Published on: 2025-04-19 09:35:05
Credits Karen G. Lloyd is the Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and professor of Earth science at the University of Southern California. This essay is adapted from her forthcoming book “Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth” (Princeton University Press, 2025). The way to spot a cold methane seep on the ocean floor is to look for the life that gathers around it, like antelopes at a savanna watering hole: clams, mussels, crabs, shrimp, fish, sea anemones and creepy, othe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 15:15:00
Google and the Department of Justice faced off again in a trial regarding whether Google has a monopoly in the advertising technology market. The trial started last fall in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, and on April 17th, 2025, Judge Brinkema ruled that Google did act illegally to acquire and maintain monopoly power in online advertising. The DOJ argued that Google unfairly locked up the market for ad tech tools that publishers and advertisers rely on to monetize their websites and m
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In Meta’s antitrust trial on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified that TikTok’s success was a risk to Meta’s business, saying the short-form video app was a “top priority” and a “highly urgent” competitive threat when it arrived in 2018, according to Bloomberg and other outlets. The reports come from a packed first week of testimony in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s trial against the social networking giant. If the FTC’s lawyers prevail, the trial could potentially require Meta to
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Heat Exchange MIT Technology Review’s guest opinion series, offering expert commentary on legal, political and regulatory issues related to climate change and clean energy. You can read the rest of the pieces here. The current 90-day pause on rolling out most of the administration’s so-called “reciprocal” tariffs presents a critical opportunity. Rather than defaulting to broad, blunt tariffs, the administration should use this window to align trade policy with a focused industrial strategy—one
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 23:11:14
Starting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust trial Monday with a bang, Daniel Matheson, the FTC's lead litigator, flagged a "smoking gun"—a 2012 email where Mark Zuckerberg suggested that Facebook could buy Instagram to "neutralize a potential competitor," The New York Times reported. And in "another banger of an email from Zuckerberg," Brendan Benedict, an antitrust expert monitoring the trial for Big Tech on Trial, posted on X that the Meta CEO wrote, "Messenger isn't beating WhatsAp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 11:00:00
Xaba, a startup building synthetic brains for industrial robots with zero code, announced it has secured a $6 million seed investment led by Hitachi Ventures. The Toronto startup said the extension to its seed round will accelerate the deployment of AI-powered robotics and cognitive industrial control systems. Hitachi Ventures led the round using funds from its new $400 million fund, with participation from Hazelview Ventures, BDC, Exposition Ventures, and Impact Venture Capital. Xaba is pion
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A long-awaited trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicks off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Judge James Boasberg will hear arguments about whether Facebook illegally monopolized the market for personal social networking services through its 2012 and 2014 acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case in late 2020, and while it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward because the government had
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In this article META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Drew Angerer | Afp | Getty Images Meta will face off against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday in a high-stakes antitrust trial that could result in the company divesting Instagram and WhatsApp. The trial in Washington is expected to last weeks and centers around the FTC's allegations that Meta monopolizes the personal social networking market. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former COO Sheryl Sand
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The case for Ozempic as a dementia buster is building. Research published this week has found that GLP-1 drugs are associated with a lower risk of dementia in people with type 2 diabetes. Researchers in Ireland led the study, a review of the existing evidence. Compared to controls (like other forms of medication or a placebo), people on GLP-1 therapy were significantly less likely to be diagnosed with dementia, the researchers found. Other scientists and pharmaceutical companies have already be
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In the race to implement AI across business operations, many enterprises are discovering that general-purpose models often struggle with specialized industrial tasks that require deep domain knowledge and sequential reasoning. While fine-tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) can help, that’s often not enough for complex use cases like supply chain. It’s a cha
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The Geography and Map Division holds a variety of printed globe gores in a variety of sizes and configurations ranging from some of the earliest examples in the 16th century to more modern examples in the 20th century. Globe gores are strips of paper containing printed maps in the sizes and shapes needed for globe construction. The maps can be either terrestrial (showing the earth) or celestial (showing the heavens) and the gores are typically football shaped. The gores can be thought of as pre-
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Implanted BCIs are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from their neurons through a wire, or via radio, to a computer. In this way, they can control a computer cursor or, in few cases, produce speech. Recently, this field has taken some strides toward real practical applications. About 25 clinical trials of BCI implants are currently underway. And this year MIT Technology Review readers have selected these brain-computer interfaces as
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Nerve cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells have the potential to reverse paralysis.Credit: IKELOS GmbH/Dr. Christopher B. Jackson/SPL A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury. The Japanese man was one of four individuals in a first-of-its-kind trial that used reprogrammed stem cells to treat people who are paralysed. Another man can now move his arms and legs following the treatment, but the two others d
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Terrestrial Energy, a small nuclear startup, merged with an acquisition company on Wednesday. The North Carolina-based company is developing small modular reactors and expects to net $280 million from the deal. Before the SPAC merger, Terrestrial Energy had raised $94 million, according to PitchBook. The combined entity expects to list on Nasdaq under the symbol IMSR. The ticker is a reference to Terrestrial Energy’s flavor of small modular reactor (SMR), which it calls an integral molten salt
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Terrestrial Energy, a small nuclear startup, merged with an acquisition company on Wednesday. The North Carolina-based company is developing small modular reactors and expects to net $280 million from the deal. Before the SPAC merger, Terrestrial Energy had raised $94 million, according to PitchBook. The combined entity expects to list on Nasdaq under the symbol IMSR. The ticker is a reference to Terrestrial Energy’s flavor of small modular reactor (SMR), which it calls an integral molten salt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 22:36:55
Aletiq has raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates). The French startup is announcing the founding round today. Aletiq has been developing product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturing industrial companies working in aerospace, automotive, electronics, luxury and more. When you think about aerospace companies, chances are the first names that come to mind are giant companies like Airbus and Boeing. But t
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Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission claimed that it could not pursue a case against Amazon due to the large resource and budget cuts being made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. However, in a bizarre reversal, the company took back its previous statements, claiming that the FTC did, indeed, have the resources to move forward with the case. The trial case in question involves Amazon’s alleged manipulative practices in signing users up for subscriptions. At a hearing
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You never hear “100%” in medicine. The trial was the most successful we’ve ever seen for HIV prevention. The drug was safe, too (it’s already approved to treat HIV infections). And it only needed to be injected twice a year to offer full protection. This week, the results of a small phase I trial for once-yearly lenacapavir injections were announced at a conference in San Francisco. These early “first in human” trials are designed to test the safety of a drug in healthy volunteers. Still, the r
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is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Attorneys at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked a federal judge Wednesday to delay its consumer protection trial against Amazon by two months, saying that staffing losses and a possible office move could hinder its ability to prepare. “We have lost employees in the agency, i
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The Federal Trade Commission is moving to push back a trial set to determine if Amazon tricked customers into signing up for Prime subscriptions. At a Zoom status hearing on Wednesday, the FTC officially asked US District Judge John Chun to delay the trial. According to the FTC's attorney, Jonathan Cohen, the agency needs two months to prepare beyond the September 22 start date, blaming recent "staffing and budgetary shortfalls" stemming from the Trump administration’s Department of Government
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SemiAnalysis is hosting an Nvidia Blackwell GPU Hackathon on Sunday March 16th. It is the ultimate playground for Blackwell PTX tech enthusiasts, offering hands-on exploration of Blackwell & PTX infrastructure while collaborating on open-source projects. Speakers will include Philippe Tillet of OpenAI, Tri Dao of TogetherAI, Horace He of Thinking Machines, and more. Sponsored by: Together, Lambda, Google Cloud, Nvidia, GPU Mode, Thinking Machines, OpenAI, PyTorch, Coreweave, Nebius. Apply to be
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Protecting your privacy online is important, and learning how to use a virtual private network (VPN) is an excellent way to start the process. VPNs mask your online activities by issuing you an IP from another location, encrypting data, and sending your requests through their server networks. They make it harder for third parties to track you, making you less likely to become a victim of eavesdropping or for your personal information to be exploited by marketers. They also help stop internet ser
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More consolidation is playing out in the security industry as platform players scoop up technology to give them deeper expertise in growing business areas. On Thursday, Armis, a $4.2 billion specialist in cyber exposure management, said it would be acquiring Otorio, a specialist in securing industrial and physical environments. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but sources close to the transaction tell TechCrunch that Armis — which is based in San Francisco but has roots in Israel — is
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A federal judge rejected Elon Musk's request to block OpenAI's planned conversion from a nonprofit to for-profit entity but expedited the case so that Musk's core claims can be addressed in a trial before the end of this year. Musk had filed a motion for preliminary injunction in US District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that OpenAI's for-profit conversation "violates the terms of Musk's donations" to the company. But Musk failed to meet the burden of proof needed for
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Apple TV+ is currently airing Severance season two, a hit that’s even surpassed Ted Lasso in viewer numbers. But if you haven’t yet tried Apple’s streaming service, there are a variety of ways to access Apple TV+ completely free—from trials and free periods to ongoing subscriptions. Here’s how. 7-day free trial from Apple This is the simplest way to get started with Apple TV+. If you’ve never previously subscribed to Apple TV+, you’re entitled to a free 7-day trial. This trial applies automat
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Qualcomm unveiled its new Qualcomm Dragonwing brand for its products in the industrial, embedded IoT, enterprise and networking markets. Don McGuire, chief marketing officer at Qualcomm, said the designer of semiconductor chips already has its Snapdragon brand, but now it is breaking out another brand in Dragonwing that represents a significant step in its journey to e
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