Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Redwood City-based Alation, which helps crawl and search enterprise databases, raised a $123M Series E at a $1.7B valuation, bringing its total funding to $340M  —  There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations.

Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: China’s Zhengzhou industrial park, where Foxconn makes iPhones, begins a weeklong lockdown to counteract the “severe and complicated” spread of COVID-19  —  HONG KONG—The industrial park where Foxconn Technology Group’s iPhone assembly plant is struggling to maintain production amid …

Raksha Kumar / Rest of World: A look at the everyday sexism faced by Indian women working in tech; around 36% of India’s 5M tech workers are women, of which 7% hold executive-level positions  —  Tech helped more Indian women join the workforce, but they’re still fighting to be treated equally.

The world’s largest digital camera has a sensor resolution the same as 266 iPhones

Neural networks, a type of computing system loosely modeled on the organization of the human brain, form the basis of many artificial intelligence systems for applications such speech recognition, computer vision, and medical image analysis. In the field of neuroscience, researchers often use neural networks to try to model the same kind of tasks that […]

Capable of operating almost 7 miles down, the titanium Deepsea Challenge takes the watch world’s battle for diver supremacy to new depths.

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Rewind, whose Mac app creates a searchable recording to help users find what they’ve seen, said, or heard, raised a $10M seed led by a16z at a $75M valuation  —  Apple’s M1 and M2 chips give Optimizely co-founder a key in  —  While there have been quite a few attempts to […]

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Dropbox says hackers stole code and some API keys from 130 GitHub repositories via a phishing campaign, but its core apps and infrastructure were unaffected  —  Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub …

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: Match Group reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to $810M, vs. $793M est., paying users up 2% YoY to 16.5M, and plans Hinge and The League investments; stock jumps 15%+  —  Company plans to focus on ‘targeted, high-returning investments’ in Hinge and The League next year while monitoring headcount and marketing […]

Artificial Intelligence trains low-cost robot dog to perform tasks previously achievable by machines ten times more expensive

An AI has been used to train robot dogs to toss cups into a garbage can or wipe a whiteboard with an eraser while cutting out hand-coding, which makes them one-tenth the usual cost

Ukraine has used drones in innovative ways throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, and may now be preparing to deploy machines capable of finding and attacking targets without direct human control

Voters need to pay attention to races up and down the ballot — especially to more obscure county-level contests — to protect democracy, panelists said during an Oct. 12 discussion titled “Why the 2022 Elections May Determine the Future of Democracy in the U.S.” While national and congressional races get the most attention, voters may […]

Rita Anoh’s first exposure to college-level research was not something she recognized as a path she could follow. While in high school, the daughter of Anoh’s Advanced Placement biology teacher presented a poster to her class about what she was working on in graduate school. “At the time, actually, it did not click to me […]

Using an approach based on CRISPR proteins, MIT researchers have developed a new way to precisely control the amount of a particular protein that is produced in mammalian cells. This technique could be used to finely tune the production of useful proteins, such as the monoclonal antibodies used to treat cancer and other diseases, or […]

Proactively addressing burnout will boost retention and performance.

Surveys, interviews, observation, and other tools can help you avoid “one-size-fits-none” policies.

How did the Nobel laureate plan her time and navigate her life choices to leave a lasting impact on the world?

The US government is funding tech to determine whether genetic alterations in a virus or pest are an evolutionary quirk—or a lab-engineered danger.

WIRED sat down with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer and Worlds’s Edge Studio chief Michael Mann to talk about AoE and everything real-time strategy.

Henry Cavill is getting back into the cape, and James Gunn and Peter Safran now control the studio. Here’s how they can bring the Man of Steel back to life.

New York Times: After a slow start, Donald Trump’s Truth Social has passed Gab, Parler, and other right-wing social media in unique visitors, largely due to Trump posting  —  The right-wing social network faces two federal investigations and an uncertain financial future.  But it has still managed to outpace its rivals.

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sony reports PlayStation Plus subscribers declined to 45.4M in Q2, down from 47.3M in Q1, and PlayStation Network MAUs dropped to 102M in Q2 from 103M in Q1  —  PlayStation Plus subscribers have dropped by nearly 2 million users since the revamped service launched in June.

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Uber reports Q3 revenue rose 72% YoY to $8.34B, beating $8.1B estimates, as gross bookings rose 26% YoY to $29.1B, including $13.7B from Uber Eats  —  Uber Technologies Inc. reported revenue that beat analysts’ expectations, fueled by a recovery in driver supply that supported increased ridership …

Fusion, which promises practically unlimited, carbon-free energy using the same processes that power the sun, is at the heart of a worldwide research effort that could help mitigate climate change. A multidisciplinary team of researchers is now bringing tools and insights from machine learning to aid this effort. Scientists from MIT and elsewhere have used […]

Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the cavernous sanctuary of a massive, stone cathedral. The sound a cathedral-goer will hear is affected by many factors, including the location of the organ, where the listener is standing, whether any columns, pews, or other obstacles stand between them, what the walls are made […]

The creators of this $129 headset want to make mixed reality accessible—and affordable—for more users.

This projector might be easy to set up and use, but it comes at a hefty price.

Whether your ride is an errand-runner or an escape from daily responsibilities, we’ve got the gear you need right here.

Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt: Anchorage Digital plans to custody a “significant portion” of Apollo Global’s crypto portfolio and offer crypto custody services to Apollo’s clients  —  The private equity giant that manages half a trillion dollars will use Anchorage for institutional crypto custody.

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: GameStop officially launches its NFT marketplace on ImmutableX blockchain, allowing users to access Web3 games currently being built on ImmutableX  —  The marketplace’s official release on the layer 2 blockchain platform is the result of a partnership that’s been months in the making.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple’s VP of online retail Anna Matthiasson is leaving the company, to be replaced by Karen Rasmussen; CIO Mary Demby is retiring after three decades  —  Apple Inc.’s top executives in charge of its online retail store and information-systems divisions are stepping down …

MIT condensed matter theory professors of physics Liang Fu and Patrick A. Lee received the inaugural Larkin Awards in Theoretical Physics, awarded by the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota. Fu received the 2022 Anatoly Larkin Award for a junior researcher for his work on 3D topological insulators and odd-parity topological […]

Ashton Carter, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and a lifelong advocate of technological innovation who applied his training as a physicist toward public policy, died of a heart attack Oct. 24 in Boston. He was 68. As secretary of defense in the Obama administration, Carter was best known for opening the way for women in […]

For starters, don’t say anything about what anybody eats or doesn’t eat at work.

The right process can help you boost revenue, expand margins, and successfully launch new products — even in challenging economic times.

Companies need to build cultures that help women thrive — not just survive.

A tragic discovery led my real-life loved ones to pull away. In the RPG, I found support and trust again.

Despite having tiny arthropod brains, spiders in a new experiment showed some complex cognitive calculations.

FabricNano says it has found an affordable way to swap petrochemicals for plants and proteins.

Financial Times: Sources detail the twists and turns in Elon Musk’s $44B Twitter takeover, starting in March, falling apart, and then closing late on October 27  —  Even as his $44bn buyout came down to the wire, Elon Musk kept Twitter guessing.  —  Normally, lawyers and advisers on each side …

Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal: The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480B+ on paper in the past year; Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth drops by $87B+, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos by $58B+  —  Moguls including Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have collectively lost more on paper than the market values of most S&P […]

Associated Press: The White House welcomes officials from 36 countries, the EU, and private companies for a two-day summit on ransomware attacks, the second such event  —  The White House is bringing together three dozen nations, the European Union and a slew of private-sector companies for a two-day summit starting Monday …

Wildfires, floods, pollution, and overfishing are among the many disruptions that can change the balance of ecosystems, sometimes endangering the future of entire species. But evaluating these ecosystems to determine which species are most at risk, in order to focus preservation actions and policies where they are most needed, is a challenging task. Most such […]

These monthly deliveries will help children start coding or cooking, and encourage them to read about the world or learn science.

This small but mighty Android smartphone will do the job. And it has a headphone jack.

Screw waiting around for a service technician all day. You can nail many home DIY tasks with the right gear and the right attitude.

Khari Johnson / Wired: Interview with Gerard de Graaf, director of a new EU office in San Francisco, on the DMA taking force on November 1 and its likely impact on tech companies  —  The Digital Markets Act will force big tech platforms to break open their walled gardens in 2023, says the EU’s new […]

Casey Newton / Platformer: Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges  —  Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter’s new CEO considers ending free verification  —  Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay …

Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Musk ordered Twitter homepage to be changed to show the Explore page to logged out users, not a sign-up form, which was quietly implemented on Friday  —  On his first day, Twitter’s new ‘Chief Twit’ quietly changed the homepage to send a message.