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Lupe Fiasco on his new art project and looking at rap ‘in a deep academic way’

Rapper turned MIT professor is unveiling a project of ‘en plein air rapping’, which is about outdoors-inspired music

The Guardian - US

Not all degrees are worthless: These universities give you the highest odds of becoming a multimillionaire

If return-on-investment is a top priority for your college experience, you may want to consider one of these universities, where Gen Z grads can earn over $4 million in accrued earnings—and it's not Harvard.

Fortune

Researchers develop new metamaterials that pave the way to bendy, stretchable computer chips

A team of MIT researchers developed a new fabrication method that allowed to make existing materials strong but stretchy.

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MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible

Strong but stretchy, apparently.

PC Gamer

Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump

Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’

The Guardian - US

Harvard Sees $2.2 Billion In Funding Frozen After Defying Trump

Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism.

International Business Times

New York plane crash claims lives of high-achieving family celebrating a birthday

A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes

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Karenna Groff, former NCAA woman of year, is killed with her family in upstate New York plane crash

The twin-engine Mitsubishi MU-2B went down shortly after noon on Saturday in a muddy field in Copake, New York, near the Massachusetts line, killing everyone on board, NTSB officials said

The Independent UK

Former MIT Soccer Player Among Seven Killed in Upstate New York Plane Crash

A New York plane crash claimed the life of the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year.

Sports Illustrated

NCAA woman of the year included in those killed in upstate New York plane crash

The victims included Karenna Groff, who founded openPPE during Covid to create masks for essential workers

The Independent UK

Climate champion or catastrophe: Can AI ‘offset’ its own, growing emissions?

Data centre electricity demand is predicted will rise to around 945 terawatt hours by 2030, more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan.

Euronews

Once-in-century storm tides could strike Bangladesh every decade by 2100, MIT study warns

Storms that swamp vast stretches of country’s coast may become decadal norm or even more frequent

The Independent UK

Co-founder of $12 billion crypto company says Gen Z new hires 'create an absurd amount of chaos' and make him want to pull his hair out—but he's betting on them anyway

Paradigm CEO Matt Huang feels like he’s “running the X-Men Academy”. While other leaders complain about their Gen Z new hires, the crypto chief is going against the grain and promoting them into the C-suite.

Fortune

MIT invents new way for QPUs to communicate — paving the way for a scalable 'quantum supercomputer'

A new device enables remote entanglement, allowing distant quantum processors to communicate with one another with reduced error rates.

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Open-source tool designed to throttle PC and server performance based on electricity pricing — lightweight CLI will automatically limit clocks during peak hours

ML Engineer Naveen Kulandaivelu built a CLI power management app that automatically throttled his CPU and GPU based on Time of Use pricing.

The Guardian - US

Torpedo bats: a destroyer of worlds or baseball’s long-awaited savior?

The quandary over the Yankees’ new technology is solvable, but first MLB must take it on the chin and usher in a temporary ban

LiveScience

Mathematicians solve vexing 'crowd problem' that explains why public spaces devolve into chaos

Why do some crowds move in an orderly fashion while others devolve into a chaotic jumble? New research led by an MIT mathematician may finally crack the tricky crowd problem.

Windows Central

OpenAI says an excessive dependency on ChatGPT can lead to loneliness and a "loss of confidence" in decision-making

A new study by OpenAI and MIT suggests that dependency on ChatGPT can be problematic, leading to a loss of agency and confidence.

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Some ChatGPT users are addicted and will suffer withdrawal symptoms if cut off, say researchers

Chatbots like ChatGPT can be addictive and those who become dependent can suffer from withdrawal symptoms if disconnected from the service, according to a large scale study undertaken by OpenAI and MIT.

Fortune

ChatGPT might be making frequent users more lonely, study by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab suggests

Relying on ChatGPT for companionship or advice? It might be making you lonelier.

MarketBeat

Is Meta's Pushback on NVIDIA With In-House Chips Good for Shares?

Meta Platforms has started testing its in-house-made chips for AI training. Can Meta's moves to limit AI costs be a boon to the stock long term?

The Independent UK

Harvard is offering free tuition for families that make less than $200K

Harvard University has announced that students whose families make less than $200,000 won't pay tuition

PC Gamer

The future of robots is looking ever more meaty as MIT researchers grow first bidirectional muscle tissue machine

I'm already worried about how many people want to have sex with the resulting robot.

Space

How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

Space

The 1st private mission to Venus comes together ahead of possible 2026 launch (photos)

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus, Rocket Lab's Photon Spacecraft, will take on the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET."

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