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The climate crisis may explain fights as disappearing ice fuels interspecies competition—with goats nearly always winning.

Charlotte Jee / MIT Technology Review: A look at the companies using AI to build tech that lets users talk to digital versions of deceased loved ones by video chat, text, phone, or voice assistants  —  Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve.  —  My parents don’t know that […]

Adnan Bhat / Rest of World: Experts: India’s TikTok clones like Moj and Josh have failed to replicate TikTok’s success, and Instagram and YouTube will take over India’s short-video segment  —  Creators are instead gravitating toward Instagram and YouTube, which may eventually be the winners in the Indian short-video segment.

Think Dungeons & Dragons, if it was designed by mental health pros. TTRPGs have carved out a safe space for gamers to grow and work through various issues.

With your work in one place and your friends in another, here are some ways to familiarize the office app a bit.

FinSMEs: Swift Navigation, which makes high-accuracy GNSS hardware for advanced driver-assistance systems, raised a $100M Series D, bringing its total funding to $200M+  —  Swift Navigation, a San Francisco, CA-based tech company redefining GNSS, ADAS and autonomy, industrial machine control …

“Divergent” author Veronica Roth’s new novel is about a young women coming to terms with the authoritarian regime that manipulated her.

A kerfuffle over Bayonetta voice actor Hellena Taylor’s pay reveals the often hollow structure of social media activism.

Welcome to your shiny new Google-powered smartphone. It will be up and ready in no time with these handy tips.

Bloomberg: Snap, which this week reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth ever, plans to close its San Francisco office, which “was lightly used” due to flexible work  —  Snap Inc., which is cutting costs and relying more on remote work, is closing its office in San Francisco …

Wall Street Journal: The US government often waives its own stock trading rules, letting federal officials invest in Amazon, Apple, Meta, and others affected by their agencies’ work  —  The U.S. has rules limiting federal officials’ stock-market investing.  They can be waived.  —  1x

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google is in talks to invest $200M+ into Toronto-based Cohere, which has raised $170M+ to let companies add NLP to chatbots and other tools  —  Cohere, which creates natural language processing software, also had talks with Nvidia about potential strategic investment  —  Which Photo Is Real?

The ways in which companies can create and capture value have changed profoundly. Most aren’t keeping up.

A milestone in the evolution of education in the supply chain field was reached at the end of September, with the one-millionth enrollment in the MITx MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management (SCM). The landmark number reflects both the success of the program and the changes transforming professional education as more learners turn to online […]

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by highlighting the honors, prizes, and medals won by faculty working in our academic departments, labs, and centers. The following faculty received awards in the 3rd quarter of 2022: […]

Skylar Dannhoff knew one thing: She did not want to be working alone. As an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University, she had committed to a senior project that often felt like solitary lab work, a feeling heightened by the pandemic. Though it was an enriching experience, she was determined to find a graduate school […]

Characteristics and behaviors typically associated with men are often rewarded and considered standard practice.

Is your company ready for the impact on its supply chains?

Callan Quinn / The Block: Telegram will launch auctions for its usernames via TON blockchain, following a TON auction for wallet usernames, some of which sold for $200K+  —  – The Telegram messaging app is soon to launch a username auction platform.  — Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels …

Endless vulnerabilities. Massive hacking campaigns. Slow and technically tough patching. It’s time to say goodbye to on-premise Exchange.

Samsung’s flagship soundbar is the first ever to feature wireless Dolby Atmos. And it sounds awesome.

A battery-powered motor lets you enjoy most of the benefits of biking, minus the sweat.

Lewis Maddison / TechRadar: AdGuard: EasyList, a community-run filter list used by popular ad blockers, is being throttled by the YuZu browser; many ad blockers cannot download updates  —  Access to popular filter list is being throttled  —  Audio player loading…  EasyList has been hit with a burst of highly unusual traffic …

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Apple sues Masimo, says the medical tech company “carefully studied Apple’s IP” during its patent-infringement suit against Apple in order to make its W1 watch  —  Apple Inc sued medical technology company Masimo Corp in Delaware federal court on Thursday, accusing its new W1 line …

Incoming MIT President Sally Kornbluth greeted members of the Institute community at a campus event on Thursday afternoon, outlining her vision and values, and thanking everyone for the reception she has enjoyed. “The warmth and welcome I’ve received from all of you at MIT has been incredible,” said Kornbluth, speaking to a large audience in […]

Keep your phone, tablet, laptop, and other electronics running with these handheld power banks.

Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest: Microsoft publishes a Windows Subsystem for Android roadmap including Android 13, file transfer support, picture-in-picture, and local network access  —  Microsoft has been rolling out several updates for the Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 11.  The WSA is now significantly faster …

Bloomberg: Sources: the US is exploring the possibility of new export controls that would limit China’s access to quantum computing technology and AI software  —  The Biden administration is exploring the possibility of new export controls that would limit China’s access to some of the most powerful …

The internet service tool was essential in the early days of the war with Russia. But the caprices of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have exposed dangerous flaws.

In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game and ends up in a disturbing London 60 years later. William Gibson’s 2014 sci-fi thriller The Peripheral is so stuffed with ideas it will need seasons to unpack

A device that uses differences in temperature to levitate could keep small sensors floating indefinitely in the stratosphere, such as for monitoring the weather

Washington Post: Docs: if Elon Musk buys Twitter, he plans to cut nearly 75% of staff; otherwise, Twitter aims to cut payroll by ~$800M by the end of 2023, ousting ~25% of staff  —  Previously unreported details shed new light on Twitter’s motivations for selling the company — and Elon Musk’s plans to transform it

Splitting data into a spectrum of colour packets has enabled a single computer chip to transmit a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable

Ask a smart home device for the weather forecast, and it takes several seconds for the device to respond. One reason this latency occurs is because connected devices don’t have enough memory or power to store and run the enormous machine-learning models needed for the device to understand what a user is asking of it. […]

Wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, but a mask’s effectiveness depends on how well it fits. Currently, there are no simple ways to measure the fit of a mask, but a new sensor developed at MIT could make it much easier to ensure a good fit. The sensor, […]

The most valuable data is the data your competitors don’t have.

A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

Sally A. Kornbluth, a cell biologist whose eight-year tenure as Duke University’s provost has earned her a reputation as a brilliant administrator, a creative problem-solver, and a leading advocate of academic excellence, has been selected as MIT’s 18th president. Kornbluth, 61, was elected to the post this morning by a vote of the MIT Corporation. […]

New tools make it easier to empower small-scale innovation among the employees who work most closely with suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects.

This smart telescope lets even amateur astronomers navigate the stars like a pro.

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google launches News Showcase in France, partners with 65+ publishers representing 130+ outlets, and will offer “a limited amount” of paywalled content for free  —  Google has launched News Showcase in France, and it has teamed up with over 65 publishers representing over 130 publications …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Banyan, whose network of item-level purchase data helps customers automate expense management, has raised a $43M Series A, $28M in equity and $15M in debt  —  Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management …

This week, we discuss how the increased use of sensors, chips, and software in cars is changing how we buy, drive, and maintain our vehicles.

“Drawing Together,” a social and ecological resilience project in New York City, has been awarded the 2022 Norman B. Leventhal City Prize.  The project is a collaboration between MIT faculty, researchers, and students, and Green City Force (GCF), a nonprofit organization in New York City that trains young people for careers with a sustainability focus […]

A laser controlled by two cameras and a small computer running an AI model can be trained to target certain types of insect

Tim Hakki / Decrypt: CoinGecko: the Aptos token fell 40.5% on its first day of trading; Aptos’ Layer 1 blockchain was panned for opaque tokenomics and a low transaction throughput  —  The price of Aptos has crashed more than 40% a day after launch as investors remain wary of the network’s widely-panned mainnet rollout.

While automated manufacturing is ubiquitous today, it was once a nascent field birthed by inventors such as Oliver Evans, who is credited with creating the first fully automated industrial process, in flour mill he built and gradually automated in the late 1700s. The processes for creating automated structures or machines are still very top-down, requiring […]

If you stumble on one you just can’t beat, there is no other choice but to watch others do it online.

Repressive regimes are teaching each other how to control protesters’ web access with increasingly surgical precision.