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Gabriela Sá Pessoa is a journalist passionate about the intersection of human rights and climate change. She came to MIT from The Washington Post, where she worked from her home country of Brazil as a news researcher reporting on the Amazon, human rights violations, and environmental crimes. Before that, she held roles at two of […]

How can one company best hold itself accountable for its role in the opioid crisis?

Guidelines for companies as they implement the next generation of AI tools.

Touted as a return to the Diablo franchise’s dark origins, this new entry feels fresh but familiar enough to be addictive.

The right equipment will help you stay connected, stay hydrated, and never get overwhelmed.

Drybar’s hybrid tool won’t replace your straightener, but it can cut your routine in half for certain hair types.

Priya Anand / Bloomberg: Reddit defends its usage-based API pricing, arguing the company “needs to be fairly paid to continue supporting high-usage third-party apps”  —  A number of Reddit forums plan to go dark for two days later this month to protest the company’s decision to increase prices for third-party app developers.

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: At TSMC’s annual meeting, geopolitics took center stage for the first time, as CEO Mark Liu defended the US expansion, saying the plans were “not all downside”  —  Shareholders question strategy but chair says new foundries outside Taiwan can help it maintain global leadership

Tom Wilson / Reuters: Nansen: investors pulled ~$780M from Binance and $13M from its US affiliate in the past 24 hours, following the SEC’s lawsuit  —  Investors have pulled around $780 million from crypto exchange Binance in the last 24 hours, data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, a day after the world’s biggest crypto exchange […]

Apple’s Vision Pro headset announced at WWDC 2023 blends virtual and real-world experiences together. But it still has many of the same problems as other headsets

A test taken by more than 1.5 million people shows that the latest generation of artificial intelligences are almost indistinguishable from humans, at least in a brief conversation

The SEC alleges that the world’s largest crypto exchange and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, lied to regulators and put customers and investors at risk.

Instead of scanning iCloud for illegal content, Apple’s tech will locally flag inappropriate images for kids. And adults are getting an opt-in nudes filter, too.

The company showed off new software and hardware—including a VR headset—at its annual developer conference today.

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Gigabyte releases BIOS updates to remove a backdoor that was found in over 270 motherboard models and could let hackers install malware when the PC restarts  —  Gigabyte has announced BIOS updates that remove a recently identified backdoor feature in hundreds of its motherboards.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: In a filing, Twitter’s lawyers say “Twitter Files” show no government interference at the company, implying Elon Musk is wrong about what the files revealed  —  from the confirmation-idiocy dept  —  It is amazing the degree to which some people will engage in confirmation bias …

Apple’s Vision Pro headset announced at WWDC 2023 blends virtual and real-world experiences together. But it still has many of the same problems as other headsets

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple Vision Pro will launch with Disney+ and hundreds of thousands of existing iPhone and iPad apps, including Word and Excel, and support Unity game engine  —  Apple took the wraps off Vision Pro, an expensive pair of goggles the company promises will unlock a new universe of magical new virtual- […]

Biologists are finally beginning to corral molecules, cells and whole organisms to carry out complex computations. These living processors could find use in everything from smart materials to new kinds of artificial intelligence

Researchers from MIT, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research, and elsewhere have developed a new technique for analyzing unlabeled audio and visual data that could improve the performance of machine-learning models used in applications like speech recognition and object detection. The work, for the first time, combines two architectures of self-supervised learning, contrastive learning […]

This summer, five MIT graduate students will travel to Mexico, Brazil, Kenya, and Cape Verde as part of a new fellowship to explore how governance innovations are making governments more transparent and accountable to citizens in regions of the world that are underrepresented in global innovation and design research.    The students will be embedded within […]

Evidence that noninvasive sensory stimulation of 40 Hz gamma frequency brain rhythms can reduce Alzheimer’s disease pathology and symptoms, already shown with light and sound by multiple research groups in mice and humans, now extends to tactile stimulation. A new study by MIT scientists shows that Alzheimer’s model mice exposed to 40 Hz vibration for […]

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If you’re a woman who’s a new manager, people will probably push back on your authority.

By using new technologies and services, U.S. health providers can take virtual health care to the next level.

Jon Porter / The Verge: To protest API pricing for third-party Reddit apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other large subreddits plan to go private on June 12 for 48 hours  —  Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves …

The education company is a case study in generative AI’s disruptive power. Now it’s trying to prove it can beat back ChatGPT with an in-house chatbot.

In a world where health care in one state is a crime in another, the interconnectivity of electronic medical records puts patients’ reproductive health data at risk.

Make, mend, and alter clothes to your heart’s desire with this device both novices and experts will appreciate.

Reuters: Bank records: Binance executive Guangying Chen controlled five Silvergate Bank accounts from 2019 to 2020 belonging to its purportedly independent US affiliate  —  A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange’s purportedly …

Sahar Elhabashi / Spotify: Spotify plans to cut ~200 jobs, or 2% of its staff, at its podcast unit, combines Parcast and Gimlet into Spotify Studios, and reports 100M+ podcast listeners  —  Below is an adaptation of an internal update on Spotify’s Podcast Business from Sahar Elhabashi, VP, Head of Podcast Business.

What do a student tinkerer in Bhutan, a design professional in Nairobi, and an artist in Brazil have in common? They’re part of a global community of makers benefiting from the fab lab network, which provides the space, equipment, and training to make (almost) anything. Today the fab lab network includes more than 2,500 centers […]

Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: Instagram reinstates Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s account after he launched his presidential bid; he was banned in 2021 over false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines  —  The prominent anti-vaccine campaigner was suspended in 2021 for spreading misleading health claims.

Whether you’re biking to the office or schlepping a camera to a shoot, a laptop bag is your constant companion. These WIRED-reviewed packs do the job.

Yvonne Lau / Fortune: As TSMC plans to hire 4,500 workers at its two Arizona fabs, recruiters say the company’s culture, rigid standards, and overseas training turn off candidates  —  On the Glassdoor profile of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC—the world’s biggest manufacturer of semiconductor chips …

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: A look at The Frost, a 12-minute movie created by Waymark using DALL-E 2, as startups like Waymark and Runway make AI tools for fast and cheap video production  —  Exclusive: Watch the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost.  —  The Frost nails its uncanny, […]

In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” that fit their criteria. A new proof reveals that there are infinitely more.

Wired: Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, its politics of attention, power of federated networks, more  —  We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square and what other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon might offer.

The Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off tomorrow. We break down the potential announcements ahead of the keynote.

The latest entry in the Zelda series turns its prequel’s sandbox into more of a toybox, encouraging you to build, play, and discover.

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: Five teams at DEF CON 2023 will try to hack a US-funded cubesat Moonlighter, the first time DEF CON hackers will get a chance to hack a live, in-orbit satellite  —  ‘World’s first and only’ orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off Sunday  —  FEATURE Assuming the weather and […]

Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: Some Montana residents speak about the state’s highly politicized TikTok ban, including one of the influencers who is suing the state to overturn the ban  —  How a highly politicized social media ban in Big Sky Country sparked a nationwide debate over freedom of speech

Plus: Amazon’s Ring was ordered to delete algorithms, North Korea’s failed spy satellite, and a rogue drone “attack” isn’t what it seems.

Did you just get one of Nintendo’s three Switch consoles? Here are some of their best (and most secret) abilities!

Five years after the German company’s original EV, E-tron is up for a refresh. But is the Q8 enough?

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google Wallet rolls out support for US state IDs, starting with Maryland, and plans to add IDs from Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia in the coming months  —  The state-by-state rollout is still a huge mess, but Android is ready, at least.  —  Google Wallet on Android is finally getting ready […]

Financial Times: A look at Berlin-based Rocket Internet, as founder Oliver Samwer transforms one of Europe’s most aggressive tech VCs into a more conservative investment house  —  Oliver Samwer quietly transforms one of Europe’s most aggressive VC firms into a more conservative investment house

Paresh Dave / Wired: AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers  —  AI chatbots are less fluent in languages other than English, threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation.

The option to choose the algorithms that power your feed is taking off on Bluesky—and there’s a good chance it will catch on elsewhere too.

David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker: A look at India’s hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services  —  The country has developed a lucrative specialty: cyberattacks for hire.  —  In the summer of 2020, Jonas Rey …