It’s the miracle material that makes cars, computers, and modern medicine possible. It has also corrupted every corner of the environment.

Nivedita Balu / Reuters: Shopify reports Q3 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.4B, above $1.34B estimates, and GMV grew 11% YoY to $46.2B; shares jump 7%+  —  Shopify Inc (SHOP.TO) beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, as businesses stuck to the Canadian online services provider’s tools and payment options to scale up.

Rest of World: Didi, Kuaishou, Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese tech companies are expanding in Latin America and poaching talent from each other, as competition intensifies  —  These young employees are so coveted that Chinese tech companies are quick to poach each other’s talent.  —  • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

Yonhap News Agency: South Korean prosecutors indict four current and former Samsung employees over allegedly stealing and leaking semiconductor tech to overseas companies  —  Prosecutors have indicted four current and former employees of electronics giant Samsung Group on charges of stealing highly valued …

On Sept. 13, MIT AgeLab co-hosted a celebration honoring the 10th anniversary of Boston Bridge, a nonprofit professional development organization in the field of aging with a longtime AgeLab association. Since its founding in 2012, AgeLab has been affiliated with Boston Bridge, an interdisciplinary program that works with business, government, and nongovernmental organizations to improve […]

AI image generators, which create fantastical sights at the intersection of dreams and reality, bubble up on every corner of the web. Their entertainment value is demonstrated by an ever-expanding treasure trove of whimsical and random images serving as indirect portals to the brains of human designers. A simple text prompt yields a nearly instantaneous […]

Your anti-malware software may not work if you upgraded to the new operating system. But Apple says a fix is on the way.

People with Android phones got a notification that a trembler was about to rock Silicon Valley. WIRED looks at the tech behind that feat.

The suspected Chinese influence operation had limited success. But it signals a growing threat from a new disinformation adversary.

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Leaked data from TheTruthSpy stalkerware network reveals its Android apps tracked the calls, locations, and other information of hundreds of thousands of people  —  Leaked data reveals the apps tracked locations and recorded calls of Americans  —  A massive cache of leaked data reveals …

Han Chen / Axios: Report: US state and local governments kept buying Chinese telecom equipment despite a federal-level ban; only five states have rules to limit such purchases  —  Despite federal efforts to block Chinese telecom equipment from U.S. supply chains, state and local governments across …

Jon Victor / The Information: Andy Rubin incorporated home security monitoring software startup Simple Things in July 2020 and appears to have hired staff from his defunct startup Essential  —  Andy Rubin is planning his next act.  —  The former Google executive, who received a $90 million severance package following …

Artificial intelligence models can outperform humans at tasks AIs normally struggle with if they are told to think a certain way, but it doesn’t help them grasp sarcasm

As America’s largest investment to fight climate change, the Inflation Reduction Act positions the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. But as it edges the United States closer to achieving its international climate commitment, the legislation is also expected to yield significant — and more immediate […]

In 2019, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, launched a $1 billion philanthropic commitment to identify global talent. Part of that effort is the Rise initiative, which selects 100 young scholars, ages 15-17, from around the world who show unusual promise and a drive to serve others. This year’s cohort of 100 […]

The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored a number of individuals with ties to MIT with prizes and awards for their contributions to physics. They include: Institute Professor Arup Chakraborty; associate professors Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz and Lina Necib; Yuan Cao SM ’16 PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and several […]

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Tools such as 3D printing, simulations, and AI are changing the calculation of labor costs.

Sharing your ideas is critical to boosting your profile at work — but so is picking the right moment.

The Defender Guard Pro stores your footage locally and delivers clear video—and you can do it all on a budget.

Florida’s storms unleashed deadly vibrio bacteria in their wake. They’ll be a growing threat as the world gets warmer and wetter.

Across the country, people are struggling to fill their prescriptions. And with the government’s lack of concern, this deficit could turn deadly.

Tom Warren / The Verge: An interview with Panos Panay and other Microsoft executives on creating the Surface lineup, difficulties along the way, failed products, and future plans  —  Microsoft looks to the future of redefining personal computers once again  —  In the weeks before the first Surface tablet was announced …

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: A profile of Delaware Chancery Court judge Kathaleen McCormick, who is overseeing the Elon Musk-Twitter dispute, ahead of the Friday deadline to close the deal  —  Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware’s Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter.

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based Trigo Vision, a cashierless checkout startup working with Tesco, Aldi, and others, raised $100M co-led by Temasek and 83North  —  An Israeli startup making technology for cashier-free payment at brick-and-mortar stores has raised $100 million.

To combat the scourge of bots and fake accounts, the dating site will ask users to prove their humanity by capturing a video selfie.

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Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta says Apple’s updated App Store rules requiring developers to use IAPs for sales of “boosts” in social media apps undercuts others in the digital economy  —  Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn’t get more hostile, here we are.

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Alphabet’s “Other Bets” had a Q3 operating loss of $1.61B, up from $1.29B YoY, on revenue of $209M, up from $182M YoY  —  Alphabet today announced Q3 2022 earnings with $69.1 billion in revenue.  These numbers range from July to September with the fiscal year almost coming to a close.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Satya Nadella says more than 20M people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, double the 10M figure that Microsoft shared in April 2022  —  More than 20 million people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday during the company’s first-quarter fiscal 2023 earnings […]

After removing images generated by artificial intelligence models from its archives last month, Shutterstock is now going to sell ones created exclusively by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 AI

Mitochondria — the organelles responsible for energy production in human cells — were once free-living organisms that found their way into early eukaryotic cells over a billion years ago. Since then, they have merged seamlessly with their hosts in a classic example of symbiotic evolution, and now rely on many proteins made in their host cell’s […]

Reflecting on the mission and approach of SENSEable City Lab at MIT and his role as its director, Carlo Ratti quotes the Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, who said, “The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be — how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and […]

Using a simple set of magnets, MIT researchers have come up with a sophisticated way to monitor muscle movements, which they hope will make it easier for people with amputations to control their prosthetic limbs. In a new pair of papers, the researchers demonstrated the accuracy and safety of their magnet-based system, which can track […]

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Bloomberg: Nigeria’s eNaira digital currency, launched in October 2021, is used by less than 0.5% of Nigerians, leading the government to add incentives to aid adoption  —  A year after launching Africa’s first digital currency, Nigeria’s central bank is turning to the nation’s three-wheeler taxi operators …

James Vincent / The Verge: Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to begin selling DALL-E 2-generated stock imagery “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators  —  Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry?  It’s a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years.

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: the underlying tech, its uses and meaning, the crypto financial system, and trust, money, and community  —  – What If You Don’t Like It?  — Digital Cash  —  Part II  —  What Does It Mean?  — A Store of Value  — A Distributed Computer

In the early 2000s, David Kaiser first visited famed physicist Freeman Dyson at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. By the end of the conversation, Dyson was handing over keys to his office, along with files, to help Kaiser’s research — a characteristically open gesture by Dyson, a legendary quantum theorist. The […]

When it comes to battery innovations, much attention gets paid to potential new chemistries and materials. Often overlooked is the importance of production processes for bringing down costs. Now the MIT spinout 24M Technologies has simplified lithium-ion battery production with a new design that requires fewer materials and fewer steps to manufacture each cell. The […]

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The Pixel 6A is just $299—its lowest price ever—but you can also pick up the Pixel Buds Pro and Nest Audio at a discount.

Stacy Elliott / Decrypt: Coinbase to custody $1.6B worth of MakerDAO’s USDC treasury after MakerDAO community voted 75% in favor; a pilot will run through 2022, with new voting in 2023  —  The MakerDAO pilot will run through the end of 2022 before the community needs to vote on whether to keep its USDC with […]