Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple’s efforts to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to solve supply chain weaknesses  —  In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic …

The popular board game “Puerto Rico,” dating to 2002, features sophisticated rules and heavily rewards skill, not chance, as players attempt to create 19th-century economic growth on the island. Many people have found it compelling but haven’t delved into its implications. “I played that game without thinking about it too much,” says Mikael Jakobsson, a […]

The House of Mouse has plenty of streaming options for the whole family.

These days, video game companies can just promote their hardware and new releases via prepackaged livestreams. Why would they bother with a trade show?

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: Twitter’s new API tiers are useless for researchers; the $100/month plan is much worse than the old free plan, and the $42K-$210K/month plans are too expensive  —  Access to Twitter’s API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade.  So how does $210,000 a month sound?

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Everstream Analytics, a provider of predictive insights for supply chain management, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Morgan Stanley’s 1GT Fund and StepStone  —  Just short of a year after raising $24 million from backers including DHL, Everstream Analytics, a company that provides predictive insights …

Jeff Mason / Reuters: Biden says tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products are safe before making them public and that it remains to be seen whether AI is dangerous  —  U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence is dangerous …

Mel King, an adjunct professor emeritus in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and renowned activist, community leader, and politician, passed away on March 28 at the age of 94. Through his teaching, ideas, and the institutions he created at MIT, King profoundly influenced DUSP and its community members, who showcase the love […]

Benoit Forget, the Korea Electric Power Professor of Nuclear Engineering, has been named the new head of the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), effective April 1. “Ben’s substantial research contributions and dedication to his students are truly remarkable,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush […]

MIT’s School of Science welcomes Juliana García-Mejía, one of eight recipients of the 2023 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. The announcement was made March 30 by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides postdocs with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy. García-Mejía, who expects to complete her doctorate […]

Four common mistakes the Roys – and Cousin Greg – made this week.

Three ways to reengage after you quiet quit.

A conversation with DePaul University professor Kelly Richmond Pope about warning signs we regularly miss.

Thanks to large language models, a single scammer can run hundreds or thousands of cons in parallel, night and day, in every language under the sun.

Excessive heat, ever fiercer storms, and a reliance on fossil fuels are becoming an existential crisis for the yearly festival in the Nevada desert.

The tech giant is helping researchers and clinicians decipher vast amounts of data generated by people with persistent symptoms.

Sam Kim / Bloomberg: SEMI report: Japan is expected to spend $7B on chipmaking equipment in 2024, up 82% on 2023, the largest in the world; China’s spending is forecast to rise 2%  —  Japan is poised to sharply raise its chip-gear spending in an attempt to boost its position in the global semiconductor market […]

Tom Bristow / Politico: The UK ICO fines TikTok £12.7M for failing to protect kids’ data, saying the app “should have done better”, down from a £27M fine proposed in September 2022  —  The ICO estimates that 1.4 million children in the UK were on TikTok in 2020.

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple reports an issue with its Weather app on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS, ongoing for over five hours; some users have had issues for over a week  —  Apple is currently experiencing issues with its weather data provider, leaving many users unable to see live weather information and forecasts for […]

When the historic cities of Europe were built hundreds of years ago, there were open green spaces all around them. But today’s city centers can be a 30-minute drive or more to the vast open greenery that earlier Europeans took for granted. That’s what the startup Roofscapes is trying to change. The company, founded by […]

Yes, it has looks only a mother could love—but shut your eyes and wait till you hear how mind-blowingly good this new speaker is.

North Korean hackers appear to have used the corrupted VoIP software to go after just a handful of crypto firms with “surgical precision.”

Here’s a guide to all the models—plus case recommendations and hidden software tricks to try.

Meir Orbach / CTech: Cybersecurity company Cybereason has raised $100M led by SoftBank and says Eric Gan, EVP of SoftBank, will be its new CEO, replacing co-founder Lior Div  —  The new investment will make the Japanese conglomerate Cybereason’s leading shareholder  —  SoftBank is investing another $100 million in Cybereason.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Quantexa, which uses AI to help businesses prevent online fraud and manage customer data, raised a $129M Series E led by GIC at a $1.8B valuation  —  Financial fraud and other online crime continue to present major threats to businesses, and they remain a key focus for regulators requiring …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple to eliminate a small number of its corporate retail staff, marking its first known cuts since embarking on a belt-tightening effort last year  —  Apple Inc. is eliminating a small number of roles within its corporate retail teams, according to people with knowledge of the matter …

Popular plagiarism detection software used by many schools and universities worldwide is set to get an AI-detecting component in the wake of the release of ChatGPT

With Russia’s invasion ongoing, Ukraine is looking for ways that artificial intelligence can help treat the wounded

Each year, MIT’s School of Engineering gives the Junior Bose Award to a junior faculty member who has made outstanding contributions as an educator. The award is given to a member of faculty who is up for promotion from assistant professor to associate professor without tenure. The 2023 Junior Bose Award has been given to […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT has announced that the investigative series “Big Poultry,” published by The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News & Observer, has been chosen as the 2023 winner of the Victor K. McElheny Award for local and regional journalism. This series of articles uncovered the wide-ranging, unregulated impact of the […]

It offers new opportunities for interactivity, personalization, and adventure.

E-liability accounting has helped a Singapore-based tire manufacturer and a German cement producer reduce their emissions.

The new season of Coaching Real Leaders dives deep into leadership challenges around leading through layoffs, accomplishing your goals, and more.

Researchers say viruses can kill antibiotic-resistant microbes and help treat infections. Regulators have to figure out how to get them on the market.

An agency database WIRED obtained reveals widespread use of so-called 1509 summonses that experts say raises the specter of potential abuse.

As more characters enter the public domain, it’s important that creators use them. Next up: Mickey Mouse.

Dan Seifert / The Verge: Unlike most boring modern laptops, Framework’s repairable, sustainable, and upgradeable models are exciting, harking back to the early 2000s era of computing  —  It’s not often that I get too excited about new laptops these days.  Modern laptops are extremely capable devices, with few glaring flaws.

Yana Gaur / Reuters: Western Digital discloses a network security incident, taking some systems offline, and says the hacker obtained internal data but the scope is so far unknown  —  Data storage devices maker Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) on Monday said it is looking into a network security incident …

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Research: Israeli tech startups raised $1.7B in Q1 2023, the lowest since 2018, weighed down by a global slowdown and protests over a proposed judicial overhaul  —  Investment in Israeli tech companies has dropped to the lowest quarterly rate in nearly five years, a result of the global downturn …

Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately identify an object after grasping it just one time. Many robotic hands pack all their powerful sensors into the fingertips, so an object must be in full contact with those fingertips to be identified, which can […]

If you’ve ever played soccer with a robot, it’s a familiar feeling. Sun glistens down on your face as the smell of grass permeates the air. You look around. A four-legged robot is hustling toward you, dribbling with determination.  While the bot doesn’t display a Lionel Messi-like level of ability, it’s an impressive in-the-wild dribbling […]

Whether you want to sleep through the party or rock out (safely) to your favorite band, these will help block out the noise.

We tested the latest and greatest gaming notebooks to sort the god rolls from the vendor fodder.

New York Times: Sources: in November 2021, five days after Biden put NSO on a Commerce Dept. blacklist, a shell company acting as a front for the US gov’t licensed NSO software  —  The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times’ main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet’s decision not to pay for Blue  —  The Times and other news organizations say they won’t pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.

Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: In a now deleted tweet, Elon Musk said verified accounts would get a “few weeks grace” but would lose their badges if “they tell they won’t pay now”  —  – The first day of Twitter’s previously announced axing of “legacy” verified checks nearly passed without incident.

In three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But in higher dimensions, an infinite number of configurations are possible.

This expandable, modular power station can help you go off-grid and stay powered up during outages.

Playing video games to deal with reality is nothing new, but this game about being an intern in Silicon Valley is perfect if you just need a laugh.

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How researchers, including at Meta’s AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition  —  Thought is ever-changing electrical patterns unconnected to individual neurons.  Meta is working on a system to read your mind.