Turn a low-trust relationship into a high-performing partnership.

With the station’s completion, the country now has a long-term platform in orbit.

Kremlin-backed media is spreading rumors of a Ukrainian “dirty bomb” attack to rouse support for extreme retaliation.

The comedian talked to WIRED about how he raided his address book to cast his biopic parody Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: VCs raised $151B across Q1, Q2, and Q3 2022, exceeding any prior full-year cycle, concentrated among large funds at Sequoia, Lightspeed, and others  —  Limited partners who back venture funds still seek access to startups, which have outperformed other asset classes during recessions

Jay Peters / The Verge: Hands-on with Netflix’s Basic with Ads: while most shows have pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads are more unpredictable; many popular shows are locked to higher tiers  —  Clicking into something on Netflix’s new ads tier is a roll of the dice: you never know how many ads you might have to […]

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Lookout: almost 50% of Android phones used by US state and local government staff run outdated versions of the OS, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities  —  According to a new report, almost half of Android-based mobile phones used by U.S. state and local government employees …

A device that uses a piece of glass with little bumps on it can distinguish objects based on how they scatter light, removing the need for a camera or a computer

For the last few decades, battery research has largely focused on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are used in everything from electric cars to portable electronics and have improved dramatically in terms of affordability and capacity. But nonrechargeable batteries have seen little improvement during that time, despite their crucial role in many important uses such as […]

Let’s acknowledge it: Life is tough. Most people struggle to make a secure living, stay healthy, and care for family members. On a larger scale, climate change keeps unfolding, Ukraine is under attack, authoritarianism is gaining ground around the world, and a pandemic has disrupted society. How are we supposed to feel good amid all […]

As a tenth grader, David Spicer organized a student petition to create more Advanced Placement classes at his high school. He knew another high school in the area offered a dozen more, and he couldn’t see a reason for the disparity. After collecting 250 signatures from fellow students, he presented it to his school’s principal, […]

As psychedelic therapy trials get bigger and the drugs become more accessible, researchers need to start talking about their potential adverse effects.

The Atlanta rapper intended the song to be a troll. Then it exploded—and reached the ears of actual Polish artists.

Elon Musk’s plan to make users pay for verification won’t turn it into a status symbol. It’ll just ruin the blue check’s appeal.

Wall Street Journal: General Mills and Audi paused Twitter ads, and sources say Pfizer and Mondelez have as well, as concern over content moderation grows  —  Advertisers are concerned about a flurry of executive departures at Twitter and new owner Elon Musk’s plans for content moderation

Casey Newton / Platformer: Sources: Twitter’s newsletter platform Revue, acquired in early 2021, is scheduled to close by the end of the year, and its Notes product has been paused  —  A new Vine camera is in.  Notes and Revue are out  —  With massive layoffs expected to hit Twitter tomorrow, on Thursday employees once […]

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 33% YoY to $983M, vs. $972.2M est., 280K+ active customer accounts, and Q4 revenue guidance below estimates; the stock drops 15%+  —  – Twilio’s quarterly revenue projection was softer than analysts had been looking for.  — The company added about 5,000 active customer accounts in the […]

The accelerometers in our smartphones collect information as we travel over bridges, and this can reveal if the structure is weakening and help us know when to fix it to extend its life

The US military has spent billions of dollars on spy satellites and supersonic surveillance aircraft, but now it seems to be focusing on slow, lightweight solar-powered planes to do the same job

One of the smallest and mightiest organisms on the planet is a plant-like bacterium known to marine biologists as Prochlorococcus. The green-tinted microbe measures less than a micron across, and its populations suffuse through the upper layers of the ocean, where a single teaspoon of seawater can hold millions of the tiny organisms. Prochlorococcus grows […]

Want to know if the Golden Gate Bridge is holding up well? There could be an app for that. A new study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special software, can collect useful structural integrity data while crossing bridges. In so doing, they could become a less expensive alternative […]

Academic digital credentials — the cryptographically verifiable assertion that an individual holds a degree, certificate, or other credential — have been available for the better part of a decade. Yet despite the potential value of these data-rich, transportable credentials to graduates, employers, and academic institutions, digital credentials have by no means become the standard in […]

The connection between purpose and performance is real. And it starts at the top.

Whether you dropped the ball on a project or got a bad performance review, these five psychology-backed strategies can help you move forward.

People prefer a personalized message — but are also skeptical of how companies use their data. Here’s how to thread the needle.

The US and Europe can learn a lot from startups that are nimbler, more digitized, and potentially better at serving underserved people.

This week, we discuss possible consequences of Elon Musk’s shakeup at the social media platform he now owns.

Chemists have long conceptualized tiny machines that could fabricate drugs, plastics, and other polymers that are hard to build with bigger tools.

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: the EU plans light-touch rules for Airbnb and other rental companies, including providing data on usership, in a bid to unify laws across the bloc  —  Airbnb (ABNB.O) and other short-term home rental companies will have to provide data on numbers using their services and how many nights …

Chloe Chaplain / The i Paper: Source: the UK plans to remove the Online Safety Bill’s controversial “legal but harmful” content rules, leaving them only for material targeted at children  —  EXCLUSIVEThe Bill is due to be brought back to Parliament later this month after it was delayed over the summer

Josh Ye / Reuters: Lenovo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $17.09B, above estimates, the first decline in 10 quarters as pandemic-fueled global PC demand weakens  —  China’s Lenovo Group (0992.HK) reported its first revenue decline in 10 quarters as a pandemic-fuelled computer sales boom comes to an end …

A chemical gel can reveal a secret sequence of numbers if given the right “password” – a combination of heat, light and water. The technology could be used to prevent counterfeiting or in smart labels

Teaching a machine to recognize human actions has many potential applications, such as automatically detecting workers who fall at a construction site or enabling a smart home robot to interpret a user’s gestures. To do this, researchers train machine-learning models using vast datasets of video clips that show humans performing actions. However, not only is […]

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.

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

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

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 …

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 […]

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 …

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

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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

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.

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

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