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Governments, nonprofits, and small startups hope to scoop up people let go by the likes of Meta and Amazon. It’s their big chance to lure top-tier talent.

Companies are exploring how to adapt powerful new chatbot technology to negotiate with customer service—and to persuade humans to buy stuff.

A Portuguese island created a village for remote workers, promising community to the newcomers and prosperity to the locals—then delivered on neither.

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Twitter seems to have disabled Spaces, its live audio service, after Musk joined and then abruptly left a group conversation that included suspended journalists  —  Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation …

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Binance says Mazars, the auditing firm that worked on proof-of-reserves reports for Binance, Crypto.com, and others, has paused work for all crypto clients  —  Mazars has deleted Binance’s proof-of-reserves assessment, which found its bitcoin reserves were overcollateralized.

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: Elon Musk briefly showed up to a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after reporters asked him questions  —  The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.

From a young age, Valeria Robayo has taken the lead in her own education. At age 3, her family moved from Bogotá, Colombia, to Houston, Texas, to seek better opportunities for Robayo, and later, her sister. She spent summer days at the local library while her parents worked to support the family. Her parents, who […]

A spacecraft called SWOT will image most of the planet every 21 days to track flooding, drought, and many other water woes.

Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up—and which one might be right for you.

These past few years have been visceral reminders of our mortality. But new technologies can offer a way for us and our loved ones to live on.

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment  —  Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to $3.3B, and Digital Experience revenue up 14% YoY to $1.15B; stock is up 5%+  —  – Adobe maintained its forecast for the new fiscal year.  — The company’s earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter was […]

Bloomberg: About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba and JD.com, no longer face the threat of a US delisting after US inspectors reviewed their audits  —  About 200 companies based in China and Hong Kong are no longer facing an acute threat of being booted off American stock exchanges, sending shares surging.

A talon-like claw with sharp ends and a softer middle helps this flying robot grasp onto thin perches just like a bird

With Twitter, FTX and Alexa all in the doldrums by the end of this year, Annalee Newitz explains why this is actually an encouraging sign for humanity

This year saw the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anyone can converse with, and the news that a quantum computer simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what is real changing, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

The Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT has a new director. Maria Zuber, vice president of research and the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, and Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), recently announced that Tomás Palacios assumed the role of director […]

In July 2022, the MIT School of Engineering welcomed its first class of scholars selected for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Engineering Excellence. The idea for the fellowship grew from conversations taking place within the school’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee — established in 2020 — that identified a need to diversify the pool […]

Consumers’ tastes are changing fast, but one things remains: they value quality, value, and inspiration in their products.

Six principles for deciding whether, when, and how to weigh in.

An analysis of 10,000 acquisitions finds the market performance of firms with two or more advisors tends to be worse than those with just one.

Governments around the world are pushing AI regulation that has nothing to say about generative models. That could be dangerous.

It’s not the same as a last will and testament—and you can share it with your loved ones while you’re still living.

Soon, companies will have no place to hide if they fail to deliver on sustainability.

Zack Beauchamp / Vox: A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk’s Twitter  —  The long shadow of James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution.  —  Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …

Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Sources: hoping to boost the economy, Chinese officials begin reassessing tech policies and plan to close long-running investigations against internet companies  —  Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology

Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: A look at the face off in South Africa between the Khoisan, an ancient southern African tribe, and Amazon, which plans to build a regional HQ on sacred land  —  On the outskirts of Cape Town, at the base of Table Mountain and set back from a tangle of freeways, the […]

A drone equipped with lights and speakers can deter bats from wind farms to protect them from potentially deadly turbine blades

Following established guidelines about prescription drugs would seem to be an obvious course of action, especially for the professionals that do the prescribing. Yet doctors and their family members are less likely than other people to comply with those guidelines, according to a large-scale study co-authored by an MIT economist. Depending on your perspective, that […]

During the coronavirus lockdowns, emissions of the potent greenhouse gas somehow soared. The culprit wasn’t humans—but the Earth itself.

These are the titles that make the most of your big, burly Microsoft console.

The relaunch of Twitter’s subscription service is pretty confusing. Here’s what users receive for their money.

Ryan Mac / New York Times: Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including the suspension of accounts “dedicated to sharing someone’s live location”  —  The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner.

Bloomberg: Twitter suspends ~30 accounts that shared the locations of private jets from public data; @ElonJet, a bot tracking Musk’s jet, is back up after a brief ban  —  Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: EnCharge AI, which builds semiconductor hardware and software stack for AI at the edge, emerges from stealth with a $21.7M Series A led by Anzu Partners  —  EnCharge AI, a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge, today emerged from stealth with $21.7 million in Series …

The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) has recognized Robert T-I. Shin of MIT Lincoln Laboratory with the 2022 Rear Admiral Robert H. Gormley Combat Survivability Award for Leadership. Shin, principal staff in the laboratory’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Tactical Systems divisions and director of the Beaver Works Center, is widely recognized across the […]

Mark Saengrungkongka, a first-year MIT undergraduate student, stood at the blackboard and explained his solution to a math problem similar to the ones that might appear on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, a prestigious annual math competition for college students in the United States and Canada administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). […]

On Monday evening, inside a rainbow-lit Kresge Auditorium, a capacity crowd whooped and hollered and shook their pom-poms along to one of the most anticipated shows of the year: the final student presentations of 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Known on campus as “two-double-oh-nine,” the popular fall semester course challenges teams of undergraduates over three months […]

Companies are awash in people analytics — but that data rarely translates into trustworthy markers of performance.

Don’t default to your comfort zone. Deliver your message in the way that works best for the situation.

Lessons for aspiring directors.

An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider suggests there’s a chance of catching this elusive evidence as it floats through our galactic neighborhood.

WIRED’s editor in chief reflects on a cacophonous year in Big Tech, crypto, and more, and predicts where 2023 may lead.

The Aura Carver makes a great gift (for yourself or someone else). This WIRED-tested model is $20 off.

Bill Allison / Bloomberg: The DOJ charged SBF with violating campaign finance laws, creating a showdown over what could be the biggest recent illegal infusion of money in US politics  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the second biggest Democratic donor in the 2022 election cycle, is charged with violating campaign finance laws …

Johanes Hutabarat / Rest of World: Activists, publishers, and social media users criticize Indonesia’s new, broad criminal code, set to take full effect in 2025, and its impact on online speech  —  Articles forbidding “humiliation” of the government continue an unsettling trend of pressure on online speech.  —  • JAKARTA, INDONESIA

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: SBF’s “carelessness” fraud defense, after misrepresenting risk management and funneling customer money to Alameda, is a confession the SEC sees straight through  —  Oh Sam  —  I.  —  Here is how you run a futures exchange:  — You offer some bets on some propositions, say, whether Bitcoin will go up or […]

The company has taken measures to mitigate the risks, but security researchers warn of a broader threat.

The founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX was arrested the day before his scheduled hearing in the US Congress.