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The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT has announced that the investigative series “Big Poultry,” published by The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News & Observer, has been chosen as the 2023 winner of the Victor K. McElheny Award for local and regional journalism. This series of articles uncovered the wide-ranging, unregulated impact of the […]

Each year, MIT’s School of Engineering gives the Junior Bose Award to a junior faculty member who has made outstanding contributions as an educator. The award is given to a member of faculty who is up for promotion from assistant professor to associate professor without tenure. The 2023 Junior Bose Award has been given to […]

E-liability accounting has helped a Singapore-based tire manufacturer and a German cement producer reduce their emissions.

It offers new opportunities for interactivity, personalization, and adventure.

The new season of Coaching Real Leaders dives deep into leadership challenges around leading through layoffs, accomplishing your goals, and more.

Researchers say viruses can kill antibiotic-resistant microbes and help treat infections. Regulators have to figure out how to get them on the market.

An agency database WIRED obtained reveals widespread use of so-called 1509 summonses that experts say raises the specter of potential abuse.

Dan Seifert / The Verge: Unlike most boring modern laptops, Framework’s repairable, sustainable, and upgradeable models are exciting, harking back to the early 2000s era of computing  —  It’s not often that I get too excited about new laptops these days.  Modern laptops are extremely capable devices, with few glaring flaws.

As more characters enter the public domain, it’s important that creators use them. Next up: Mickey Mouse.

Yana Gaur / Reuters: Western Digital discloses a network security incident, taking some systems offline, and says the hacker obtained internal data but the scope is so far unknown  —  Data storage devices maker Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) on Monday said it is looking into a network security incident …

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Research: Israeli tech startups raised $1.7B in Q1 2023, the lowest since 2018, weighed down by a global slowdown and protests over a proposed judicial overhaul  —  Investment in Israeli tech companies has dropped to the lowest quarterly rate in nearly five years, a result of the global downturn …

Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately identify an object after grasping it just one time. Many robotic hands pack all their powerful sensors into the fingertips, so an object must be in full contact with those fingertips to be identified, which can […]

If you’ve ever played soccer with a robot, it’s a familiar feeling. Sun glistens down on your face as the smell of grass permeates the air. You look around. A four-legged robot is hustling toward you, dribbling with determination.  While the bot doesn’t display a Lionel Messi-like level of ability, it’s an impressive in-the-wild dribbling […]

We tested the latest and greatest gaming notebooks to sort the god rolls from the vendor fodder.

Whether you want to sleep through the party or rock out (safely) to your favorite band, these will help block out the noise.

Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: In a now deleted tweet, Elon Musk said verified accounts would get a “few weeks grace” but would lose their badges if “they tell they won’t pay now”  —  – The first day of Twitter’s previously announced axing of “legacy” verified checks nearly passed without incident.

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times’ main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet’s decision not to pay for Blue  —  The Times and other news organizations say they won’t pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.

New York Times: Sources: in November 2021, five days after Biden put NSO on a Commerce Dept. blacklist, a shell company acting as a front for the US gov’t licensed NSO software  —  The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How researchers, including at Meta’s AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition  —  Thought is ever-changing electrical patterns unconnected to individual neurons.  Meta is working on a system to read your mind.

Playing video games to deal with reality is nothing new, but this game about being an intern in Silicon Valley is perfect if you just need a laugh.

This expandable, modular power station can help you go off-grid and stay powered up during outages.

In three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But in higher dimensions, an infinite number of configurations are possible.

Our favorite zero-drop, minimalist footwear will let you feel the ground beneath your feet.

Plus: The library ebook app OverDrive is shutting down, Fitbit loses some social features, and we take a stroll on Amazon Sidewalk.

Plus: A major new supply chain attack, Biden’s spyware executive order, and a hacking campaign against Exxon’s critics.

Brianna Wessling / The Robot Report: Ocado wins AutoStore’s lawsuit after the UK High Court invalidated two of AutoStore’s warehouse automation patents for being publicly disclosed before filing  —  Yesterday, the UK High Court ruled that AutoStore’s patents, which have been the subject of a patent infringement case against Ocado …

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Lyft co-founders’ departures followed months of staff worries as the company’s market cap fell 85% to under $3.5B in two years, while Uber fared better  —  New CEO says he aims to boost employee morale and overhaul customer and driver experience  —  Tech Live: Lyft Co-Founder on Stock-Price Tumble, Autonomous Cars

New York Times: An investigation details how a Georgia man was wrongfully arrested based on a bad facial recognition match and other tech meant to make policing more effective  —  Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail …

Step into spring with these discounted outdoorsy gadgets.

Here’s what Google has planned for the next version of its mobile operating system.

In this nascent stage, there are opportunities for virtual worlds to avoid the mistakes of the past.

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Filing: the US government sold ~$216M of seized Silk Road BTC in March, part of the 50K BTC stolen by James Zhong, and plans to sell 41,490 BTC in four tranches  —  The government will sell the remaining 41,490 BTC in four tranches this year.  —  The U.S. government sold 9,861.17 […]

Chloe Xiang / VICE: A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after using an AI chatbot, which presented itself as an emotional being, for six weeks on an app called Chai  —  The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models.  —  Chloe Xiang

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Binance plans to keep the $985M+ BUSD it moved from its industry recovery fund, launched in November 2022 amid FTX’s collapse, in its corporate wallets  —  Founder and CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as “CZ”  —  In the wake of FTX’s collapse in November, the newly crowned kingpin of […]

Paul Sandle / Reuters: UK’s CMA drops a probe into Apple’s dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming after Apple successfully argued the CMA waited too long to launch the probe  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) won its appeal against the decision by Britain’s antitrust regulator to launch an investigation into its mobile browser …

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and some other celebrities with millions of followers say they won’t pay for Twitter Blue  —  April 1 is the dumbest day on the internet, and this year, it’s not just because brands will try to prank you by selling “hot iced coffee.”

From Cargo to Okja, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

Simple calculations, such as factoring low numbers, can be made by mixing together differently shaped strands of DNA

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global  —  The American cryptocurrency exchange said it was not “economically viable” to continue doing business in the United States.

An explosive filled with gaps can only detonate after a liquid is poured into it, which could make it unusually safe for transportation and storage

To secure a more sustainable and resilient future, we must take a careful look at the life cycle impacts of humanity’s most-produced building material: concrete. Carbon uptake, the process by which cement-based products sequester carbon dioxide, is key to this understanding. Hessam AzariJafari, the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub’s deputy director, is deeply invested in the […]

Biologics, a class of therapeutics derived from living organisms, offer enormous advantages to patients battling challenging diseases and disorders. Treatments based on biologics can boost the immune system to stem attacks from infections or target specific pathways to block the formation of tumors. “These drugs, which have been around for just the last 20 years, […]

With the release of platforms like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, diffusion generative models have achieved mainstream popularity, owing to their ability to generate a series of absurd, breathtaking, and often meme-worthy images from text prompts like “teddy bears working on new AI research on the moon in the 1980s.” But a team of researchers at […]

To determine where to invest resources, CX leaders should look at patterns of experience over time.

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Sometimes when you win, you also lose.

Nix’s wearable sensor promises to give cyclists and runners real-time hydration advice by analyzing their fluid loss while they work out.

The Apple TV+ movie is sleek but simplistic at times.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba’s strategy and engineered the split from overseas by telling executives it would make the company nimble  —  Globe-trotting billionaire, in calls to executives, used his influence to push company’s plans to split into six groups

It’s all the chaos and delight of playing a campaign with your friends, but onscreen.