MIT Professor Richard Hynes, a pioneer in studying cellular adhesion, has been named a recipient of the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Hynes, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, was honored for the discovery of integrins, proteins that are key […]

MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node held its annual financial technology (fintech) entrepreneurship boot camp this summer, connecting university students with corporate partners to tackle real-world business challenges.   Building on the belief that innovative, creative solutions deliver more value and a better experience, the MIT Entrepreneurship and Fintech Integrator (MEFTI) program featured unique problem statements proposed […]

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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: YouTube rolls out narration voiceovers for Shorts on iOS, a popular feature on TikTok  —  YouTube Shorts continues to compete with TikTok by adding loads of new features that are popular on the other app.  Today, the Google-owned platform is rolling out a narration voiceover feature on iOS, a tool that […]

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Sources: FTX is in the process of raising $1B as Sam Bankman-Fried considers bidding for bankrupt lender Celsius Network’s assets  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto billionaire who has been bailing out distressed industry players in recent months, is considering bidding for the assets …

Financial Times: WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart warns the UK government against undermining encryption in the Online Safety Bill, arguing the move would embolden authoritarian regimes  —  Moves to undermine messaging encryption could embolden hostile nation states, Will Cathcart says

A visual model of Guy Bresler’s research would probably look something like a Venn diagram. He works at the four-way intersection where theoretical computer science, statistics, probability, and information theory collide. “There are always new things to do be done at the interface. There are always opportunities for entirely new questions to ask,” says Bresler, […]

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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: A look at tappable podcast ads in mobile games, which trigger episode downloads; source: iHeartMedia got ~6M unique listeners/month through such ads since 2018  —  Want more stories like this from Ashley Carman?  Podcasters are always hunting for new, flashy places to promote their shows …

The Guardian: Court filing: Elon Musk’s deposition by Twitter’s lawyers has been rescheduled to October 6 and 7  —  Musk to be questioned under oath by Twitter lawyers on 6 and 7 October in preparation for trial over abandoned $44bn takeover  —  Elon Musk is scheduled to be questioned under oath …

Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: The SEC says 16 Wall Street firms have agreed to pay $1.1B in combined penalties for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps  —  Banking giants including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. agreed to pay regulators $1.1 billion in penalties for failing …

Artificial intelligences can create images inspired by the human-generated art they train on. This is raising concerns over copyright and artists’ livelihoods

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The MIT School of Engineering and Pillar VC today announced the MIT-Pillar AI Collective, a one-year pilot program funded by a gift from Pillar VC that will provide seed grants for projects in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science with the goal of supporting translational research. The program will support graduate students and postdocs […]

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Reuters: Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons, which makes Splice and Remini, raised $340M+ from Italian banks Intesa Sanpaolo and Banco BPM, Ryan Reynolds, and more  —  Italian app developer Bending Spoons has raised more than $340 million from investors including Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds and Kerry Trainor …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Flatfile, which automates onboarding, structuring, and cleaning data, raised a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $94.7M  —  Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time.  In fact, data scientists spend an estimated 60% …

Financial Times: A look at South Korea’s Zepeto, owned by Naver and considered one of Asia’s largest metaverse platforms with 15M-20M MAUs, as it plans a global expansion  —  Asia’s largest metaverse platform, Zepeto, is stepping up its global expansion as it looks to compete against the Big Tech groups …

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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China-based Well-Link Technologies, which is building a real-time cloud rendering technology for video games, has raised a $40M Series B2 led by Temasek  —  – Singapore state investment firm Temasek has led a $40 million funding round in Chinese startup Well-Link Technologies, according to an announcement Monday.

Cheri Faulkner / NME: Netflix to open a new game studio in Helsinki “built from scratch” and led by ex-Zynga Vice President and General Manager Marko Lastikka  —  The studio will be responsible for delivering “a variety of delightful and deeply engaging original games”

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas’ content moderation law by mandating that comments include “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby”  —  Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against.

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The AI Policy Forum (AIPF) is an initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to move the global conversation about the impact of artificial intelligence from principles to practical policy implementation. Formed in late 2020, AIPF brings together leaders in government, business, and academia to develop approaches to address the societal challenges posed by […]

Every year during residence exploration week at MIT, or REX week, our undergraduate residence halls host activities to encourage new students to visit, get to know the vibe of the community, and hopefully choose to join. So, how do you get the attention of first-year MIT students? At East Campus, you invite them to help […]

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Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: The UK’s ICO could fine TikTok £27M after provisionally finding that the company breached data protection rules around children’s data  —  ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok faces a possible fine of 27 million pounds ($28.9 million) after the UK’s privacy watchdog provisionally found the company …

Christopher Weaver / Wall Street Journal: Analysis: Amazon’s regular trucking contractors were more than twice as likely as other companies to get unsafe driving scores from February 2020 to August 2022  —  Its regular contractors were more than twice as likely to receive unsafe driving scores compared with similar outfits; Amazon says its network is […]

Reuters: Sources: Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi express concerns over India’s home-grown GPS plan, arguing integrating the system would be costly and require new hardware  —  India is pushing tech giants to make smartphones compatible with its home-grown navigation system within months …

Scientists estimate that more than 95 percent of Earth’s oceans have never been observed, which means we have seen less of our planet’s ocean than we have the far side of the moon or the surface of Mars. The high cost of powering an underwater camera for a long time, by tethering it to a […]

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Counterpoint: the average selling price of iPhones could rise to $892 in Q3 2022 and $944 in Q4 2022, as buyers choose Pro models; the record is $873 in Q4 2021  —  Upward trajectory driven by customers buying more expensive ‘Pro’ models that command higher margins

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: The iPhone, in its third year of a three-year design cycle, may be overhauled in 2023; Apple may delay Pay Later to 2023 and may not host an October 2022 event  —  I’ve spent the last week or so testing out the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and I believe it sets […]