![]() + What will be AI’s impact on work more generally? ( Wired $) Good luck telling the difference between real and artificial voices these days. Mifepristone will remain available-but the fight to keep it on the market isn’t settled yet. ( Vox)ĥ The Supreme Court has preserved abortion pill access, for now + Fear not: tech workers are still hugely in demand in the wider economy. ![]() + Lyft is laying off 1,200 people. ( NYT $) Tech companies claim there are now too many supervisors, and not enough work for them all. + Listen to our podcast that delves into the mystery surrounding covid’s origins. ( MIT Technology Review)Ĥ Tech layoffs are coming for middle managers + Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy. ( MIT Technology Review) Three years on, we still don’t know how the pandemic started. + How Twitter helped to fuel the Silicon Valley Bank run. ( Axios)ģ China is still hampering efforts to study covid + Twitter is removing inaccurate labels calling prominent news organizations ‘state-funded’. ( NYT $) ![]() + He’s reignited his reputation for risk in the past week. ( WSJ $) + Musk has sucked the life out of Twitter. ( The Atlantic $) Now they just show you’ve paid a billionaire $8. + Inside the cozy but creepy world of VR sleep rooms. ( MIT Technology Review)Ģ Elon Musk has turned blue checks into a source of embarrassment I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.ġ How Apple plans to entice you to buy its headsetīy packing it with tons of features, and hoping buyers might find something they like. Luckily, such a voice exists in mathematician and concert pianist Eugenia Cheng, who has written a number of books that aim to demystify math. ![]() What you really need is a sympathetic voice-the testimony of one who has climbed the heights of abstract math but also has the patience to guide a newcomer. No wonder, then, that it’s so hard to find accessible math textbooks. There’s even a general derision toward those who seek useful application. Mathematicians speak of their profession in quasi-religious terms. There’s an undeniably mystical quality to math. How to bring the lofty ideas of pure math down to earth ![]()
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