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In October 2020, two rival candidates for office in Utah made an unusual television ad together. Incumbent Republican Gov. Spencer Cox and his Democratic challenger, Chris Peterson, appeared in the same spot to note they were both “dedicated to the American values of liberty, democracy, and justice for all people,” as Cox said, and that […]

“Every time I try to solve a problem — whether it be physics or computer science — I always try to find an elegant solution,” says MIT senior Thomas Bergamaschi, who spent four years learning how to solve problems while an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) student in the Engineering Quantum Systems (EQUS) laboratory at […]

New research shows daily physical activity can even impact your creativity the next day.

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A workforce burnout and retention crisis has dominated the industry for the last three years, but data (finally) shows some encouraging trends.

CEO Sima Sistani is eager to leave problematic notions of weight loss behind and keep her company relevant in the midst of a drug-fueled revolution.

The chatbot can help rehearse communication skills and for some provides a resource to turn to when life is tough.

While other networks sputter, LinkedIn is growing. Here’s how to use the professional social network to highlight your accomplishments and skills.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft issues a temporary fix for Surface Pro X tablets after the devices’ cameras stopped working last week, most likely due to a faulty Qualcomm driver  —  Issues with cameras on some Arm-based devices, including the Surface Pro X, started on May 23rd, with owners reporting they couldn’t use …

Wall Street Journal: Analysis: of 460 companies that did SPAC deals, insiders at 232 sold $22B in shares in well-timed trades; Chamath Palihapitiya made $310M selling Virgin stock  —  Executives and early investors sold shares worth $22 billion  —  The SPAC boom cost investors billions.

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: A viral clip from Nintendo’s Tears of the Kingdom shows Link unfurling a bridge, wowing game developers; Nintendo reportedly spent a year polishing the game  —  What looks simple is actually very hard to make  —  There’s a bridge to cross the lava pit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of […]

In the mid-1980s, artist Pamela Z was working at Tower Records on Columbus Street in San Francisco, where one of her jobs was replacing pages in the store’s Phonolog, an enormous alphabetized directory of all the music available at the time, which formed a kind of bible of pop. When she ripped one loose-leafed sheet […]

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Tokyo-based Gitai, which develops a robotic arm and a robotic rover for in-space applications, raised a ~$30M Series B extension led by Global Brain Corporation  —  There is a groundswell of commercial space initiatives focused on the moon, with established companies and newer upstarts …

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: Arm transitions to a comprehensive 64-bit platform with new mobile CPU core designs Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520, built on its Armv9.2 architecture  —  Throughout the world, if there’s one universal constant in the smartphone and mobile device market, it’s Arm.

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: A profile of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, credited with bulking up its ad and subscription businesses while seeking to crack down on dangerous and misleading videos  —  Neal Mohan goofs around with creators and woos advertisers to the platform’s short videos and TV offerings

It’s no secret that legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, causing headaches for anyone who has had to apply for a mortgage or review any other kind of contract. A new MIT study reveals that the lawyers who produce these documents don’t like them very much either. The researchers found that while lawyers can […]

Everybody wins with this program.

Gallup surveyed more than 5,700 fully on-site workers in the U.S. to find out which flexibility options are available to them — and which would entice them to switch jobs.

The social audio hype has died down—but its esoteric charms persist in certain corners of the internet.

Time is money. Reclaim your precious minutes with these strategies for in-person and virtual meetings.

Prolonged exposure to strobe lights has a psychedelic effect, which researchers are investigating as a way to heal the brain.

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: South Korea’s Naver plans to offer versions of its ChatGPT-like AI model to governments worried about US data controls, addressing political and cultural issues  —  Localised versions to address political and cultural sensitivities as well as US data controls

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: An interview with Niels Provos and David Mazieres, co-inventors of popular password-hashing function bcrypt, which turns 25 this year, on password security  —  The co-inventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music.

Bloomberg: Nvidia announces a range of AI products and updates, including the DGX GH200 supercomputer platform, data center networking tools, and a robotics platform  —  In a two-hour presentation in Taiwan, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang unveiled a new batch of products and services tied …

The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works.

Everyone’s definition of what’s appropriate for kids to read or watch is different. But we can offer some advice for managing settings.

The sun is out, the flowers are budding, and it’s time to revel in your new running shoes and sleeping pads.

Rebecca Feng / Wall Street Journal: Analysts and others say Wind Information, described as a Chinese alternative to Bloomberg terminal, is limiting international users’ access to some information  —  E-commerce shopping trends, satellite images are no longer available to foreign users of Wind

Matthew Gault / VICE: A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others that is using AI-generated images to train ML systems and generative adversarial networks  —  Discord’s captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI.  —  Matthew Gault

Steve Lohr / New York Times: In July, NYC will start enforcing a law requiring firms using AI in hiring to notify candidates of its use and have independent auditors check for bias annually  —  New York City’s pioneering, focused approach sets rules on how companies use the technology in work force decisions.

These wireless gaming headphones aim to do it all, and they’re pretty darn close to perfect.

The code-hosting platform’s headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories.

Your messages, on your PC, in seconds.

Andrew Logan / Texas Monthly: A profile of Tapbots founders Paul Haddad and Mark Jardine; ex-Twitter exec Amir Shevat says ~17% of engagement on Twitter historically was via third-party apps  —  After Elon Musk killed their Twitter app, two software developers in the North Texas suburbs are trying to shape the future of social media.

Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: Activists and telecom experts say the Kenyan government’s plan, permitted by the Supreme Court, to track counterfeit phones is “excessive” and threatens privacy  —  The Supreme Court granted the communications regulator permission to implement a program that combats counterfeits.

Sam Kim / Bloomberg: Source: South Korea won’t encourage its memory-chip firms to grab market share in China lost by Micron, as it could disrupt its bilateral relations with the US  —  South Korea will avoid capitalizing on China’s ban on a US chipmaker, seeing the move by Beijing as an attempt to drive …

We made tons of coffee, tea, and ramen to test these gadgets—and boiled it down to these top picks.

Bloomberg: US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US “won’t tolerate” China’s ban on Micron chips and calls the decision an “economic coercion”  —  Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US “won’t tolerate” the recent decision by Chinese authorities to ban chips …

TikTok user data is exposed to Chinese ByteDance employees, a screen recording app goes rogue in Google Play, and privacy groups want Slack to expand encryption.

Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer: The developers behind open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin say Nintendo sent Valve a DMCA takedown notice to block Dolphin’s impending release on Steam  —  The GameCube & Wii emulator developers say the Steam release is “indefinitely postponed.”  —  On Friday, the developers behind …

Tracy Wen Liu / Wired: Source and analysis: PDD-owned Temu is losing an average of $30 per order and between $588M to $954M per year, as it tries to break into the US market  —  The Chinese shopping app is topping app stores in the US.  But it’s burning money and squeezing its suppliers to […]

Nude photos, bank details and stolen credit card numbers have been found on devices sold by US police forces via auction sites

The number of ocean going birds has declined 70 percent since the 1950s, but restoring their populations can bolster marine ecosystems that sequester carbon.

These chest straps and watches can help keep your finger on the pulse of your wellness.

Financial Times: The popularity of H100, which offers at least 3x better performance than the A100, with Big Tech, OpenAI, and others has pushed Nvidia’s market value toward $1T  —  High demand for US group’s H100 processors helps send its market value skyrocketing towards $1tn

Associated Press: AGs from Washington DC and 48 US states file a lawsuit against Avid Telecom, accusing the firm of making 7.5B+ robocalls to people on the Do Not Call Registry  —  Attorneys general across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls …

The Baratza Encore ESP is fine-tuned to grind coffee to make espresso, but it’s adept at prepping beans for almost all other brew methods too.

Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary EU pact to combat online disinformation and adds Twitter’s “obligations remain”  —  Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday.

Reuters: Sources: PE firms Francisco Partners and TPG have ended talks to acquire observability software company New Relic after failing to secure enough debt financing  —  Private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG Inc (TPG.O) have ended talks to acquire New Relic Inc (NEWR.N) …

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