Category: Uncategorized

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 […]

Conversations with experts about building the right culture for the new technology.

Our ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties.

Few organizations have the right tools, people, infrastructure, and processes to protect themselves.

This week, we talk to fitness writer Casey Johnston about getting strong, eating right, and feeling great.

Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$30B, ~$3.2B net income, up from a ~$2.6B loss in Q4 2022, and plans to spin off its cloud unit and take others public  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will begin exploring initial public offerings for its logistics and grocery arms …

Dominic Toretto and company have made millions at the box office by doing something no one else has pulled off: Making movies that are truly for the fans.

Polyester is in almost all of your clothing, and it’s almost impossible to recycle. Some innovators are looking beyond turning plastic bottles into fabric.

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Binance Australia can no longer offer Aussie dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, “our payment processor’s partner bank”, and warns of disruptions  —  The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access …

Washington Post: A survey of 70 cybersecurity experts: 64% favored reauthorization of FISA’s Section 702, set to expire at the end of 2023, with some kind of change  —  Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  It’s good to be back from Denver.  There, a 6-year-old repeatedly defeated me and/or incapacitated …

Hannah Gazdus has always been crafty. She started off simple, making things with cardboard and clay. As a kid growing up in the Red Bank area of New Jersey, she would sell bracelets on the beach to fund her LEGO purchases. “My favorite part of LEGOs were the extra pieces that you got in the […]

Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and producer Eiji Aonuma weigh in on Link’s stink, Ultrahand, and getting lost in the world they created.

Want some Lego flowers or a new Apple Watch? Check these deals out.

The USPS carries out warrantless surveillance on thousands of parcels every year. Lawmakers want it to end—right now.

CoinDesk: Grayscale says the US SEC warned that the Filecoin token meets the definition of a security and asked Grayscale to withdraw its Filecoin Trust application  —  Grayscale announced last month that the SEC suggested FIL might be a security.  —  CORRECTION (May 18, 2023, 00:25 UTC) …

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: Ovulation tracking app Premom agrees to pay $200K to settle with the FTC and state AGs for allegedly sharing user information with third parties without consent  —  The app allegedly shared sensitive user information with China-based companies known for privacy problems

The advent of generative artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT has prompted renewed calls for AI in health care, and its support base only appears to be broadening. The second annual MIT-MGB AI Cures Conference, hosted on April 24 by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (Jameel Clinic), saw its attendance nearly […]

Wall Street Journal: Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country’s first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024  —  Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation  —  Montana’s governor signed the country’s first bill that outright bans TikTok …

Paula Hammond, a leading innovator in nanotechnology and head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2023-2024 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor, was honored for her work designing novel polymers and nanomaterials, which have extensive applications in fields including medicine and energy. […]

Many of our body’s most important functions occur without our conscious knowledge, such as digestion, heartbeat, and breathing. These vital functions depend on the signals generated by the “interoceptive nervous system,” which enables the brain to monitor our internal organs and trigger responses that sometimes save our lives. One second you are breathing normally as […]

Managers should focus on helping employees maintain their passion over time — not just stoking it in the moment.

New services are using research data and anonymized medical records to identify ways to treat conditions that lack care guidelines.

Connecting a project to core principles — and explaining how it will benefit stakeholders — can spark the motivation required for success.

At a congressional hearing senators from both parties and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a new federal agency was needed to protect people from AI gone bad.

Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post: An investigation finds some US public housing agencies use surveillance cameras with facial recognition and AI to evict residents, sometimes for minor breaches  —  Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents …

Brands around the world are launching blasters with gaming modes, tactical display screens, and USB connectivity—all geared toward grown-ups.

Zoom did not set us free. But solidarity can strengthen the porous boundary between home and workplace.

Anna Tong / Reuters: A poll of 4,415 US adults finds 61% believe AI could threaten civilization and 66%+ are concerned over negative effects; 70% of Trump voters were concerned  —  The swift growth of artificial intelligence technology could put the future of humanity at risk, according to most Americans surveyed …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Entrepreneur Dean Drako raised $100M for video surveillance startup Eagle Eye and $92M for smart lock startup Brivo from Japanese security giant SECOM  —  Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo, two players in the world of physical cloud security — respectively video surveillance and access control systems …

To study ocean currents, scientists release GPS-tagged buoys in the ocean and record their velocities to reconstruct the currents that transport them. These buoy data are also used to identify “divergences,” which are areas where water rises up from below the surface or sinks beneath it. By accurately predicting currents and pinpointing divergences, scientists can […]

The Dark Ages were not entirely dark. Advances in agriculture and building technology increased Medieval wealth and led to a wave of cathedral construction in Europe. However, it was a time of profound inequality. Elites captured virtually all economic gains. In Britain, as Canterbury Cathedral soared upward, peasants had no net increase in wealth between […]

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Elon Musk says working from home is “morally wrong” when service workers still have to show up, calling tech workers the “laptop classes living in la-la-land”  —  – Elon Musk called Silicon Valley engineers a part of “laptop classes living in la-la land” …

Now’s your chance to score great deals on some of the best pots and pans on the market.