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An AI that predicts wind changes could boost wind turbine efficiency by 0.3 per cent, which globally would amount to enough extra electricity to keep a country running

The new tool basically transforms ChatGPT into a virtual assistant to help you manage projects, run a marketing campaign, and more.

As researchers race to cultivate these intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few growing in labs are our best glimpses of the forerunners of complex life.

David Pan / Bloomberg: Analysts say crypto miners pivoting to AI cloud services face an uphill battle due to needing other specialized processors, hardware and staff costs, and more  —  Crypto miners looking to provide services for upstarts in artificial intelligence may be looking at an uphill battle, according to analysts.

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How Mobileye, Cruise, Waymo, and other self-driving system makers are simulating bad drivers, jaywalkers, and edge cases to train and test autonomous vehicles  —  Call it the Mad Max driving test, a gantlet only a Hollywood director—or a mild-mannered engineer—could dream up

While the company’s new top-level domains could be used in phishing attacks, security researchers are divided on how big of a problem they really pose.

Financial Times: Sources: Meta and Magic Leap are in talks for a multiyear deal in which Magic Leap could provide IP licensing and contract manufacturing for Meta’s AR products  —  Social media giant seeks technologies to help create an avatar-filled ‘metaverse’  —  Facebook’s parent company is in talks …

Plus: The FBI gets busted abusing a spy tool, an ex-Apple engineer is charged with corporate espionage, and collection of airborne DNA raises new privacy risks.

Our list of speakers of all shapes and sizes can help make sure aural gratification is yours.

Need to keep an eye (or ear) on your kids from another room? Our picks will help you do it.

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Unable to turn a profit amid fewer hours watched, some US esports organizations lay off staff, end star player contracts, or even sell their teams at a loss  —  At least two organizations in America’s most prominent league for professional video game players are selling their teams, underscoring the […]

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: How crypto hunters help people going through a divorce find their spouse’s hidden crypto stashes, following the trail of tokens as they “hop” across blockchains  —  – Financial infidelity has become increasingly sophisticated, as investors “hop” coins across blockchains and sink their cash into metaverse properties.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based Percent, which operates a private credit marketplace, raised a $29.7M Series B led by White Star Capital, bringing its total funding to $48.2M  —  In 2018, Nelson Chu founded Percent with the goal of bringing investors, borrowers and underwriters together to modernize private credit.

Prepare for a busy summer ahead with discounts on our favorite gadgets.

Animal welfare groups are pushing the US to restrict the import of hippo parts. But experts argue that that policy is limited, and may even cause harm.

Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: Inside the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami, attended by 12K+ people, down from 25K+ in 2022, which had a subdued yet positive mood, and no talks of moonshots  —  It turns out that the Bitcoin faithful still like to party even after the annus horribilis that shook the digital-asset world in […]

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Filing: AT&T asks the FCC to block a SpaceX/T-Mobile plan that allows Starlink to service areas lacking T-Mobile coverage, saying “FCC’s rules do not permit” it  —  AT&T and rural telcos say Starlink-fueled phone service would cause interference.

From USB worms to satellite-based hacking, Russia’s FSB hackers, known as Turla, have spent 25 years distinguishing themselves as “adversary number one.”

Rebekah Valentine / IGN: China approves Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, bringing the total to 37 countries, including the EU and Japan  —  Thirty-seven total regulators have voiced approval thus far.  —  China’s State Administration has approved Microsoft’s attempted $69 billion acquisition …

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apollo Global Management and Fortress Investment Group are each investing ~$50M in competing groups that aim to restart Celsius under new management  —  Investors that buy and turn around downtrodden companies have largely shunned crypto  —  Two Wall Street heavyweights are locked …

Financial Times: A look at the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn’s transparency report says the company blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M in H1  —  On the internet, nobody knows you bought a dog  —  William Grace-Hunter doesn’t exist, though this may not be immediately obvious from his LinkedIn profile.

From Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga to Zombieland, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

Financial Times: Sources: top shareholder SoftBank demanded compensation from Revolut after UK regulators told the startup to simplify its ownership to obtain a banking license  —  Minister to meet payment group’s bosses amid fears UK’s biggest tech group will leave the country

An historic delegation of 10 Indigenous artists and advisors recently gathered on MIT’s campus to share their work with each other and with the MIT community. The theme of the ISO Indigenous Incubator at MIT gathering was “Indigenous Knowledge and Immersive Technologies.” Led by the Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) of Canada and hosted by the […]

The materials key to many important applications in aerospace and energy generation must be able to withstand extreme conditions such as high temperatures and tensile stresses without failing. Now a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used today in such applications. Further, the team believes […]

As the world struggles to meet internationally agreed targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, methods of removing carbon dioxide such as reforestation of cleared areas have become an increasingly important strategy. But little attention has been paid to the potential for abandoned or marginal croplands to be restored to natural vegetation as an additional carbon […]

Three lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives.

Firm but professional steps that will let you totally unplug.

Poorly run meetings negatively affect team performance, cohesion, and ultimate success.

B&O’s wireless outdoor speaker is pricey, but for once it’s worth every penny.

Remote work revealed that core areas of San Francisco and other cities are overreliant on offices. It’s time to reimagine what—and who—downtowns are for.

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Sources: Lagos-based Sabi, which provides a marketplace, inventory management tools, and more to Africa’s SMEs, raised a $38M Series B at a $300M valuation  —  Sabi, a Lagos-based B2B e-commerce startup providing digital commerce infrastructure to Africa’s informal economy …

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: Tejay Fletcher, the mastermind behind phone number spoofing service iSpoof, which scammed victims out of ~£100M, is sentenced to over 13 years in a UK prison  —  The mastermind behind a global “spoofing shop” that scammed victims out of as much as £100 million ($124 million) …

The wet-to-dry flat iron is an investment, but the time it saves you and your arms is worth every penny.

A simple mechanical system built from aluminium rods uses vibrations to encode information, mimicking quantum computing in a non-quantum system

Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK court throws out a case against Google concerning the transfer of 1.6M patients’ data by an NHS trust to DeepMind in 2015 and its alleged misuse  —  Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant […]

As the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow.

The shrine of Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa is a spectacular mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan. Also known as the “Green Mosque” due to the brilliant color of its tiled and painted dome, the intricately decorated building dates to the 16th century. If it were more accessible, the Green Mosque would attract many visitors. But Balkh is […]

Warming waters in the Pacific can trigger droughts, wildfires, and extreme rainfall around the world, potentially leading to $3 trillion in losses in the coming years.

From Parasite to Moonage Daydream, here are our favorite movies on the streaming service.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia debuts the $299 GeForce RTX 4060, its cheapest 40-series card, and $499 RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, available in July; the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB ships on May 24 for $399  —  Nvidia has officially announced its RTX 4060 family of GPUs.  This includes the RTX 4060 Ti, which will […]

New York Times: A group of five TikTok creators sue to overturn Montana’s law that is set to ban the app starting January 1, 2024, citing the First Amendment and more  —  A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the […]

Your inactive profiles, like Gmail or Docs, could turn into digital dust later this year. A few clicks can save them.

In tests with a rat, the e-skin patch conveyed touch and pressure signals to the brain, prompting the animal to move its muscles

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter increases its video upload limits for Blue subscribers from one hour and 2GB to two hours and 8GB, but the maximum resolution remains at 1080p  —  Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit.

Used diapers could be a source of building materials, as they can be recycled to replace the sand normally used in concrete

Six individuals have received the James A. and Ruth Levitan Teaching Award for 2023. The award, given annually by the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), honors superlative teachers across the school, who have been nominated by MIT students. The 2023 winners are: Nicholas Ackert in the Department of Political Science, Nilma […]

MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver is ready to travel virtually anywhere in the world! A new app developed by MIT undergraduate Daniel Portela lets individuals place virtual Tim anywhere they are using just their phone’s camera and web browser. Portela developed the web application as part of his Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project at […]

Whether you are a new employee, a gymnast, or a bendy straw manufacturer, one trait is ideal across the board: flexibility. The same can now be said about prototyping electronic devices. While designers typically test out their designs on “breadboards,” or thin plastic boards that can hold together electronic components, they are often stiff and […]

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