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This fall, the MIT School of Science welcomes seven new faculty to the departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Studies (EAPS); Mathematics; and Physics. Wanying Kang researches large-scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, and their effects on the climate of Earth and other planetary bodies. She hopes to bridge multiple geoscience fields by applying […]

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Ila Fiete, professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and director of the K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience Center. The SfN, the world’s largest neuroscience organization, announced […]

Over his long career as an electrochemist and professor, Donald Sadoway has earned an impressive variety of honors, from being named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2012 to appearing on “The Colbert Report,” where he talked about “renewable energy and world peace,” according to Comedy Central. What does he personally consider […]

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Even if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you.

To understand your customers’ expectations, look beyond your industry.

Disinformation researchers have spent years asking Twitter to remove toxic and fake posts. After Elon Musk’s staff cuts, there’s hardly anyone to talk to.

Pew Research Center: A survey of US teens on social media: 80% feel closer to friends and 71% like showing creativity; 59% are neutral on its overall impact; girls report more drama  —  Majorities of teens credit social media with strengthening their friendships and providing support while also noting the emotionally charged side of these […]

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British startup Shellworks is fed up with waste, so it created a vegan material that can be turned into fertilizer.

Tony Romm / Washington Post: Congress, slow to move on regulating crypto, becomes transfixed by FTX’s collapse, as lawmakers wonder if the crisis could have been prevented  —  The stunning collapse of the world’s third-largest exchange has forced lawmakers to reckon with the costs of legislative inaction

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Filings: TuSimple co-founder Mo Chen consolidates power, acquiring 59% of the voting stock, as the US investigates the self-driving trucking company  —  Federal authorities continue to investigate entity’s relationship with a Chinese startup tied to co-founder Mo Chen

The US regulatory body has signed off on Upside Foods’ cultivated meat—but the company is still figuring out how to make enough of it to sell.

Financial Times: The UK blocks the sale of Newport Wafer Fab to Nexperia, owned by China’s Wingtech, on national security grounds and orders Nexperia to divest 86% of Newport  —  Months of wrangling over chipmaker sees deal with China-owned company thwarted on national security grounds

Peter White / Deadline: Apple plans to launch its Major League Soccer Season Pass on February 1 for $15/month or $99/season and $13/month or $79/season for Apple TV+ subscribers  —  Apple has unveiled more plans for its launch of Major League Soccer (MLS).  —  The streamer has revealed the pricing and launch details …

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New research found pervasive use of tracking tech on substance-abuse-focused health care websites, potentially endangering users in a post-Roe world.

Companies such as IBM offer timeshare access to prototype quantum computers, but researchers have shown that they can access other users’ data on these machines

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Dell agrees to pay $1B to settle a shareholder lawsuit over a $23.9B stock conversion in 2018; investors alleged the transaction was billions below market value  —  Dell Technologies Inc. agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a shareholder lawsuit relating to a controversial 2018 stock conversion transaction.

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The Earth’s climate has undergone some big changes, from global volcanism to planet-cooling ice ages and dramatic shifts in solar radiation. And yet life, for the last 3.7 billion years, has kept on beating. Now, a study by MIT researchers in Science Advances confirms that the planet harbors a “stabilizing feedback” mechanism that acts over […]

On Nov. 10, MIT’s team of student coders made history by winning the globe’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest — the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the 45th world finals drew a live audience of over 1,600 viewers to the tense 12-problem competition, which featured […]

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At this year’s UN climate conference in Egypt, activists are unable to demonstrate without permission, limiting their ability to voice criticism of the COP.

The platform’s meltdown has shed light on the steep challenge of preserving social media data. But not everything is worth saving.

For years, potential therapies that attack this brain protein have failed to help patients in clinical trials. Now—surprisingly—a new drug shows promise.

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: An independent audit shows the Luna Foundation Guard spent $2.8B in crypto and Terraform Labs spent $613M trying to defend the UST stablecoin in May 2022  —  Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon dismissed similarities with the collapse of FTX.  —  Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) …

Reuters: A look at SBF’s desperate efforts to raise $7B+ from Sequoia, Apollo, TPG, the Saudis, and others; FTX’s internal accounting software hid FTX-Alameda transfers  —  As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked …

Politico: German, French, and Norwegian data authorities warn against Qatar’s World Cup app Hayya and infection-tracking app Ehteraz, citing privacy and security concerns  —  Two World Cup apps pose serious privacy and security risks, European privacy regulators say.

Supercomputers are expensive to buy and run, but connecting up lots of consumer Apple computers that contain M1 chips may be able to do the same job for less

Jay Peters / The Verge: Elon Musk says the new Twitter Blue will relaunch on November 29, “to make sure that it is rock solid”  —  Elon Musk says the new Twitter Blue, which lets you pay $7.99 per month for a blue verification check mark next to your name, will relaunch on November 29th.

There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $150 to $500—stood up to WIRED’s testing.

The Square Off Pro is an internet-connected board you can roll up to take anywhere—and to play with opponents around the world.

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Allison Johnson / The Verge: Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, promising 35% faster CPU performance, improved power efficiency, Wi-Fi 7 support, and up to 4.35x faster AI performance  —  Qualcomm has announced all the details of its next flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, with a focus on better and more efficient […]

Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: How India’s gig workers, tired of algorithms dictating their lives, are using Telegram to exchange cheap hacks on how to game the platforms to their advantage  —  Tired of the obscurity around black box algorithms that dictate their lives, India’s gig workers are coming up with jugaads to game […]

Artificial intelligences that turn text into video are making rapid progress, but are we ready for a world in which the authenticity of every video is in question?

Last year, MIT researchers announced that they had built “liquid” neural networks, inspired by the brains of small species: a class of flexible, robust machine learning models that learn on the job and can adapt to changing conditions, for real-world safety-critical tasks, like driving and flying. The flexibility of these “liquid” neural nets meant boosting […]

We know proper indoor ventilation is key to reducing the spread of Covid-19. Now, a study by MIT researchers finds that indoor relative humidity may also influence transmission of the virus. Relative humidity is the amount of moisture in the air compared to the total moisture the air can hold at a given temperature before […]

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This week, NASA will attempt to launch the Artemis I mission. Artemis I is an uncrewed test flight that will launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and send the Orion spacecraft around the moon and back to test the system and hardware extensively before future flights with astronauts. The first of several missions, Artemis […]

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amazon launches Amazon Clinic, a telehealth marketplace for third-party virtual consultants, available in 32 US states, months after shuttering Amazon Care  —  The ink is not yet dry on Amazon’s $4 billion acquisition of OneMedical, but in the meantime, the online services giant is making …

The team uses a secret technique to locate AlphaBay’s server. But just as the operation heats up, the agents have an unexpected run-in with their target.

The sprawling mass of suburbia has been a disaster for the environment. But now smaller, denser cities herald a renaissance in city living.

WIRED’s editor in chief mulls what lies in store for Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried, plus more thoughts on the past week’s headlines.

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Cerebras announces its Andromeda supercomputer, combining 16 wafer-sized WSE-2 chips to create 13.5M AI-optimized cores, available to customers and researchers  —  The world’s largest chip scales to new heights.  —  Image 1 of 2  —  Cerebras, the company that builds the world’s largest chip …

Matt Novak / Gizmodo: The New York Times’ bizarre SBF profile presents the disgraced founder through a gauzy lens, fails to challenge him, and gives him the benefit of the doubt  —  FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday, leaving reasonable people to wonder how a cryptocurrency platform founded in 2019 …