employees the company will miss its Q2 revenue and earnings targets as its growth weakens, and plans to slow hiring; stock drops 29%+ after hours  —  – Snap will miss its own targets for revenue and adjusted earnings in the current quarter, CEO Evan Speigel warned on Monday […]

A soft robot made from a twist of rubber can harvest heat energy and use it to roll across a variety of surfaces and even escape mazes

Riley de León / CNBC: eBay partners with NFT startup OneOf to launch 13 digital collectibles featuring Wayne Gretzky, and plans more sports NFTs throughout 2022, starting at $10 each  —  – eBay is getting into NFTs — and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky is featured in the first collection from the e-commerce company.

The sun shone bright and warm on the Dertouzos Amphitheater at the Stata Center this past Earth Day as a panel of Indigenous leaders from across the country talked about their experiences with climate activism and shared their natural world philosophies — a worldview that sees humanity as one with the rest of the Earth. […]

It doesn’t have to feel like the end of the world — or be the end of your relationship.

Over the past 21 years, the MIT PKG Center’s IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge has awarded over $1.1 million in funding to over 200 student-led teams addressing social and environmental challenges globally. Through the work of these extraordinary teams, more than half of which are still active today, IDEAS has impacted over 2.5 million people. In […]

The MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) has awarded 20 projects a total of $5 million over two years in its first-ever 2022 MCSC Seed Awards program. The winning projects are led by principal investigators across all five of MIT’s schools. The goal of the MCSC Seed Awards is to engage MIT researchers and link the […]

Threats and opportunities can emerge at any moment, from any direction.

A paycheck alone won’t jumpstart a career.

Financial Times: IT services group Atos sues the UK over its £854M meteorology supercomputer contract, awarded to Microsoft in 2021; a High Court trial expected in June 2022  —  Atos claims it was wrongfully excluded from bids for advanced system for predicting weather and climate change

The Moto G Stylus 5G and Moto G 5G are adequate, but their screens, cameras, and software support are lackluster compared to their peers.

Well, maybe not 1,000, but at least nine.

Doctors will be cautious about offering any treatment that could be regarded as an illegal termination—forcing patients to seek out-of-state care.

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Singapore-based MatchMove, which helps businesses embed financial services, acquires e-commerce startup Shopmatic for $200M; Shopmatic has 1M+ customers  —  Singapore-headquartered fintech MatchMove Pay Pte. has acquired fellow e-commerce startup Shopmatic Pte. for $200 million …

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: StepN, a Solana-based app that rewards users with tokens for walking and running, says it has 2M-3M MAUs and makes $3M-5M/day in net profit from trading fees  —  But skeptics question its sustainability and whether it can be called a ‘game’  —  Since its launch in December, StepN …

When it rains, it pours. Here are our picks for cold, wet days—plus expert tips on deciphering product specs.

Make a long-distance connection. These cooperative multiplayer games let you and your friends play together online.

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: YouTube takes down 70K+ videos and 9K+ channels about the war in Ukraine for violating content guidelines, including videos referring to a “liberation mission”  —  Exclusive: Platform takes ‘unprecedented action’ to address content guideline violations since invasion

Reuters: Paytm, whose share price has dropped 57% so far this year, reports Q4 revenue of ~$200M, up 89% YoY, and a net loss of ~$98M, up 72% YoY due to higher expenses  —  India’s One 97 Communications Ltd (PAYT.NS), the parent of fintech firm Paytm, on Friday reported a wider fourth-quarter loss due …

Greg Roumeliotis / Reuters: Sources: Broadcom is in ongoing talks to acquire VMware, but a deal is not imminent  —  Chipmaker Broadcom Inc (AVGO.O) is in talks to acquire cloud service provider VMware Inc (VMW.N), people familiar with the matter told Reuters.  —  Negotiations between Broadcom and VMware are ongoing and a deal is not […]

You don’t want just anyone in your inbox. Here’s how to take control.

By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory.

This retrofit robot makes your drapes smart, so you can open or close them on a schedule or with a voice command.

Silicon Canals: London-based SaaS management startup Vertice, which aims to help businesses reduce their annual SaaS spend by 20%-30%, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A  —  London-based SaaS purchasing platform Vertice ‘has come out of stealth’ and announced on Thursday that it has secured $26M …

Max A. Cherney / Protocol: Interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on Arm’s future plans, investing more in R&D, its competitor RISC-V, the company’s relationship with Intel, and more  —  The new path for Arm is beginning to come into focus.  —  Weeks after Nvidia’s $40 bid to acquire Arm from SoftBank collapsed …

Plus: The Conti ransomware gang shuts down, Canada bans Huawei and ZTE, and more of the week’s top security news.

Sean Hollister / The Verge: iFixit will sell nearly every part of the Steam Deck, including its $350 motherboard with the AMD Aerith chipset, and upgrades to fans and screen  —  You might even be able to upgrade your fan or screen  —  The era of fixing your own gadgets has nearly arrived, and Valve’s […]

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says crypto assets should be regulated, as they are “worth nothing” and “based on nothing”  —  European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said crypto-currencies are “based on nothing” and should be regulated …

Plus: Some beefier Qualcomm Snapdragon chips are on the way, and the right-to-repair movement hits a speed bump.

And you can even keep your custom email address! But you need to confirm that your account is for personal, not business, use—here’s how.

Sara Morrison / Vox: A look at the antitrust woes of Google, which is potentially in more trouble than other Big Tech companies as several bills and lawsuits target its businesses  —  The synonym for search finds itself in big antitrust trouble. … There’s a new Big Tech antitrust bill in town, and this one […]

As Big Tech tried to block the state’s ban on content moderation, Texas leaned on the US Supreme Court justice’s interpretation of free speech law.

Jonathan Greig / The Record: At Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, several bugs were exploited in Microsoft, Ubuntu, and Tesla products; first day saw $800K+ awarded for exploiting 16 zero-day bugs  —  Several bugs in Microsoft, Ubuntu and Tesla products were found and exploited during the three-day Pwn2Own hacking conference in Vancouver this week.