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For years, the platform has funded a project that’s meant to create a better, decentralized online experience. Now Twitter’s new owner will decide its future.

Kate Irwin / Decrypt: Meta is letting select Instagram US creators test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won’t charge fees until 2024  —  Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store […]

Josh Sisco / Politico: Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to open an in-depth probe into Adobe’s $20B takeover of Figma and has been contacting customers, competitors, and investors  —  The DOJ’s investigation is the latest sign of heavy scrutiny on tech dealmaking.  —  The Justice Department is preparing to open …

Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough.

Give your favorite explorer a present they’ll cherish forever, from hardcore camp stoves to tiny tents for their cat.

An retrofitted Black Hawk helicopter flew autonomously between mountains to deliver blood supplies in a simulated mission. It also picked up a simulated medical casualty

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Qualcomm expects to provide modem chips for the “vast majority” of iPhones in 2023, retaining its current foothold after previously planning to supply ~20%  —  Qualcomm Inc. will continue to provide the modem chips for the “vast majority” of iPhones in 2023 …

Birdwatch, an attempt to tackle misinformation on Twitter by providing additional context to false claims in tweets, appears to be working – but the project may no longer be a priority under Elon Musk’s leadership

Taiwan is where most of the world’s high-tech chips are made. Demand for the components is increasing, as is the associated environmental cost

Many organizations fail to adequately prepare leaders for — or support them in — this critical part of the job.

One of the most notable climate change provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act is the first U.S. federal tax on a greenhouse gas (GHG). That the fee targets methane (CH4), rather than carbon dioxide (CO2), emissions is indicative of the urgency the scientific community has placed on reducing this short-lived but powerful gas. Methane […]

Cancer is characterized by a number of key biological processes known as the “hallmarks of cancer,” which remodel cells and their immediate environment so that tumors can form, grow, and thrive. Many of these changes are mediated by specific genes and proteins, working in tandem with other cellular processes, but the specifics vary from cancer […]

Applying these to key decision points will help you hire, develop, and retain talent more equitably.

A simple approach to boost customers’ visibility into how a garment was made.

The company says the Apple Watch’s ovulation-tracking tech isn’t birth control. But the public doesn’t necessarily know how to use that information safely.

Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky.

Certain Pantone collections now require users to pay $15 a month to access them—with colors turned black unless you pay up.

Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: China’s Zhengzhou industrial park, where Foxconn makes iPhones, begins a weeklong lockdown to counteract the “severe and complicated” spread of COVID-19  —  HONG KONG—The industrial park where Foxconn Technology Group’s iPhone assembly plant is struggling to maintain production amid …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Redwood City-based Alation, which helps crawl and search enterprise databases, raised a $123M Series E at a $1.7B valuation, bringing its total funding to $340M  —  There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations.

The world’s largest digital camera has a sensor resolution the same as 266 iPhones

Raksha Kumar / Rest of World: A look at the everyday sexism faced by Indian women working in tech; around 36% of India’s 5M tech workers are women, of which 7% hold executive-level positions  —  Tech helped more Indian women join the workforce, but they’re still fighting to be treated equally.

Neural networks, a type of computing system loosely modeled on the organization of the human brain, form the basis of many artificial intelligence systems for applications such speech recognition, computer vision, and medical image analysis. In the field of neuroscience, researchers often use neural networks to try to model the same kind of tasks that […]

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Rewind, whose Mac app creates a searchable recording to help users find what they’ve seen, said, or heard, raised a $10M seed led by a16z at a $75M valuation  —  Apple’s M1 and M2 chips give Optimizely co-founder a key in  —  While there have been quite a few attempts to […]

Capable of operating almost 7 miles down, the titanium Deepsea Challenge takes the watch world’s battle for diver supremacy to new depths.

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: Match Group reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to $810M, vs. $793M est., paying users up 2% YoY to 16.5M, and plans Hinge and The League investments; stock jumps 15%+  —  Company plans to focus on ‘targeted, high-returning investments’ in Hinge and The League next year while monitoring headcount and marketing […]

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Dropbox says hackers stole code and some API keys from 130 GitHub repositories via a phishing campaign, but its core apps and infrastructure were unaffected  —  Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub …

Rita Anoh’s first exposure to college-level research was not something she recognized as a path she could follow. While in high school, the daughter of Anoh’s Advanced Placement biology teacher presented a poster to her class about what she was working on in graduate school. “At the time, actually, it did not click to me […]

Voters need to pay attention to races up and down the ballot — especially to more obscure county-level contests — to protect democracy, panelists said during an Oct. 12 discussion titled “Why the 2022 Elections May Determine the Future of Democracy in the U.S.” While national and congressional races get the most attention, voters may […]

Ukraine has used drones in innovative ways throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, and may now be preparing to deploy machines capable of finding and attacking targets without direct human control

An AI has been used to train robot dogs to toss cups into a garbage can or wipe a whiteboard with an eraser while cutting out hand-coding, which makes them one-tenth the usual cost

Artificial Intelligence trains low-cost robot dog to perform tasks previously achievable by machines ten times more expensive

Proactively addressing burnout will boost retention and performance.

Using an approach based on CRISPR proteins, MIT researchers have developed a new way to precisely control the amount of a particular protein that is produced in mammalian cells. This technique could be used to finely tune the production of useful proteins, such as the monoclonal antibodies used to treat cancer and other diseases, or […]

How did the Nobel laureate plan her time and navigate her life choices to leave a lasting impact on the world?

Surveys, interviews, observation, and other tools can help you avoid “one-size-fits-none” policies.

Henry Cavill is getting back into the cape, and James Gunn and Peter Safran now control the studio. Here’s how they can bring the Man of Steel back to life.

WIRED sat down with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer and Worlds’s Edge Studio chief Michael Mann to talk about AoE and everything real-time strategy.

The US government is funding tech to determine whether genetic alterations in a virus or pest are an evolutionary quirk—or a lab-engineered danger.

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Uber reports Q3 revenue rose 72% YoY to $8.34B, beating $8.1B estimates, as gross bookings rose 26% YoY to $29.1B, including $13.7B from Uber Eats  —  Uber Technologies Inc. reported revenue that beat analysts’ expectations, fueled by a recovery in driver supply that supported increased ridership …

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sony reports PlayStation Plus subscribers declined to 45.4M in Q2, down from 47.3M in Q1, and PlayStation Network MAUs dropped to 102M in Q2 from 103M in Q1  —  PlayStation Plus subscribers have dropped by nearly 2 million users since the revamped service launched in June.

New York Times: After a slow start, Donald Trump’s Truth Social has passed Gab, Parler, and other right-wing social media in unique visitors, largely due to Trump posting  —  The right-wing social network faces two federal investigations and an uncertain financial future.  But it has still managed to outpace its rivals.

Fusion, which promises practically unlimited, carbon-free energy using the same processes that power the sun, is at the heart of a worldwide research effort that could help mitigate climate change. A multidisciplinary team of researchers is now bringing tools and insights from machine learning to aid this effort. Scientists from MIT and elsewhere have used […]

Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the cavernous sanctuary of a massive, stone cathedral. The sound a cathedral-goer will hear is affected by many factors, including the location of the organ, where the listener is standing, whether any columns, pews, or other obstacles stand between them, what the walls are made […]

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: GameStop officially launches its NFT marketplace on ImmutableX blockchain, allowing users to access Web3 games currently being built on ImmutableX  —  The marketplace’s official release on the layer 2 blockchain platform is the result of a partnership that’s been months in the making.

Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt: Anchorage Digital plans to custody a “significant portion” of Apollo Global’s crypto portfolio and offer crypto custody services to Apollo’s clients  —  The private equity giant that manages half a trillion dollars will use Anchorage for institutional crypto custody.

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This projector might be easy to set up and use, but it comes at a hefty price.

The creators of this $129 headset want to make mixed reality accessible—and affordable—for more users.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple’s VP of online retail Anna Matthiasson is leaving the company, to be replaced by Karen Rasmussen; CIO Mary Demby is retiring after three decades  —  Apple Inc.’s top executives in charge of its online retail store and information-systems divisions are stepping down …

MIT condensed matter theory professors of physics Liang Fu and Patrick A. Lee received the inaugural Larkin Awards in Theoretical Physics, awarded by the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota. Fu received the 2022 Anatoly Larkin Award for a junior researcher for his work on 3D topological insulators and odd-parity topological […]