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Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale's must-see prison show - The Associated Press ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale's must-see prison show The Associated PressPope Francis visits Venice, says his work isn't ... Continue Reading »

Channel 12 reports 30 paratrooper reservists refusing to show up for duty, citing exhaustion - The Times of Israel ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Channel 12 reports 30 paratrooper reservists refusing to show up for duty, citing exhaustion The Times of IsraelWith Israel Poised to Invade Rafah, Negotiators Try Again ... Continue Reading »

Biden discusses hostage deal, reiterates ‘clear position’ on Rafah invasion in phone call with Netanyahu on Sunday - CNN ↓

Monday April 29, 2024

Biden discusses hostage deal, reiterates ‘clear position’ on Rafah invasion in phone call with Netanyahu on Sunday CNNIsrael-Hamas War Day 205 | Israel-Hamas War Day 205 ... Continue Reading »

Israel open to discussing "sustainable calm" in Gaza after initial hostage release: officials - Axios ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Israel open to discussing "sustainable calm" in Gaza after initial hostage release: officials AxiosView Full Coverage on Google News Continue Reading »

Opinion | Nelson Mandela legacy reassessed as South Africans prepare to vote - The Washington Post - The Washington Post ↓

Tuesday April 23, 2024

Opinion | Nelson Mandela legacy reassessed as South Africans prepare to vote - The Washington Post The Washington Post Continue Reading »

Situation on frontline has worsened, Ukraine army chief says - BBC.com ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Situation on frontline has worsened, Ukraine army chief says BBC.comUkraine war briefing: Russian pressure forces Ukrainian retreat from three villages The GuardianUkraine pulls back from three villages ... Continue Reading »

Humza Yousaf rules out pact with Alex Salmond's Alba party - BBC.com ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Humza Yousaf rules out pact with Alex Salmond's Alba party BBC.comNet Zero Crashes in Scotland - WSJ The Wall Street JournalWhat to Know About the Breakup of ... Continue Reading »

Sánchez on the edge: Will Spain's prime minister resign? - POLITICO Europe ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Sánchez on the edge: Will Spain's prime minister resign? POLITICO EuropeWill he resign or not? Spain awaits PM's decision Yahoo! VoicesSánchez case shows Spain's ethics code vacuum ... Continue Reading »

Russia arrests more journalists on 'extremism' charges - The Hill ↓

Monday April 29, 2024

Russia arrests more journalists on 'extremism' charges The HillRussia arrests more journalists in intensifying crackdown on dissent The Washington PostRussian journalists held in fresh anti-Alexei Navalny case Financial ... Continue Reading »

Israel working to block feared ICC arrest warrants against PM, others over Gaza war - The Times of Israel ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Israel working to block feared ICC arrest warrants against PM, others over Gaza war The Times of IsraelIsraeli Officials Believe I.C.C. Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over ... Continue Reading »

Russia launches missile barrage across Ukraine – but Kyiv fights back with drones - The Independent ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Russia launches missile barrage across Ukraine – but Kyiv fights back with drones The IndependentRussia and Ukraine target each other’s energy sectors Al Jazeera EnglishRussian missiles strike ... Continue Reading »

World Central Kitchen will resume aid work in Gaza on Monday - The Washington Post ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

World Central Kitchen will resume aid work in Gaza on Monday The Washington PostWorld Central Kitchen Will Return to Gaza The New York TimesWorld Central Kitchen resuming ... Continue Reading »

McConnell: Flipping Senate "most important" thing before leaving leadership - Axios ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

McConnell: Flipping Senate "most important" thing before leaving leadership AxiosMcConnell: China, Russia, Terrorism, And Iran Are A "More Formidable Combination" Than World War Two Axis RealClearPoliticsMcConnell says ... Continue Reading »

Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni to run in EU election - POLITICO Europe ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni to run in EU election POLITICO EuropeItaly PM Meloni announces candidacy at EU election Reuters.comItaly's Giorgia Meloni throws her hat in the ring ... Continue Reading »

Rwanda flight detentions to begin within weeks, Home Office says - BBC.com ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Rwanda flight detentions to begin within weeks, Home Office says BBC.comHome Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation The GuardianUK’s Sunak Says Migration ... Continue Reading »

Students and children in Gaza thank pro-Palestinian protesters at US college campuses - CNN ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Students and children in Gaza thank pro-Palestinian protesters at US college campuses CNNPalestinians in Rafah express thanks to US university protesters Al Jazeera EnglishMemo From a Gazan ... Continue Reading »

Schools closed, warnings issued as Asia swelters in extreme heatwave - FRANCE 24 English ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Schools closed, warnings issued as Asia swelters in extreme heatwave FRANCE 24 EnglishPhilippine students suffer in wilting heat, thwarting education efforts Yahoo! VoicesWave of exceptionally hot weather ... Continue Reading »

Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Was Topic in Biden-Netanyahu Latest Conversation - Bloomberg ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Was Topic in Biden-Netanyahu Latest Conversation BloombergBlinken to travel to Israel, other key Middle Eastern countries amid stalled hostage and ceasefire negotiations CNNAntony Blinken ... Continue Reading »

Anti-Prostitution and Homosexuality Law in Iraq - United States Department of State - Department of State ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

Anti-Prostitution and Homosexuality Law in Iraq - United States Department of State Department of StateIraq Criminalizes Queer Relationships With Maximum 15 Years in Prison The Daily BeastIraq: ... Continue Reading »

Aerial photos show wide devastation left by tornado in China's Guangzhou - The Associated Press ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Aerial photos show wide devastation left by tornado in China's Guangzhou The Associated PressView Full Coverage on Google News Continue Reading »

Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan ↓

Friday April 26, 2024

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from ... Continue Reading »

The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my biotech plants ↓

Friday April 26, 2024

Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool helps you figure out which ones to trust. The news: Large language models are famous for ... Continue Reading »

My biotech plants are dead ↓

Friday April 26, 2024

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign ... Continue Reading »

Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool helps you figure out which ones to trust. ↓

Thursday April 25, 2024

Large language models are famous for their ability to make things up—in fact, it’s what they’re best at. But their inability to tell fact from ... Continue Reading »

The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and clean energy’s implications for mining ↓

Thursday April 25, 2024

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI startup ... Continue Reading »

Want less mining? Switch to clean energy. ↓

Thursday April 25, 2024

Political fights over mining and minerals are heating up, and there are growing environmental and sociological concerns about how to source the materials the world ... Continue Reading »

Hydrogen could be used for nearly everything. It probably shouldn’t be. ↓

Thursday April 25, 2024

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. From toaster ... Continue Reading »

An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary ↓

Thursday April 25, 2024

I’m stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the rest of eternity? This makes it sound like I’m dying, but it’s the ... Continue Reading »

A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person ↓

Wednesday April 24, 2024

A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from ... Continue Reading »

Almost every Chinese keyboard app has a security flaw that reveals what users type ↓

Wednesday April 24, 2024

Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that makes it possible to spy on what users are ... Continue Reading »

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One of Prime Video’s best new series just debuted with a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Prime Video may have a new hit series on its hands. Them: The Scare is a newly debuted eight-episode series that just dropped all at ... Continue Reading »

Scientist claims he has evidence we live in a simulation ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

We live in a simulation. It might sound crazy, yet some of the brightest minds in the scientific community have long been consumed by the ... Continue Reading »

Arzopa Z1RC review: It’s not all hype ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

If you’re on social media or see tech-focused TikTok videos, you’ve likely seen the videos about Arzopa portable monitors. They’re everywhere, with the promise of ... Continue Reading »

NASA found a lake of lava that is ‘smooth as glass’ on Io ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

NASA says it has discovered a lake of lava on Io’s surface. The lake was discovered using data from Juno’s most recent flyby of the ... Continue Reading »

Use these 8 mind-blowing iOS secrets that I just learned today ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

iPhone’s iOS is full of secrets and hidden features. While I’m excited about all the new tweaks and updates iOS 18 will bring, the software ... Continue Reading »

You can buy this flame-throwing robot dog for less than $10,000 ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

Robots continue to take new shapes. The latest to garner attention is the Thermonator, a quadruped robot with a flamethrower attached to its back. The ... Continue Reading »

The biggest streaming TV shows right now on Netflix, Hulu, Max, Apple TV+, and Prime Video ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

The apocalypse is all the rage in the streaming world right now. Netflix, for one, keeps cranking out new shows about how humanity reacts to ... Continue Reading »

These US states are about to have a brutally hot summer ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a stark warning, claiming that we are in for a brutally hot U.S. summer, with several ... Continue Reading »

14 apps that I’ll always keep on my iPhone’s Home Screen ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

With iOS 18 being rumored to offer even more ways to organize apps on your iPhone’s Home Screen, it got me thinking about what I ... Continue Reading »

New on Peacock: May 2024 ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

If you’re looking for everything new on Peacock this month, you’ve come to the right place. NBCUniversal’s streaming service has its fair share of original ... Continue Reading »

Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) ↓

Monday April 29, 2024

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the ... Continue Reading »

AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram (Scott Nover/Fast Company) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Scott Nover / Fast Company: AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate ... Continue Reading »

Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill (Wall Street Journal) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to ... Continue Reading »

Elon Musk visits China, a source says to discuss with senior officials the rollout of FSD in the country and permission to transfer data overseas (Reuters) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Reuters: Elon Musk visits China, a source says to discuss with senior officials the rollout of FSD in the country and permission to transfer data ... Continue Reading »

Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at ... Continue Reading »

A profile of Ethan Mollick, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose early embrace of AI made him a go-to expert for policymakers and corporate leaders (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Ethan Mollick, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose early embrace of AI made him a go-to ... Continue Reading »

Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried ... Continue Reading »

India's top five IT services companies, including Infosys and Wipro, collectively saw a decline of 69,167 employees in FY 2024; HCLTech added 1,537 employees (Debangana Ghosh/Moneycontrol) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Debangana Ghosh / Moneycontrol: India's top five IT services companies, including Infosys and Wipro, collectively saw a decline of 69,167 employees in FY 2024; HCLTech ... Continue Reading »

Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from ... Continue Reading »

TikTok users with stigmatized interests or marginalized identities express anxiety over its potential ban, as rebuilding their communities elsewhere may be hard (Washington Post) ↓

Sunday April 28, 2024

Washington Post: TikTok users with stigmatized interests or marginalized identities express anxiety over its potential ban, as rebuilding their communities elsewhere may be hard — ... Continue Reading »

The US IRS says it spent $10.5M to develop and $2.4M to run its free tax filing website, used by 140K+ taxpayers in 12 states, and claims high user satisfaction (Julie Zauzmer Weil/Washington Post) ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post: The US IRS says it spent $10.5M to develop and $2.4M to run its free tax filing website, used ... Continue Reading »

EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images ... Continue Reading »

Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board (Eugen Rochko/Mastodon Blog) ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog: Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and ... Continue Reading »

Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending (Karen Weise/New York Times) ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

Karen Weise / New York Times: Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in ... Continue Reading »

Trump is using the prospect of a TikTok ban to court younger voters, blaming Biden for setting a ban in motion, as the new law rattles pro-Biden TikTok creators (Akayla Gardner/Bloomberg) ↓

Saturday April 27, 2024

Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: Trump is using the prospect of a TikTok ban to court younger voters, blaming Biden for setting a ban in motion, ... Continue Reading »