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CNBC: The US SEC charges Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, Akon, and other celebrities for promoting crypto tokens TRX and BTT without disclosing that they were compensated  —  – The SEC unveiled charges against diplomat Justin Sun for fraud and securities violations, while also charging celebrity backers including Jake Paul and Lindsay Lohan.

Haruko Wainwright, the Norman C. Rasmussen Career Development Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) and assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at MIT, grew up in rural Japan, where many nuclear facilities are located. She remembers worrying about the facilities as a child. Wainwright was only 6 at the time of the Chernobyl […]

The potential benefits are clear — but to realize them, service robots must be designed and implemented the right way.

Average crop yields in Africa are consistently far below those expected, and one significant reason is the prevalence of counterfeit seeds whose germination rates are far lower than those of the genuine ones. The World Bank estimates that as much as half of all seeds sold in some African countries are fake, which could help […]

Assuming that someone from a marginalized group has thicker skin is inherently insensitive and othering.

A study of 80,000 employees found that remote employees were 32% more likely than their in-office peers to feel anxious in the wake of news about layoffs.

An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.

Slack puts a paywall in front of features that Discord offers for free. Here’s how to make the leap—and keep your archive, too.

Meet the creators working to make sure that everyone can see themselves in the pages of their favorite stories.

Virginia Heffernan / Wired: Inside TSMC’s facilities in Taiwan, where Fab 18 makes a quintillion transistors for Apple every six months, and an interview with Chairman Mark Liu  —  As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at Balaji Srinivasan’s proposed $1M bitcoin bet, predicting one BTC will be worth $1M+ in 90 days, which makes little sense besides attracting attention  —  Credit Suisse  —  It is sometimes useful to think that the shareholders of a bank are not its owners; they are just renting it […]

New York Times: The US will find banning TikTok difficult due to its massive userbase, political ramifications, possible alienation of young voters, legal challenges, and more  —  The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company’s chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.

Robert “Bob” Metcalfe ’68, an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) research affiliate and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, has been awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for his invention of Ethernet. Often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize […]

QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2023, the organization announced today. The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; […]

It’s no secret that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has some incredible capabilities — for instance, the chatbot can write poetry that resembles Shakespearean sonnets or debug code for a computer program. These abilities are made possible by the massive machine-learning model that ChatGPT is built upon. Researchers have found that when these types of models become large […]

Doctored images of the former US president went viral on Twitter. These are the telltale signs that they aren’t what they seem.

Search giant Baidu’s Ernie Bot met online jeers and also faces the challenge of operating on a firewalled internet ruled by government censorship.

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Data leak site BreachForums says it plans to shut down following the arrest of alleged operator “Pompompurin” due to fear law enforcement has backdoor access  —  In an abrupt about-face, the new administrator of popular cybercriminal platform BreachForums said they plan to shut …

This SUV gets a winning design, advanced autonomous drive features, and a spaceship-level dash. So it’s a real shame it’s not coming to the US.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram is testing ads in search results, with plans for a global rollout in the coming months, and launches Reminder Ads, for opt-in reminders about events  —  Meta is introducing two new tools on Instagram designed to open up additional avenues for advertising as the company grapples with weak advertising demand.

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: GP Bullhound: European tech startups raised €30.5B in debt in 2022, up from €15.9B in 2021, as the global tech slump made raising new equity more difficult  —  European technology startups nearly doubled the amount of debt they took on last year, exposing them to the turmoil …

A cake has been 3D printed using seven simple ingredients blended into pastes. The result was a layered flavour that “hits you in different waves”

Google is now providing limited public access to its Bard AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Here’s what we know so far about what it can do and how to access it

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger gave an optimistic account of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing on Friday, telling an MIT audience that the ongoing expansion of his firm’s production capacity would bolster the company over the long term while giving the U.S. more economic and industrial security. “Everything digital runs on semiconductors,” Gelsinger said. “There is no digital […]

Three MIT-led teams are among 16 nationwide to receive funding awards to address sustainable materials for global challenges through the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program. Launched in 2019, the program targets solutions to especially compelling societal or scientific challenges at an accelerated pace, by incorporating a multidisciplinary research approach. “Solutions for today’s national-scale societal […]

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Three ways federal, state, and local governments can improve the accessibility and reach of their services.

A conversation with Duke Law’s Nita Farahany about the last frontier of privacy.

These stylish shades let you listen to music and come with a variety of lenses. But you better open up your wallet (and have a small head).

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A year after its Staten Island win, the Amazon Labor Union has endured setbacks and conflicts, including between president Chris Smalls and longtime organizers  —  Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal conflict.

Wyze makes affordable security cameras and video doorbells. Right now they’re even cheaper.

The hard electrodes inserted into the brain to treat Parkinson’s and paralysis damage the organ’s soft tissue. A new invention could change that.

James Vincent / The Verge: TikTok refreshes its Community Guidelines, expanding a section to cover “synthetic and manipulated media”, or deepfakes, as pressure from the US increases  —  As the prospect of a US TikTok ban continues to grow, the video app has refreshed its content moderation policies.

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple lobbied for changes to India’s labor law in the Tamil Nadu state, where Foxconn has its largest iPhone plant, to help expand local production  —  Apple Inc. is seeking changes in India’s labor laws as part of its effort to expand local production, and regional governments …

In the United States, an estimated 15 million tons of textiles end up in landfills or are burned every year. This waste, amounting to 85 percent of the textiles produced in a year, is a growing environmental problem. In 2022, Massachusetts became the first state to enact a law banning the disposal of textiles in […]

Lawmakers call for an investigation into the SVB collapse, fearing hostile foreign governments will use social media to manipulate markets.

Michael Kan / PCMag: Study: GPT models and related technologies could seriously affect ~19% of workers in the US, with higher-income jobs potentially facing greater exposure  —  Researchers examine how OpenAI’s GPT technology could affect the workforce, and find ‘the influence spans all wage levels …

Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew. This guide will make sure you can whip up tasty grub no matter where you end up.

The streaming giant gave an update on upcoming releases and why it’s (ahem) playing the long game.

An imaging technique has allowed researchers to record detailed three-dimensional video of small creatures, including ants, flies and zebrafish larvae

David Shepardson / Reuters: TikTok announces its video app has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M MAUs in August 2020; in September 2021, TikTok reported 1B+ MAUs globally  —  TikTok said on Monday the short-video sharing app now has 150 million monthly active users in the United States, up from 100 million it […]

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Maryland-based identity management startup Aembit launches its service on Monday and announces a $16.6M seed from Ballistic Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures  —  Aembit, a Maryland-based security startup that focuses on helping DevOps and security teams manage how federated workloads talk to each other …

A new research collaboration with The Bahrain Institute for Pearls and Gemstones (DANAT) will seek to develop advanced characterization tools for the analysis of the properties of pearls and to explore technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls. The three-year project will be led by Admir Mašić, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, […]

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the United States-led invasion of Iraq. Code-named “Operation Iraqi Freedom” by the George W. Bush administration, the goal was to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, topple Saddam Hussein, and remake Iraq into a democracy. Two decades later, U.S. troops are still on Iraqi soil and that nation is ravaged […]

“MIT is a place where dreams come true,” says César Terrer, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Here at MIT, Terrer says he’s given the resources needed to explore ideas he finds most exciting, and at the top of his list is climate science. In particular, he is interested in […]

Leaders often want to give workers autonomy, but struggle to give up control.

As technology becomes more powerful and affordable, your company is only limited by its imagination.

A study of 42 leveraged buyouts produced surprising findings that should guide policy reforms.

Universities boost revenue by partnering with unregulated, for-profit providers. But when a boot camp went bust, some students took the fall.

Yoshihiro Sato / Bloomberg: Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance data: chip exports to China and Hong Kong fell 31.3% YoY in February, the worst decline since 2009 and above January’s 27.1% fall  —  Taiwan’s exports of integrated circuit chips to China and Hong Kong fell for a fourth month in February as Washington-Beijing tensions simmer …