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The i5 has at last arrived with a good range, impressive speed, and even in-car gaming to banish charging boredom. But there’s an issue if you’re in the UK.

Antibody treatments clear amyloid protein from patients’ brains, slowing the progression of their disease but potentially inducing deadly swelling.

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Figure, which is developing a humanoid robot that recently took its first step, raised a $70M Series A led by Parkway, following a self-financed $100M seed  —  I spent a bit of time at Figure’s Sunnyvale offices during a recent visit to the South Bay.  The firm is currently in that […]

Bloomberg: Istanbul-based AI marketing startup Insider raised $105M at a $2B valuation, up from $1.22B during its $121M Series D in March 2022, taking its funding to $274M  —  Insider, a Turkish artificial intelligence-backed marketing platform, was valued at almost $2 billion in a funding round …

Soo-Hyang Choi / Reuters: US filing: South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix ask the US to review its chip subsidy criteria, concerned over the impact on limiting chip investment in China  —  South Korea has asked Washington to review its criteria for new semiconductor subsidies, concerned over the impact of rules …

Many of the biological materials that researchers are most interested in studying, including those associated with major diseases, don’t lend themselves to the conventional methods that researchers typically use to probe a material’s structure and chemistry. One technique, called magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance, or MAS-NMR, has proven highly successful as a way of determining […]

In computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD), 3D objects are often represented by the contours of their outer surfaces. Computers store these shapes as “thin shells,” which model the contours of the skin of an animated character but not the flesh underneath. This modeling decision makes it efficient to store and manipulate 3D shapes, but […]

And it’s happening in plain sight.

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Tokyo-based taxi-hailing app Go says it raised ~$72M from Goldman Sachs at a ~$1B valuation and commands 70% of the Japanese market, outpacing Uber and Didi  —  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has made Japan’s leading taxi-hailing provider, Go Inc., a unicorn with its biggest startup investment in the country.

“Container registries” are ubiquitous software clearinghouses, but they’ve been exposed for years. Chainguard says it now has a solution.

From Silo to Ted Lasso, here’s everything you need to be watching on the streamer.

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Elliptic: some Chinese chemical suppliers accept cryptocurrency for fentanyl ingredients and the majority use “three specific exchanges” based outside of China  —  And it’s happening in plain sight.  —  Fentanyl has long been one of the most dangerous wares …

Jon Porter / The Verge: Samsung demos multiple OLED panels, including a long rollable display and one that measures heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels from a user’s finger  —  The Rollable Flex is an interesting new flexible screen from Samsung Display that can be unrolled from just 49mm to 254.4mm, over five times […]

Theo St. Francis is an MIT senior majoring in aeronautics and astronautics. He is graduating this month with a concentration in Portuguese, and has visited Brazil with the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives’ Global Teaching Labs. This year, St. Francis was the recipient of the Global Languages Margarita Ribas Groeger Distinguished Scholar award. In […]

At least one cryptocurrency based on the old version of Ethereum is still vulnerable to a software flaw that enables attackers to steal funds

AI-generated ads fooled marketing experts and outperformed typical US print ads on a test that measured creativity and potential to spur emotional responses

When we think of getting on the road in our cars, our first thoughts may not be that fellow drivers are particularly safe or careful — but human drivers are more reliable than one may expect. For each fatal car crash in the United States, motor vehicles log a whopping hundred million miles on the […]

Lessons from Kuwait’s Gulf Bank.

Three cybersecurity investments to target.

After its successful initial public offering (IPO), how will the mainland’s first private mental health hospital group grow?

Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems’ shortcomings can have vast consequences.

Reuters: Sources: in 2020 and 2021, Binance commingled customer funds with revenue; a source says the sums ran into billions of dollars in Silvergate-held accounts  —  The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, commingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021 …

Scientists are testing ways to construct buildings on Mars and the moon without hauling materials from Earth. One possible solution: 3D printed melted regolith.

Polish that Apple on your desk with these tasty apps for writing, organization, security, and more.

Sundar Pichai / Financial Times: Building AI responsibly matters more than competition, one company cannot fulfill AI’s potential alone, and global cooperation, especially US-EU, will be key  —  Fulfilling the technology’s potential is not something that one company can do alone  —  The writer is CEO of Google and Alphabet

New York Times: US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy releases a 19-page report arguing social media can have a “profound risk of harm” for kids and teens and calls for action  —  Dr. Vivek H. Murthy urged immediate action from policymakers, tech companies and parents to safeguard against potential harms.

A robot manipulating objects while, say, working in a kitchen, will benefit from understanding which items are composed of the same materials. With this knowledge, the robot would know to exert a similar amount of force whether it picks up a small pat of butter from a shadowy corner of the counter or an entire […]

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

Treatment in utero could cure diseases before birth. Recent advances in lab animals may bring medicine closer to achieving it—but this field is still in its infancy.

In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country’s officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”

Yossi Matias / The Keyword: Google expands its AI-based flood forecasting service Flood Hub to 80 countries, up from 20, offering forecasts up to 7 days in advance to 460 million people  —  Flood Hub is expanding to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to 7 days in advance of a flood to 460 million people.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based Chalo, which offers online payments and commute tracking for bus operators, raised a $45M Series D led by Avataar Ventures and $12M in debt  —  Indian startup Chalo, which is working to transform bus commutes, has raised $45 million in a new funding round and secured …

Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: Zoom reports Q1 revenue of $1.11B, vs. $1.08B est., up 3% YoY, Enterprise revenue of $632M, up 13% YoY, and customers contributing $100K+ annually up ~23% YoY  —  Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) on Monday raised its annual revenue forecast, betting on hybrid work trends to sustain demand for its video-conferencing […]

Professor Daniel Anderson has won the 2023 Wilhelm Exner Medal, awarded by the Austrian Industry Association, for excellence in research and science since 1921. Anderson will receive the award during the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation’s Exner Lectures, May 22-23 in Vienna, Austria. “Professor Anderson has changed our world,” says Elazer R. Edelman, Edward J. Poitras […]

MIT junior Anushree Chaudhuri has been selected as a 2023 Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Scholar. She is only the second MIT student to win this award and the first winner since 2008. The Udall Scholarship honors students who have demonstrated a commitment to the environment, Native American health care, or tribal […]

How businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone.

Because serotonin is one of the primary chemicals the brain uses to influence mood and behavior, it is also the most common target of psychiatric drugs. To improve those drugs and to invent better ones, scientists need to know much more about how the molecule affects brain cells and circuits both in health and amid […]

How leaders can overcome their reluctance and embrace a practical, data-driven approach that creates value for shareholders and stakeholders alike.

A senior leader who is struggling with his new boss must learn how to handle the negative work dynamic.

Elon Musk’s appointment repeats a pattern in which companies led into crisis by men suddenly appoint women leaders.

Wall Street Journal: China’s Micron ban means South Korea’s Samsung and SK Hynix could fill the void, an uncomfortable position because of their exposure to China and US pressure  —  Samsung, SK Hynix would be best positioned to fill Micron’s void, though geopolitical pressure from both Beijing and Washington make for a tough choice

Financial Times: Some educators are cautiously experimenting with generative AI, questioning whether the tech can be used in classrooms without undermining numeracy and literacy  —  When Lauren started researching the British designer Yinka Ilori for a school project earlier this year, she was able to consult her new study pal: artificial intelligence.

New York Times: After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in May 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still do not identify gorillas  —  Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled by image analysis software — and despite big advances …

An alternative form of computer chip called a memcomputer could offer benefits over existing machines, and now a proof-of-principle digital memcomputer shows how these devices could be scaled up

In March, two vans filled with doctors and medical supplies crossed the Polish border into Ukraine and made their way to Kyiv as part of a humanitarian mission. Both vans were packed with traditional medical supplies the country is in desperate need of, such as tourniquets, bandages, and suture kits. But one van also carried […]

For many owners of electric vehicles (EVs), or for prospective EV owners, a thorny problem is where to charge them. Even as legacy automakers increasingly invest in manufacturing more all-electric cars and trucks, there is not a dense network of charging stations serving many types of vehicles, which would make EVs more convenient to use. […]

Prepare your home to handle any natural disaster or emergency with these crucial essentials.

Peter Funt / Wall Street Journal: Service robots like Moxi, which delivers medicines in hospitals, and Jesper, which serves food in restaurants, are in high demand despite job loss concerns  —  The pandemic may be over, but the demand for nonhuman workers in health care, food service and other fields is here to stay

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers reveal many low-cost Android phones and smart TVs from lesser-known brands, sold in the US and owned by millions, come with malware preinstalled  —  The bane of low-cost Android devices is showing no signs of going away.  —  Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security.

Paresh Dave / Wired: Hands-on with Google’s Duet AI writing aid: a stiff style, inaccurate information, inconsistent Docs and Gmail behavior, great at drafting complaints, and more  —  I used Duet AI to send emails and plan my wedding.  Its writing can be stuffy and stereotyping—but it’s a glimpse of the future of productivity apps.