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The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is taller than a car, has as many pixels as 266 iPhones and will, over the course of the next 10 years, help researchers study billions of galaxies

If the crypto enthusiasts are right, the next decade will see billions of people begin using applications built off distributed, user-owned blockchains. The new paradigm has been dubbed Web 3. But Web 3 still has some significant challenges to overcome if it’s going to replace the digital world as we know it. Blockchain networks, for […]

Analyzing the genetic mutations linked with diseases such as cancer has yielded many potential drug targets. However, a significant number of these proteins are considered “undruggable,” mainly because their structure is too floppy for any kind of small-molecule drug to bind to it. Angela Koehler, an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT, has made […]

Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: Apple reports a record $11.5B in Mac revenue for Q4, up 25% YoY, and sets “a quarterly record for upgraders”, but expects a YoY decline in Q1 2023  —  Mac sales were strong during Apple’s September quarter amid a declining PC market, but the company expects Mac revenue to slow down […]

These are some of our favorite stands, cases, keyboards, and Pencils no matter which iPad you have.

Load up your iPhone 14, iPhone 13, or iPhone 12 with a wallet, power bank, or even a webcam mount.

Get cameras, headphones, and powerful laptops before Halloween even arrives.

Yousef Saba / Reuters: Classera, a San Francisco-based ed tech startup focused on the Middle East and Africa, raised a $40M Series A led by Sanabil, which is run by Saudi Arabia’s PIF  —  Classera, an education technology company headquartered in San Francisco, said on Thursday it had raised $40 million from investors …

Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: Global smartphone shipments fell 12% YoY to 301M units in Q3 2022, the lowest Q3 level since 2014; Apple was the only top-five brand to grow YoY, up 2%  —  – The global smartphone market declined by 12% YoY even as it grew by 2% QoQ to reach 301 […]

A flying robot can be used to scare away flocks of birds in fields. RobotFalcon resembles a peregrine falcon in size, shape and colouration.

Frank Sidney Jones, professor emeritus in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), passed away on Aug. 28 at the age of 93. In 1971, Jones was named Ford Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, becoming the first African American to be tenured at MIT. He also taught courses in civil engineering. From his […]

On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM ’19, PhD ’22 was named the first-place winner in the graduate category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition. The annual competition, which is organized by the National Inventors Hall of Fame, celebrates college and university student inventors. Jayaprakash won for his pesticide innovation AgZen-Cloak, which he […]

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Four traps that hold leaders back.

How firms can fight the temptation.

Nivedita Balu / Reuters: Shopify reports Q3 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.4B, above $1.34B estimates, and GMV grew 11% YoY to $46.2B; shares jump 7%+  —  Shopify Inc (SHOP.TO) beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, as businesses stuck to the Canadian online services provider’s tools and payment options to scale up.

It’s the miracle material that makes cars, computers, and modern medicine possible. It has also corrupted every corner of the environment.

This week, we list all the ways plastic is ruining our planet and making us sick, then come up with some ideas for reversing the damage.

Industry players are working on standardized swappable batteries that could shake up everything from garden trimmers to EV rickshaws.

Yonhap News Agency: South Korean prosecutors indict four current and former Samsung employees over allegedly stealing and leaking semiconductor tech to overseas companies  —  Prosecutors have indicted four current and former employees of electronics giant Samsung Group on charges of stealing highly valued …

Rest of World: Didi, Kuaishou, Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese tech companies are expanding in Latin America and poaching talent from each other, as competition intensifies  —  These young employees are so coveted that Chinese tech companies are quick to poach each other’s talent.  —  • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

AI image generators, which create fantastical sights at the intersection of dreams and reality, bubble up on every corner of the web. Their entertainment value is demonstrated by an ever-expanding treasure trove of whimsical and random images serving as indirect portals to the brains of human designers. A simple text prompt yields a nearly instantaneous […]

On Sept. 13, MIT AgeLab co-hosted a celebration honoring the 10th anniversary of Boston Bridge, a nonprofit professional development organization in the field of aging with a longtime AgeLab association. Since its founding in 2012, AgeLab has been affiliated with Boston Bridge, an interdisciplinary program that works with business, government, and nongovernmental organizations to improve […]

Your anti-malware software may not work if you upgraded to the new operating system. But Apple says a fix is on the way.

Han Chen / Axios: Report: US state and local governments kept buying Chinese telecom equipment despite a federal-level ban; only five states have rules to limit such purchases  —  Despite federal efforts to block Chinese telecom equipment from U.S. supply chains, state and local governments across …

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Leaked data from TheTruthSpy stalkerware network reveals its Android apps tracked the calls, locations, and other information of hundreds of thousands of people  —  Leaked data reveals the apps tracked locations and recorded calls of Americans  —  A massive cache of leaked data reveals …

The suspected Chinese influence operation had limited success. But it signals a growing threat from a new disinformation adversary.

People with Android phones got a notification that a trembler was about to rock Silicon Valley. WIRED looks at the tech behind that feat.

Jon Victor / The Information: Andy Rubin incorporated home security monitoring software startup Simple Things in July 2020 and appears to have hired staff from his defunct startup Essential  —  Andy Rubin is planning his next act.  —  The former Google executive, who received a $90 million severance package following …

Artificial intelligence models can outperform humans at tasks AIs normally struggle with if they are told to think a certain way, but it doesn’t help them grasp sarcasm

In 2019, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, launched a $1 billion philanthropic commitment to identify global talent. Part of that effort is the Rise initiative, which selects 100 young scholars, ages 15-17, from around the world who show unusual promise and a drive to serve others. This year’s cohort of 100 […]

As America’s largest investment to fight climate change, the Inflation Reduction Act positions the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. But as it edges the United States closer to achieving its international climate commitment, the legislation is also expected to yield significant — and more immediate […]

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The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored a number of individuals with ties to MIT with prizes and awards for their contributions to physics. They include: Institute Professor Arup Chakraborty; associate professors Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz and Lina Necib; Yuan Cao SM ’16 PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and several […]

Sharing your ideas is critical to boosting your profile at work — but so is picking the right moment.

Tools such as 3D printing, simulations, and AI are changing the calculation of labor costs.

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: A profile of Delaware Chancery Court judge Kathaleen McCormick, who is overseeing the Elon Musk-Twitter dispute, ahead of the Friday deadline to close the deal  —  Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware’s Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter.

Tom Warren / The Verge: An interview with Panos Panay and other Microsoft executives on creating the Surface lineup, difficulties along the way, failed products, and future plans  —  Microsoft looks to the future of redefining personal computers once again  —  In the weeks before the first Surface tablet was announced …

Across the country, people are struggling to fill their prescriptions. And with the government’s lack of concern, this deficit could turn deadly.

Florida’s storms unleashed deadly vibrio bacteria in their wake. They’ll be a growing threat as the world gets warmer and wetter.

The Defender Guard Pro stores your footage locally and delivers clear video—and you can do it all on a budget.

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based Trigo Vision, a cashierless checkout startup working with Tesco, Aldi, and others, raised $100M co-led by Temasek and 83North  —  An Israeli startup making technology for cashier-free payment at brick-and-mortar stores has raised $100 million.

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Tote your photo and video gear around in style. We tested more than 60 packs and rounded up our favorites.

To combat the scourge of bots and fake accounts, the dating site will ask users to prove their humanity by capturing a video selfie.

Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta says Apple’s updated App Store rules requiring developers to use IAPs for sales of “boosts” in social media apps undercuts others in the digital economy  —  Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn’t get more hostile, here we are.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Satya Nadella says more than 20M people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, double the 10M figure that Microsoft shared in April 2022  —  More than 20 million people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday during the company’s first-quarter fiscal 2023 earnings […]

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Alphabet’s “Other Bets” had a Q3 operating loss of $1.61B, up from $1.29B YoY, on revenue of $209M, up from $182M YoY  —  Alphabet today announced Q3 2022 earnings with $69.1 billion in revenue.  These numbers range from July to September with the fiscal year almost coming to a close.

Mitochondria — the organelles responsible for energy production in human cells — were once free-living organisms that found their way into early eukaryotic cells over a billion years ago. Since then, they have merged seamlessly with their hosts in a classic example of symbiotic evolution, and now rely on many proteins made in their host cell’s […]

After removing images generated by artificial intelligence models from its archives last month, Shutterstock is now going to sell ones created exclusively by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 AI