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What age should kids start using social media? Good Question What age should kids start using social media? Good Question 02:35 MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star and a philanthropic force with nearly unrivaled influence among young audiences, acknowledged Wednesday that he used “inappropriate language” in his early online days, as numerous controversies bubbled up around him and a former collaborator.MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, and his reported $700 million empire have come under new fire in recent weeks after accusations of past racist comments by Donaldson surfaced along with allegations that a longtime colleague made inappropriate sexual comments to…
Former President Donald Trump, who once called bitcoin “a scam,” is now pitching himself as the pro-crypto presidential candidate. “You’re going to be very happy with me,” Trump said at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday. “If crypto is going to define the future, I want [it] to be mined, minted and made in the USA,” he told a room full of bitcoin enthusiasts. “If bitcoin is going to the moon … I want America to be the nation that leads the way.” Trump used his keynote address at the conference to announce that if elected, “it…
Elon Musk moving SpaceX from California to Texas Elon Musk moving SpaceX from California to Texas 01:15 Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor, is suing Elon Musk and his social media network X for $35 million, alleging fraud and breach of contract after the billionaire abruptly scrapped a content partnership between them in March. The lawsuit, posted by Variety, which earlier reported on the legal claim, claims that Musk and X promised that Lemon would have “full authority and control over the work he produced even if disliked” by the Tesla CEO and his executives. Lemon also…
Chipmaker Intel Corp. is cutting 15% of its massive workforce as it tries to turn its business around to compete with more successful rivals like Nvidia and AMD.The Santa Clara, California-based company said Thursday it is also suspending its stock dividend as part of a broader plan to cut costs. The bulk of the layoffs will be completed this year. Intel reported a loss for its second quarter along with a small revenue decline, and it forecast third-quarter revenues below Wall Street’s expectations. The company posted a loss of $1.6 billion, or 38 cents per share, in the April-June period.…
I’ve been thinking more about the financial piece of climate innovation since my colleague James Temple sat down for a chat with Mike Schroepfer, former CTO of Meta and a current climate tech investor. They talked about Schroepfer’s philanthropic work as well as his climate-tech venture firm, Gigascale Capital. (I’d highly recommend reading the full Q&A here.) In their conversation, Schroepfer spoke about investing in companies not solely because of their climate promises, but because they can deliver a cheaper, better product that happens to have benefits for climate action too. This all got me thinking about what we can…
End-of-life decisions can be extremely upsetting for surrogates—the people who have to make those calls on behalf of another person. Friends or family members may disagree over what’s best for their loved one, which can lead to distressing situations. David Wendler, a bioethicist at the US National Institutes of Health, and his colleagues have been working on an idea for something that could make things easier: an artificial intelligence-based tool that can help surrogates predict what the patients themselves would want in any given situation. Wendler hopes to start building their tool as soon as they secure funding for it,…
Wendler has been working on ways to help surrogates make these kinds of decisions. Over ten years ago, he developed the idea for a tool that would predict a patient’s preferences based on a set of characteristics, such as their age, gender and insurance status. That tool would have been based on a computer algorithm trained on survey results from the general population. It may seem crude, but these characteristics do seem to influence how people feel about medical care. A teenager is more likely to opt for aggressive treatment than a 90-year-old, for example. And research suggests that predictions…
Etsy said Wednesday it will begin testing its first-ever loyalty program in September, a move designed to boost the online retailer’s sluggish sales.The company said it will send invitations to a select number of Etsy buyers who will beta test the program. Etsy Insider members will receive free shipping on purchases and discounts on certain products, among other perks, the New York-based company said.Etsy did not disclose how much customers must pay for the new loyalty program, but Raina Moskowitz, the company’s chief operating and marketing officer said the monthly fee will cost roughly as much as a latte “While…
Realizing AI’s full potential on a mass scale will require more than just executives’ enthusiasm; becoming a truly AI-first enterprise will require a significant, sustained investment in cloud infrastructure and strategy. In 2024, the cloud has evolved beyond its initial purpose as a storage tool and cost saver to become a crucial driver of innovation, transformation, and disruption. Now, with AI in the mix, enterprises are looking to the cloud to support large language models (LLMs) to maximize R&D performance and prevent cybersecurity attacks, among other high-impact use cases. A 2023 report by Infosys looks at how prepared companies are…
—Frances Houle, Kate Kirby, Laura Greene & Michael Marder In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into claims made by Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, in two high-profile papers the journal had published about the discovery of room-temperature superconductivity. Those two papers, which showed evidence of fabricated data, were eventually retracted, along with other Dias papers. This work made it into top journals because reviewers are used to being able to trust that data have not been so completely manipulated, and Dias’s experiments required very high pressures that other labs could not easily replicate.…
Last Thursday, JK, who was released from prison in 2022, sat down with Antonio and Mat Honan, our editor in chief, for a live broadcast conversation on the experiment, his current situation, and his plans for the future. If you subscribe to MIT Technology Review, you can watch a recording of the conversation or read the transcript here. But if you don’t yet subscribe (and do consider it—I’m biased, but it’s worth it), allow me to recap some of the highlights of what JK shared. His life has been eventful since he came out of prison. JK sought to live…
Alas, a pattern of similar behavior has been known for at least two decades. The history of such deceptions led the American Physical Society (APS) to study occurrences of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and harassment, and to create structures to address the issue. The APS work helped solidify community standards, but ethical violations are still a critical problem. Back in 2003, in response to two high-profile cases of premeditated fraud in physics, one of them remarkably similar to the cases being discussed now, the APS created a Task Force on Ethics. It conducted surveys to learn about the kind of ethics…
The voice mode is powered by OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model, which combines voice, text, and vision capabilities. To gather feedback, the company is initially launching the chatbot to a “small group of users” paying for ChatGPT Plus, but it says it will make the bot available to all ChatGPT Plus subscribers this fall. A ChatGPT Plus subscription costs $20 a month. OpenAI says it will notify customers who are part of the first rollout wave in the ChatGPT app and provide instructions on how to use the new model. The new voice feature, which was announced in May, is being…
How Black sororities and fraternities will impact the 2024 election How Black sororities and fraternities will impact the 2024 election 03:32 Google’s search engine is a common place for users to start their hunt for everything from the best sunscreens to the top finance and budgeting tools that will stretch their dollars the furthest. But Google’s search hub doesn’t always deliver the most accurate or useful results for financial products, according to a new study from personal finance website WalletHub. Far from showing searchers top-notch results, the search engine often yields responses that can cost people $202 on average, and up to…
How a glitch crippled tech operations worldwide How the CrowdStrike glitch crippled operations across the globe 01:41 Microsoft said some of its 365 services are experiencing problems that are keeping customers from using the cloud-based apps, which include Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. The company said Tuesday it has “identified a potential networking issue” and is working on solving the problem.Reports of outages with Microsoft 365 programs spiked on DownDetector on Tuesday morning, with users reporting problems with Outlook and other apps. The Microsoft 365 outage comes less than two weeks after the service experienced a massive crash caused by a bug in…
—Edlyn V. Levine is CEO and co-founder of a stealth-mode technology start up and an affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management and the Department of Physics at Harvard University. Fiona Murray is the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT School of Management and Vice Chair of the NATO Innovation Fund. A country’s economic security—its ability to generate both national security and economic prosperity—is grounded in it having technological capabilities that outpace those of its adversaries and complement those of its allies.Though this is a principle well known throughout history, the move over the last few decades…