Characteristics and behaviors typically associated with men are often rewarded and considered standard practice.

A battery-powered motor lets you enjoy most of the benefits of biking, minus the sweat.

Samsung’s flagship soundbar is the first ever to feature wireless Dolby Atmos. And it sounds awesome.

Endless vulnerabilities. Massive hacking campaigns. Slow and technically tough patching. It’s time to say goodbye to on-premise Exchange.

Callan Quinn / The Block: Telegram will launch auctions for its usernames via TON blockchain, following a TON auction for wallet usernames, some of which sold for $200K+  —  – The Telegram messaging app is soon to launch a username auction platform.  — Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels …

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Apple sues Masimo, says the medical tech company “carefully studied Apple’s IP” during its patent-infringement suit against Apple in order to make its W1 watch  —  Apple Inc sued medical technology company Masimo Corp in Delaware federal court on Thursday, accusing its new W1 line …

Lewis Maddison / TechRadar: AdGuard: EasyList, a community-run filter list used by popular ad blockers, is being throttled by the YuZu browser; many ad blockers cannot download updates  —  Access to popular filter list is being throttled  —  Audio player loading…  EasyList has been hit with a burst of highly unusual traffic …

Incoming MIT President Sally Kornbluth greeted members of the Institute community at a campus event on Thursday afternoon, outlining her vision and values, and thanking everyone for the reception she has enjoyed. “The warmth and welcome I’ve received from all of you at MIT has been incredible,” said Kornbluth, speaking to a large audience in […]

Keep your phone, tablet, laptop, and other electronics running with these handheld power banks.

The internet service tool was essential in the early days of the war with Russia. But the caprices of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have exposed dangerous flaws.

Bloomberg: Sources: the US is exploring the possibility of new export controls that would limit China’s access to quantum computing technology and AI software  —  The Biden administration is exploring the possibility of new export controls that would limit China’s access to some of the most powerful …

Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest: Microsoft publishes a Windows Subsystem for Android roadmap including Android 13, file transfer support, picture-in-picture, and local network access  —  Microsoft has been rolling out several updates for the Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 11.  The WSA is now significantly faster …

Washington Post: Docs: if Elon Musk buys Twitter, he plans to cut nearly 75% of staff; otherwise, Twitter aims to cut payroll by ~$800M by the end of 2023, ousting ~25% of staff  —  Previously unreported details shed new light on Twitter’s motivations for selling the company — and Elon Musk’s plans to transform it

A device that uses differences in temperature to levitate could keep small sensors floating indefinitely in the stratosphere, such as for monitoring the weather

In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game and ends up in a disturbing London 60 years later. William Gibson’s 2014 sci-fi thriller The Peripheral is so stuffed with ideas it will need seasons to unpack

Splitting data into a spectrum of colour packets has enabled a single computer chip to transmit a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable

Ask a smart home device for the weather forecast, and it takes several seconds for the device to respond. One reason this latency occurs is because connected devices don’t have enough memory or power to store and run the enormous machine-learning models needed for the device to understand what a user is asking of it. […]

Wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, but a mask’s effectiveness depends on how well it fits. Currently, there are no simple ways to measure the fit of a mask, but a new sensor developed at MIT could make it much easier to ensure a good fit. The sensor, […]

Sally A. Kornbluth, a cell biologist whose eight-year tenure as Duke University’s provost has earned her a reputation as a brilliant administrator, a creative problem-solver, and a leading advocate of academic excellence, has been selected as MIT’s 18th president. Kornbluth, 61, was elected to the post this morning by a vote of the MIT Corporation. […]

A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

The most valuable data is the data your competitors don’t have.

New tools make it easier to empower small-scale innovation among the employees who work most closely with suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.

This smart telescope lets even amateur astronomers navigate the stars like a pro.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects.

This week, we discuss how the increased use of sensors, chips, and software in cars is changing how we buy, drive, and maintain our vehicles.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Banyan, whose network of item-level purchase data helps customers automate expense management, has raised a $43M Series A, $28M in equity and $15M in debt  —  Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management …

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google launches News Showcase in France, partners with 65+ publishers representing 130+ outlets, and will offer “a limited amount” of paywalled content for free  —  Google has launched News Showcase in France, and it has teamed up with over 65 publishers representing over 130 publications …

Tim Hakki / Decrypt: CoinGecko: the Aptos token fell 40.5% on its first day of trading; Aptos’ Layer 1 blockchain was panned for opaque tokenomics and a low transaction throughput  —  The price of Aptos has crashed more than 40% a day after launch as investors remain wary of the network’s widely-panned mainnet rollout.

A laser controlled by two cameras and a small computer running an AI model can be trained to target certain types of insect

“Drawing Together,” a social and ecological resilience project in New York City, has been awarded the 2022 Norman B. Leventhal City Prize.  The project is a collaboration between MIT faculty, researchers, and students, and Green City Force (GCF), a nonprofit organization in New York City that trains young people for careers with a sustainability focus […]

While automated manufacturing is ubiquitous today, it was once a nascent field birthed by inventors such as Oliver Evans, who is credited with creating the first fully automated industrial process, in flour mill he built and gradually automated in the late 1700s. The processes for creating automated structures or machines are still very top-down, requiring […]

Some of our favorite camera gear is on sale, just in time to capture the dazzling colors of autumn.

Repressive regimes are teaching each other how to control protesters’ web access with increasingly surgical precision.

If you stumble on one you just can’t beat, there is no other choice but to watch others do it online.

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: A look at “gradient accounts” on Twitter that have color gradients as profile pictures, post viral “relatable” content, and are often accused of stealing tweets  —  Here’s a very popular tweet: “she’s a 10 but she cries on her birthday every year.”  —  Solid.  Concise.

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: SpaceX unveils its Starlink Aviation service, promising speeds up to 350Mbps in airplanes, with a $150K one-time hardware cost and $12.5K to $25K monthly fees  —  Airplane operators can reserve now for Starlink deliveries in mid-2023.  —  SpaceX is now advertising Starlink Aviation …

Katyanna Quach / The Register: A study of 1,063 US adults’ YouTube browsing experience shows the site is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of the viewer’s ideology  —  There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views  —  YouTube’s recommendation algorithm not only gently traps viewers …

Almost 23 per cent of developers in Russia who used the popular coding platform GitHub changed their location information or deleted their profiles between February 2021 and June 2022

A neural network forms the basis of many modern artificial intelligence set-ups, and now the concept has been applied to a purely mechanical calculating machine

The venerable British journal Nature is publishing four special issues in 2022 that delve into matters of racism and science, including the way racist thinking has imbued the content of biological thinking, the downplaying of knowledge accumulated by non-Western societies, and the exclusion of people of color from the scientific establishment. MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles […]

Six members of the MIT community have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society for 2022. The APS Fellowship Program was created in 1921 for those in the physics community to recognize peers who have contributed to advances in physics through original research, innovative applications, teaching, and leadership. According to the APS, each year […]

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A collaborative culture both reduces physician burnout and boosts clinical, operational, and financial performance.

Russia’s invasion is reversing years of environmental progress. But the world can help Ukraine reconstruct its damaged landscape and energy systems.

From microchips to trackers, these tools can save you some heartache and help bring your fur babies back home.

In the future, remote-controlled quadcopters might mean that researchers won’t have to crawl inside volcanoes to collect carbon dioxide anymore.

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: ASML, the Dutch company that makes chip making equipment, expects US restrictions on exporting high-end chips to China to have “limited” impact on its business  —  – ASML reported third-quarter revenue and earnings on Wednesday that topped analyst expectations …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Reddit’s chief product officer says 3M+ users created Reddit Vault wallets, including 2.5M to buy NFT avatars that can be used as profile pictures on the site  —  In July, Reddit jumped on the NFT train, launching an NFT-based marketplace that allows users to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures for a fixed […]

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Munich-based Holidu, which runs a search engine and booking website for vacation rentals, raised a €100M Series E led by 83North, with €75M equity and €25M debt  —  Munich-based software and services vacation rental startup, Holidu, has topped up its coffers …