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Activision Blizzard employees sign petition denouncing company's 'abhorrent' response to lawsuit

WeChat suspends new user registrations as China cracks down on tech

Google and Facebook will require vaccinations for employees returning to the office

Facebook says it's moving forward with Instagram for kids despite backlash

Facebook recalling 4 million Oculus Quest 2 headset components

Google revenue jumps 62%, fueled by demand for online advertising

Apple posts a record June quarter thanks to iPhone sales

Amazon is everywhere. Here's how the US could break it up

Facing an employee walkout, Activision Blizzard CEO says his company's response to lawsuit was 'tone deaf'

Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2 billion to get Blue Origin back in the moon race

Facebook doubles profit but braces for hit from Apple privacy changes

Ag-tech Employing AI and Range of Tools With Dramatic Results 

Managed cybersecurity startup SolCyber emerges from stealth with $20M

Kongregate.io will hit open beta later this year with NFT games

nDreams kickstarts new VR studio led by mobile game veteran

Jing Wang, professor of Chinese media and cultural studies, dies at 71

A sleep study’s eye-opening findings

Atari will bring back reimagined classic arcade game Food Fight for the VCS

Sumo Logic launches app performance-monitoring features

Sony Bravia X90J TV review – A solid gaming TV that faces tough competition

Capital One exec shares why building diverse teams in AI and finance is so crucial

FundamentalVR unveils virtual reality surgery training platform with haptic feedback

ConverseNow boosts restaurant-ordering AI with $15M raise

Horizon Blockchain Games raises $4.5M for blockchain games like Skyweaver

Livepeer snags $20M for decentralized video transcoding

Diginex boosts sustainability metric tracking tools with $6M raise

Activision Blizzard employees stage walkout, and thousands sign petition for anti-discrimination action

Geologists take Earth’s inner temperature using erupted sea glass

How voice biometrics can protect your customers from fraud

Canvas integrates 3D models to streamline documentation

Kena: Bridge of Spirits delayed to September 21

A new way to detect the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant in wastewater

Robert Logcher, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, dies at 85

Siemens, Dow partner on process manufacturing digital twin testbed

OpenAI releases Triton, a programming language for AI workload optimization

Gupshup nabs $240M to power messaging channels

A new approach to preventing human-induced earthquakes

Smilegate invests $100M in That’s No Moon Entertainment with ex-Sony, Naughty Dog, and Activision devs

DeepMind’s XLearn trains AI agents to complete complex tasks

Osmos emerges from stealth to unify enterprise data

Studies show cybersecurity skills gap is widening as the cost of breaches rises

Moleaer’s nanobubbles lift RainAg’s corn yields up to 16%

Lumanu raises $12M to simplify business for the creator economy

Noetic Cyber raises $20M to automate cybersecurity remediation

Dixa nabs $105M to unify customer service channels

Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

Frequently asked questions on Extended Detection and Response

Keylime security software is deployed to IBM cloud

What will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?

Investigating materials for safe, secure nuclear power

Brain’s “memory center” is needed to recognize image sequences, but not single sights

Jeff Bezos just went to space and back

Can a motorcycle-hailing company create an African super app?

Venmo is getting rid of one of its most recognizable features

Instagram blocked the #VaccinesKill hashtag two years ago. Facebook only just now got around to doing it

Now anyone can join Clubhouse, the pandemic's hottest new social media app

Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson went to space. What's next?

Elon Musk says he's invested in bitcoin and wants to 'see it succeed'

California sues Activision Blizzard, alleging culture of sexual harassment

Prescription drugs are too expensive for many Americans. These companies are trying to change that

TikTok, Biden administration agree to drop litigation over Trump-era app store ban

Massive internet outage: FedEx, Delta and McDonald's go down

Want your unemployment benefits? You may have to submit to facial recognition first

Software vendor caught up in ransomware attack obtains decryptor key

Amazon hires outside investigators after employee petition alleges discrimination and harassment

Software company's unveiling of decryption key comes too late for many victims of devastating ransomware attack

How Taiwan is trying to defend against a cyber 'World War III'

The FTC vows to 'root out' illegal repair restrictions on phones, fridges, tractors and more

Global phone hacks expose darker side of Israel's 'startup nation' image

How GungHo launched its bubblegum fighting game Ninjala in the pandemic

With post-pandemic AI, we’ve now stepped into the Age of Acceleration

The past, present, and future of mobile ad formats

A material difference

Aurora’s SPAC merger comes amid self-driving car delays

Speechmatics: Voice Technology Is Becoming a Critical Part of the Enterprise’s Toolkit

How NASA is using knowledge graphs to find talent

Deadline 2024: Why you only have 3 years left to adopt AI

Ex-Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime: To the Blizzard women …, I am extremely sorry that I failed you

Cloud-native RPA architecture drives Automation Anywhere’s strategy

Low code: A promising trend or a Pandora’s Box?

How the Pandemic Changed The Way We Develop Products For the Better 

Dell exec: Not all workloads are heading to the cloud

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AI Weekly: OpenAI’s pivot from robotics acknowledges the power of simulation

RPA migrations hastened through API bot interactions

Phishing attacks get smarter as targets struggle to keep up

Outbrain raises $160M in IPO at $1.25B valuation for news link recommendations

The RetroBeat: How Pokémon is celebrating its 25th anniversary

How an AI entrepreneur deals with dirty real-world data

The DeanBeat: The learnings of the week in games

Latest big data developments in the realm of data lakehouse

Alphabet’s Intrinsic aims to unlock industrial robotics’ economic potential

Google’s Translatotron 2 removes ability to deepfake voices

HubSpot taps DataGrail to help users navigate tricky PII waters

“To make even the smallest contribution to improving my country would be my dream”

Why unstructured data is the future of data management

Airbnb CTO says graph neural networks will be big in 2021

Five MIT School of Science professors receive tenure for 2021

SoftBank’s Humanoid Robot Pepper Can’t Hold a Job, Gets Shelved 

Last-Mile Delivery Robots Making a Comeback After Initial Bans  

AI Being Employed to Help Clean, Avoid Collisions with Space Junk 

Tools Tapping AI for Content Marketing, Content Creation Gaining Traction 

How a sudden stratospheric warming affected the Northern Hemisphere

Lincoln Laboratory convenes top network scientists for Graph Exploitation Symposium

“Magic-angle” trilayer graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor

Reducing industrial carbon emissions

Professor Emeritus Justin “Jake” Kerwin, an expert in propeller design and ship hydrodynamics, dies at 90

Manipulating magnets in the quest for fusion

Paul Lagacé, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, dies at 63

Companies are losing the war against phishing as attacks increase in number and sophistication

With the HUMANS project, a message that space is for everyone

The environmental toll of disposable masks

Enhancing drug delivery with ultrasound

Push to make supply chains more sustainable continues to gain momentum

Lockdowns reveal inequities in opportunities for walking activities

Amazon is helping a Chinese upstart make a comeback in India after its app was banned

India is bombarding Twitter with user data requests and demands to remove content

Microsoft is bringing back Clippy

Lyft is bringing back a version of shared rides

US sues Amazon for selling dangerous products

These are the 3 most misunderstood emojis on the planet

Facebook disrupts Iranian hackers who targeted US military personnel and defense contractors

An 18-year-old is going to space with Jeff Bezos

Paytm files for India's biggest tech IPO on record

Jeff Bezos is flying to space. Here's everything you need to know

WhatsApp blocks 2 million Indian accounts in battle against spam messages

Some parents are seeking out permanent virtual school for the fall

White House turns up heat on Big Tech's Covid 'disinformation dozen'

Uber was fined $59 million over sexual assault data. Now it may pay just $150,000

More inclusive emoji, including one of a pregnant man, may be coming to smartphones

Xiaomi has Samsung in its sights after overtaking Apple in smartphone sales

Zoom strikes a $14.7 billion deal as it prepares for the post-pandemic world

How to watch Jeff Bezos go to space

Tech professionals make up to 85% more than state averages in other industries

Making it through a pandemic senior year with curiosity and community

Tencent’s TiMi opens third North American triple-A game studio in Montreal

GlobalFoundries touts U.S. chip manufacturing for supply chain and national security reasons

GDC starts today with over 550 virtual talks on game development

Cube Dev raises $15.5M to commercialize Cube.js open source data API platform

Native Voice nabs $14M to convert devices into branded voice assistants

Scopely invests $50M in 3 European mobile game studios

Psychonauts 2 hands-on — A mindful adventure

Volley’s Magic Word is a voice-based puzzle game on Google Assistant

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Season 5 is coming July 20 on Steam and PlayStation

Building MLGUI, user interfaces for machine learning applications

2021: The Year Emerging Markets Come of Age

Scaling AI and data science – 10 smart ways to move from pilot to production

Zoom to acquire cloud contact center company Five9 for $14.7B

Tencent has agreed to buy video game maker Sumo Group for $1.27B

Weighing cognitive biases and AI behavioral analytics in finance

Adobe CIO talks about watching users to enhance customer experience

Contact-aware robot design

Duke Energy used computer vision and robots to cut costs by $74M

Esri boosts digital twin tech for its GIS mapping tools

What to expect for cybersecurity investment as we emerge from the pandemic

OpenAI Codex shows the limits of large language models

Mimecast’s new AI tools protect against the sneakiest phishing attacks

A 16 year old takes his shot at Roblox fame as a native game maker

AllCloud acquires Integress to boost data analytics for cloud services

Why machine programming should be the next technology you invest in

Apple’s IDFA changes are already changing game design and monetization

Use these metrics to get the most out of your engineering team

5 tech jobs that keep going unfilled, and why they might be vacant

MIT.nano receives American Institute of Architects’s Top Ten Award for sustainable design

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing awards named professorships to two faculty members

Study highlights long road toward gender parity in the geosciences

Jassy Takes Over at Amazon, Leading to New AI Future 

AI World Executive Summit: Move to Control Personal Data Advancing 

With Machine Learning, More Business Processes Will be Automated 

Chief Compliance Officers Turn to AI for Assistance  

A noninvasive test to detect cancer cells and pinpoint their location

Study finds physicians are widely effective messengers of Covid-19 information

Getting dressed with help from robots

Memory-making involves extensive DNA breaking

3 Questions: James Poterba on making infrastructure pay off

How aspirations become actions

Restoring amputees’ natural functionality with brain-controlled interfaces

Women in STEM: Promote yourself and find mentors for success in your field

Work together to attract and retain more women in STEM careers, expert says

Custom-made MIT tool probes materials at the nanoscale

Driving commuters toward sustainable options

3 Questions: Richard Milner on the messier side of physics

Biden anti-trust executive order is a wake-up call for tech industry and big tech companies

Software to accelerate R&D

3 Questions: Secretary Kathleen Theoharides on climate and energy in Massachusetts

Sertac Karaman named director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

New directions in real estate practice

Trump is suing Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. Here's why they shouldn't worry

China is cracking down on data privacy. That's terrible news for some of its biggest tech companies

Dozens of states are suing Google over app store practices

These futuristic pods could help cities solve their traffic problems

Chinese tech stocks roiled by worsening crackdown

Instacart names Facebook exec Fidji Simo as CEO

Why it's so difficult to bring ransomware attackers to justice

Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately

Microsoft's Windows security flaw is a big deal. Here's what you can do about it

Everything you need to know about Richard Branson going to space

Twitter is a mess in India. Here's how it got there

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: 'It's time to recognize the right to repair'

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson successfully rockets to outer space

Asegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun

Tips and pitfalls of AWS cloud cost optimization

Training AI: Reward is not enough

5 years until enterprise quantum, but your prep begins now

Sandbox VR: Location virtual reality is making its comeback

Apple’s newest privacy changes mean more rework for the ad industry

How cybersecurity is getting AI wrong

The data lakehouse: A database wishlist and a rant

Informatica GM touts advances in autonomous data management

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AI brings promise and peril to customer relations management

Riot Games brings back in-person event for North American League of Legends championship

The RetroBeat: I’m finally ready to appreciate Donkey Kong Country 2

Why Redfin’s CTO, Bridget Frey, approaches D&I like an engineering project

AI Weekly: TikTok’s algorithm licensing signals China’s play for AI dominance

The tenured engineers of 2021

2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards honor MIT educators’ innovation and empathy

Scene at MIT: In a stroke of lightning, the beauty of nature and architecture

The Witcher III: Wild Hunt comes to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S this year

BASALT Minecraft competition aims to advance reinforcement learning

The DeanBeat: The week in the console and game engine wars

The game development companies Lightspeed Venture Partners is on the lookout for (VB Live)

HPE acquires Ampool to gain distributed SQL engine

Brag House launches its social network for amateur esports competitors

Public cloud security ‘just barely adequate,’ experts say

What to expect at Transform 2021, the year’s top event on enterprise AI & data 

Data consent and preferences management platform Didomi raises $40M

OpsRamp’s Ciaran Byrne on managing multicloud and hybrid environments 

Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Contract After Legal Battle Caused Delay 

Google and Microsoft End Truce; World Awaits What Happens Next  

Software Engineering Institute Moving to Formalize AI Engineering

Canadian Government Collaborates with Startups on Autonomous Trucking 

Jett: The Far Shore is the Star Trek game I want

Polyarc unveils Moss: Book II for PlayStation VR

Death Stranding: Director’s Cut launches on September 23

Arcadegeddon is a new arena shooter from Friday the 13th dev IllFonic

Having a field day

Arlene Fiore appointed first Stone Professor in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

New plasma etching system significantly expands MIT.nano process capabilities

US Air Force pilots get an artificial intelligence assist with scheduling aircrews

Global collaboration surges post-pandemic

Engineering seeds to resist drought

At the Venice Biennale, an architecture exhibition to meet the moment

Infrared cameras and artificial intelligence provide insight into boiling

Governance innovation boot camp culminates in pitch night

Microscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly

Designing exploratory robots that collect data for marine scientists

New clues to why there’s so little antimatter in the universe

Pathfinder satellite paves way for constellation of tropical-storm observers

Businesses must embrace radical change to workplace strategies or risk massive turnover

Alleged Capital One hacker faces 20 years in prison for stealing 100 million customers' data

Facial recognition tech has been widely used across the US government for years, a new report shows

Virgin Orbit launches rocket off 747 aircraft over Pacific Ocean

SpaceX launches 88 satellites in rideshare mission

Amazon wants FTC Chair Lina Khan recused from all its cases

Federal judge blocks Florida law targeting social media platforms

The FTC just took a step that could make it easier to go after Amazon

Pinterest bans ads related to weight loss

An 82-year-old woman trained to be an astronaut sixty years ago. Now she's going to space with Jeff Bezos

These telemedicine companies are changing the future of doctor visits

Those annoying robocalls aren't going to stop today. But they could slow down soon

Richard Branson will attempt to beat Jeff Bezos to space

FTC charges Broadcom with monopolizing chip industry

Richard Branson: 'I would love Jeff Bezos to come and see our flight off'

New ransomware attack targets key IT vendor

China bans Didi, its biggest ride-hailing service, from app stores

Facebook tests prompts that ask users if they're worried a friend is 'becoming an extremist'

White House urges companies affected by recent ransomware attack to report to the Internet Crime Complaint Center

Voice tech makes inroads in the enterprise

Newzoo: Game market will hit $200B in 2024

What does it take to recover a ransom?

The lessons we learn from self-driving will drive our robotics future

Dark Alliance interview — A shard (or more) of Dungeons & Dragons lore

A history lesson on security logging, from syslogd to XDR

How to avoid drowning in application sprawl 

Tesla AI chief explains why self-driving cars don’t need lidar

7 tips for managing low-code/no-code adoption in your enterprise

Robin Block: Diving deep into the golden age of first-person shooter games

Supply chain attack on Kaseya infects hundreds with ransomware: What we know

The RetroBeat: Summer Games Done Quick 2021 runs to watch

Global cloud spending boomed in Q1, surpassed non-cloud, IDC says

How new developers can tap into the wealth of new funding opportunities (VB Live)

Let’s talk about Dead Space and Hideo Kojima’s next project | GamesBeat Decides

AI Weekly: WHO outlines steps for creating inclusive AI health care systems

Biased AI is not just bad for people, it’s harmful for businesses, too

Oracle’s Autonomous Data Warehouse expansion offers potential upside for tech professionals

The DeanBeat: How fun finds a way around friction

Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns

Drake Star Partners: Game deals surpassed $60B in first half of 2021

Bling enables game devs to give players Bitcoin rewards

Logitech partners with BIPOC creators to bring down racial barriers

Animoca Brands completes funding round with an additional $50M raised

Applause: 69% say digital accessibility is high priority

Three really exciting engineering jobs open at the moment

Buzz Capital invests $594K to finance 2 game projects

Professor Emeritus Sow-Hsin Chen, global expert in neutron science and devoted mentor, dies at 86

Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT

HPE acquires Zerto for $374M to automate data protection

Synthetic biology circuits can respond within seconds

Snap's latest play in big tech's race to produce AR glasses

Giving robots better moves

Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time

Phishing Attacks Now a Focus for AI Cybersecurity Tools 

Hyperconnectivity, Not Well Understood, Ties All Smart Devices 

AI Seen as Unstoppable Force in Food Retail 

How AI is Helping Mastercard, Siemens, John Deere 

Anders Sejr Hansen awarded prestigious Pew-Stewart Grant for Cancer Research

New approach could change how we track extreme air pollution events

Three from MIT receive 2021 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

Sweat-proof “smart skin” takes reliable vitals, even during workouts and spicy meals

Some brain disorders exhibit similar circuit malfunctions

These are the tech jobs with the fastest rising salaries–and the skills employers want most

The power of two

3 Questions: Anna Jagielska on printing artificial axons

MIT and U.S. Department of Defense team up to launch a new edX learning platform

17 companies that hire remote workers and offer paid vacation perks

Security and automation are top priorities for IT professionals

LIGO and Virgo detect rare mergers of black holes with neutron stars for the first time

Letter from President Reif: A new future for edX

MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U

FAQs on agreement to sell edX to 2U, Inc. and fund nonprofit to reimagine digital learning

New face mask prototype can detect Covid-19 infection

Agustín Rayo named interim dean of SHASS

Faster Python programming: How these developers built Pyston, and where it goes next

MIT welcomes six new assistant deans for diversity, equity, and inclusion

First Solar CEO: Getting rid of Trump tariffs would pose challenges

What it's really like to be an Amazon warehouse worker during Prime Day

Microsoft reaches a $2 trillion market cap

John McAfee was not suicidal, says widow of antivirus software magnate

EU antitrust officials are investigating Google's vast ads business

Silicon Valley gave Asia's richest man billions, but things aren't all going to plan

Amazon is likely about to face a much bigger union fight

House Judiciary advances sweeping legislation to rein in and break up Big Tech

Windows 11 is here: Everything you need to know

Amazon and Google are being investigated for failing to remove fake product reviews

India's tech minister says Twitter locked him out of his account

House antitrust bills could change the internet as we know it. Here's how

John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approved

4 companies affected by security breaches in June

Looking for similarities across complex systems

Toya’s Miraculous Ladybug game gets 100M plays on Roblox

Vectorized CEO on the future of streaming data application development

Peggy Johnson interview: How Magic Leap is getting traction with its enterprise pivot

7 keys to evaluating zero trust security frameworks

DeepMind AGI paper adds urgency to ethical AI

How AI is changing the nature of analytics

Windows 11 aims to delight users but needs to establish its purpose

How reverse ETL can lighten your data load

AI Weekly: NIST proposes ways to identify and address AI bias

Kellogg exec on AI uses cases, implementation, and ‘culture change’

A new chapter for space sustainability