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Companies will be legally required to block children’s access to harmful content under UK’s Online Safety Act or face large finesSocial media and other internet platforms will be legally required to block children’s access to harmful content from July or face large fines, Ofcom has announced.Tech firms will have to apply the measures by 25 July or risk fines – and in extreme cases being shut down – under the UK’s...
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Coupon fraud is significantly more common than publicly acknowledged.Continue reading on Medium »
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Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Why the next generation of car interiors won’t just respond to commands—they’ll anticipate needsContinue reading on Cognitive Cars »
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:In today’s fast-paced digital ecosystem, enhancing team productivity is no longer a luxury—it is a necessity. With geographically…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:We’ve all been there—that all-too-familiar moment when you check for updates on your Android phone and see the reassuring, yet utterly…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Recorded onApril 23, 2025 Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product Speakers: David Rotman, editor at large, and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 byMIT Technology Review‘s readers. BCIs are electrodes implanted into the brain to send neural commands to computers, primarily to assist…
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Despite being the biggest electric0vehicle market in the world, China might decide it’s had enough of Tesla. In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break it all down.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:From remotely locking your phone to changing passwords, do this quickly to protect yourself and restore peace of mindSmartphones contain the entirety of our modern lives, from photos, messages and memories to credit cards, bank accounts and all life admin, so when one gets lost or stolen it can be far worse than the cost of the actual handset.Here’s what to do if the worst happens. Quickly taking these steps will help...
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:PC, PlayStation 5 (version played); Sandfall Interactive/Kepler InteractiveBoasting a unique world, challenging combat and great writing, this RPG has a lot going for it, if only it didn’t revel in its own mysteriousness so muchWhen we meet Clair Obscur’s protagonist Gustave, he’s getting ready to say goodbye to his ex-girlfriend, Sophie. Once a year the Paintress, a giant god-like woman visible from across the sea,...
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Creativity issue The university computer lab may seem like an unlikely center for creativity. We tend to think of creativity as happening more in the artist’s studio or writers’ workshop. But…
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Facebook and Instagram owner also criticised for leaving up posts inciting violence during UK riotsMark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced sweeping content moderation changes “hastily” and with no indication it had considered the human rights impact, the social media company’s oversight board has said.The assessment of the changes came as the board also criticised the Facebook and Instagram owner for leaving up three posts...
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:China is limiting US access to critical minerals in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but the move isn’t as devastating as Beijing wants it to be.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly alleges the companies are selling illegal off-brand versions of its best-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:A new play about OpenAI I recently saw Doomers, a new play by Matthew Gasda about the aborted 2023 coup at OpenAI, here represented by a fictional company called MindMesh. The action is set almost entirely in a meeting room; the first act follows executives immediately after the firing of company CEO Seth (a stand-in…
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:The reason you are reading this letter from me today is that I was bored 30 years ago. I was bored and curious about the world and so I wound up spending a lot of time in the university computer lab, screwing around on Usenet and the early World Wide Web, looking for interesting things…
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Ariel Aberg-Riger is the author of America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Think Your Customer Data Tells the Whole Story? Prove It.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Are you ready to turbocharge your productivity and creativity with a workspace that’s actually built for the way you work? Grok Studio…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Clara Brenner, MBA ’12, arrived in Cambridge on the lookout for a business partner. She wanted to start her own company—and never have to deal with a boss again. She would go it alone if she had to, but she hoped to find someone whose skills would complement her own. It’s a common MBA tale.…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:One costly and time-consuming step in constructing a concrete building is creating the “formwork,” the wooden mold into which the concrete is poured. Now MIT researchers have developed a way to replace the wood with lightly treated mud. “What we’ve demonstrated is that we can essentially take the ground we’re standing on, or waste soil…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:It all began with a simple origami model. As an undergrad at Harvard, Danna Freedman went to a professor’s office hours for her general chemistry class and came across an elegant paper model that depicted the fullerene molecule. The intricately folded representation of chemical bonds and atomic arrangements sparked her interest, igniting a profound curiosity…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Scientists have known for decades that certain neurons in the hippocampus are dedicated to remembering specific locations where an animal has been. More useful, though, is remembering where places are relative to each other, and it hasn’t been clear how those mental maps are formed. A study by MIT neuroscientist Matthew Wilson and colleagues sheds…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Soon after MIT’s 18th president, Sally Kornbluth, was inaugurated in May 2023, she made it a priority to expand her early on-campus listening tour to alumni living and working around the world. She wanted to learn more about their priorities and their connections with MIT, while also engaging them in her expansive vision for its…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment. The latest robo-bug from an MIT lab, inspired by the anatomy of the bee, comes closer to matching nature’s performance than ever before. Led by Kevin Chen, an associate…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:A new type of glue developed by researchers from MIT and Germany combines sticky polymers inspired by the mussel with the germ-fighting properties of another natural material: mucus. To stick to a rock or a ship, mussels secrete a fluid full of proteins connected by chemical cross-links. As it happens, similar cross-linking features are found…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which is about as massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy 270 million light-years away. Its corona—a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma—suddenly disappeared before reassembling months later. Now members of the team have…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:When the prison doors first closed behind him more than 50 years ago, Lee Perlman, PhD ’89, felt decidedly unsettled. In his first job out of college, as a researcher for a consulting company working on a project for the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, he had been tasked with interviewing incarcerated participants in…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:After decades of working as a biologist at a Southern school with a Division1 football team, coming to MIT was a bit of a culture shock—in the best possible way. I’ve heard from MIT alumni all about late-night psetting, when to catch MITHenge, and the best way to celebrate Pi Day (with pie, of course).…
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Long before Dylan Kerler developed memecoin launchpad Pump.Fun, somebody going by the same name made tens of thousands of dollars “rug-pulling” crypto coins that they created.
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