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It’s all about generating content — from consumers, creators, and celebrities.

Connecting existing systems that track applicants, onboard employees, and monitor performance can help improve your team’s productivity and performance.

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Microsoft appears to be injecting ads for Edge on a Google.com website when users download Chrome using the latest Edge Canary preview on Windows  —  Microsoft sees its browser as an important aspect and entry point for the new Bing.  Microsoft Edge on Windows is now showing a rather aggrieve ad […]

Vishal Chawla / The Block: Google Cloud partners with the Tezos Foundation to become a validator on the proof-of-stake Tezos blockchain, seeking to help clients develop and deploy apps  —  – Google Cloud has partnered with Tezos to act as a validator on the proof-of-stake blockchain network.

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to ~$4.8B, beating estimates, net income up 189% YoY to ~$718M, iQiyi revenue up 3% YoY to ~$1.1B, and a $5B share buyback  —  Baidu Inc. announced a $5 billion share buyback after reporting better-than-expected revenue, reflecting how its cloud computing service …

Imagine using an online banking app to deposit money into your account. Like all information sent over the internet, those communications could be corrupted by noise that inserts errors into the data. To overcome this problem, senders encode data before they are transmitted, and then a receiver uses a decoding algorithm to correct errors and […]

The congealed mat of yeast and bacteria cells that forms on top of the brewed drink kombucha could be used to make light, cheap and flexible circuit boards for wearable electronics or even partially living rudimentary computers

Theodore Schleifer / Puck: Sources: the US DOJ’s Public Integrity Section is looking into possible campaign-finance violations by Sam Bankman-Fried or his associates  —  An elite unit of the Department of Justice has taken an interest in the political side of the FTX case, raising the possibility of more indictments to come.

Large law firms are using a tool made by OpenAI to research and write legal documents. What could go wrong?

Science wants to solve the problem of evil but some of the most mainstream concepts are little more than folklore.

Mark Zuckerberg has a new subscription service for Instagram and Facebook. That blue check mark looks awfully familiar.

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 75% YoY to $629M, vs. $590M est., a $557M net loss, and 8.3M monthly transacting users, vs. 8.22M est. and down from 8.5M in Q3  —  – Coinbase reported fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday.  — The crypto exchange reported $629 million in net revenue […]

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: YouTube Music rolls out a redesigned radio feature, allowing users to pick up to 30 artists when creating a station, apply filters to change the mood, and more  —  Almost every music streaming service on the market offers a radio feature, allowing you to create an automatically generated playlist around a […]

Phosphorus is an essential ingredient in thousands of products, including herbicides, lithium-ion batteries, and even soft drinks. Most of this phosphorus comes from an energy-intensive process that contributes significantly to global carbon emissions. In an effort to reduce that carbon footprint, MIT chemists have devised an alternative way to generate white phosphorus, a critical intermediate […]

E.G. (a pseudonym) is an accomplished woman in her early 60s: She is a college graduate and has an advanced professional degree. She has a stellar vocabulary — in the 98th percentile, according to tests — and has mastered a foreign language (Russian) to the point that she sometimes dreams in it. She also has, […]

Almost 2.8 million lane-miles, or about 4.6 million lane-kilometers, of the United States are paved. Roads and streets form the backbone of our built environment. They take us to work or school, take goods to their destinations, and much more. However, a new study by MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) researchers shows that the annual […]

Ten questions to help you help them — without micromanaging.

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A conversation with Harvard Medical School’s Carol Kauffman on responding more effectively.

A new kind of “edgeless” engineered tissue can fit any irregular shape, paving the way for hand and face grafts that look and move better.

Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica: Sony rolls out its GT Sophy AI to Gran Turismo 7, an experiment announced in February 2022, letting players race against Sophy in GT Sophy Race Together mode  —  GT Sophy beat the world’s best players in 2022; now you can race it yourself.  —  Last year, Sony AI […]

Powered by obsessed film buffs, it’s a crowdsourced juggernaut that’s older than Google and Wikipedia. Now AI is threatening to steal the starring role.

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Meta plans to update its TOS for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users in the UK and will begin moving those users from its Irish subsidiary to US agreements  —  Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company’s Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move […]

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon’s stock decline over the past year has roiled its stock-heavy compensation plans, causing pay in 2023 to drop by 15%-50% below Amazon’s targets  —  Stock-heavy compensation plan means employees to receive 15% to 50% below projected pay targets

An artificial intelligence can identify sites of Mesopotamian remains with 80 per cent accuracy – it could help archaeologists quickly work out where to dig

Heat causes errors in the qubits that are the building blocks of a quantum computer, so quantum systems are typically kept inside refrigerators that keep the temperature just above absolute zero (-459 degrees Fahrenheit). But quantum computers need to communicate with electronics outside the refrigerator, in a room-temperature environment. The metal cables that connect these […]

Imagine sitting in a packed stadium for a pivotal football game — tens of thousands of people are using mobile phones at the same time, perhaps video chatting with friends or posting photos on social media. The radio frequency signals being sent and received by all these devices could cause interference, which slows device performance […]

Twitter is disabling SMS-based two-factor authentication. Switch to these alternatives to keep your account safe.

Electrical stimulation applied to the spinal cord temporarily restored arm and hand movement in two patients.

It’s George Washington’s birthday, and he wants you to have a robot vacuum. These deals are perfect for gearing up for spring.

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Preqin data: VC firms raised $20.6B in new funds in Q4 2022, down 65% YoY and the lowest Q4 amount since 2013; LPs backed 226 funds, the fewest in Q4 since 2012  —  Slowdown that earlier hit tech startups catches up with investors who fuel venture capital  —  Fundraising […]

Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: TrendForce: DRAM’s average price fell 31.4% in Q3 and 34.4% in Q4 2022, among the worst drops since 2006; Samsung plans to spend $30B+ in 2023 to grow capacity  —  The memory chip industry is going through a historic decline in demand, with two of the worst quarterly drops on record […]

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: London-based quantum computing startup Quantum Motion has raised £42M led by Bosch Ventures  —  U.K. quantum computing company Quantum Motion has raised £42 million ($50.5 million) in an equity round of funding led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC), with participation from Porsche …

The memory of a “blind” artificial intelligence that has been crossing a room contains information that can help another AI reach a destination faster. This memory transference could improve the navigation of robots

Inside the cultural turnaround that helped the tech giant think like a startup.

Job expectations and responsibilities were misaligned in one out of three job specs, according to an analysis of 185 open C-suite roles.

In Alaska, people are flocking to buy electric appliances instead of fuel-guzzling furnaces, as oil prices soar and temperatures plummet.

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Decentralized wireless communication network Helium plans to move to Solana on March 27 after 81% of its community voted in favor of migration in September 2022  —  Decentralized wireless communication network Helium will entirely shift to the Solana blockchain by March 27 …

This new lab experiment explores the physics involved in our star’s tumultuous interior regions—by creating a sphere of plasma.

In Indonesia, sickness and pollution plague a sprawling factory complex that supplies the world with crucial battery materials.

Wall Street Journal: A look at Meta’s “The Cube”, a cubicle made of felt-like recycled PET plastic that absorbs sound and blocks distractions, rolling out to Meta’s offices globally  —  The Facebook and Instagram parent needed a new setup for the loud hybrid workplace.  Here’s a first look at the quieter cubicle.

Financial Times: The disappearance of China Renaissance’s Bao Fan, coming as Beijing eases its tech crackdown, casts a chill across China’s tech sector and worries executives  —  In May 2021, a group of Chinese banks agreed to lend $300mn to investment bank China Renaissance with a condition: if Bao Fan …

All-in on Google services? Then check out our favorite Chrome OS laptops and 2-in-1 tablets for school, work, or home.

Bloomberg: Sources: KKR-owned BMC Software confidentially filed for a US IPO seeking a valuation of up to $15B; KKR acquired BMC in 2018 for $8.3B  —  BMC Software, a technology company owned by KKR & Co., has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: A look at the use of conversational AI in US call centers, which some agents find helpful and others say leaves the humans with more complex, intense workloads  —  Call centers are at the forefront of deploying artificial intelligence, with bots that automate basic tasks and instruct humans how […]

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Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats.

Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: Meta rolls out its Meta Verified subscription service, offering a blue badge, impersonation protection, and more, for $12/month on the web or $15/month on iOS  —  Good morning and new product announcement: this week we’re starting to roll out Meta Verified — a subscription service that lets …

This new technology offers an opportunity to free animals from exploitation. So why are some vegans opposed to it?

Financial Times: Research: total USD invested in Chinese startups fell by ~75% in 2022; 19% of the total capital put into Chinese startups was in USD, compared to 39% in 2021  —  The country’s newest crop of technology companies is more likely to list at home rather than in the US