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Meet Apurva Shrivastava: Indian-origin engineer who turned a ‘missed call’ idea into $1 billion AI startup

In the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley, where billions are poured into chatbots and generative art, Apurva Shrivastava and Tyson Chen decided to look where few tech founders go: the local HVAC company. That decision has officially paid off. Their startup, 'Avoca', has reached a $1 billion valuation following a…

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MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MIT’s Andrew McAfee—as IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.

Fortune

Man who killed Brown students, MIT professor targeted symbolic victims tied to grievances, FBI says

Federal investigators say the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor did not act randomly, but targeted places and people that held symbolic meaning tied to his perceived failures

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Autonomous Driving Tech Is Power-Hungry. Can Modern EVs Really Handle It?

The math works out for fleets, for now. But if you want personal autonomy, expect to burn up a lot of battery.

InsideEVs

How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup

Avoca, founded by two MIT grads, brings Silicon Valley tech to trades like plumbing, roofing, and HVAC.

Fortune

Missing Scientists Mystery Hits Deadline Day as FBI and Four Agencies Must Brief Congress Today

The House Oversight Committee's 27 April deadline forces the FBI, NASA, the Energy Department, and the Pentagon to brief Congress on missing scientists. The Pentagon already states no active probes exist.

International Business Times UK

Forget your Apple Watch: 'self-powering', health-sensing fabrics that draw energy from our bodies are being worked on as the next evolution of wearables

New ’smart textiles’ could become the future of wearables for exercise and clinical health monitoring.

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12 US scientists have gone missing or died. The mystery has become the talk - and worry - of Washington

The 12 scientists who have died or gone missing all appeared to have ties to nuclear or space programs and, in some cases, classified projects. Rhian Lubin delves into the cases

The Independent UK

"Push them to the limit": MIT researchers almost double SSD performance 'for free' but only for data centers

MIT software boosts SSD speeds by shifting data between drives in large storage clusters, but it's only for use in data centers.

TechRadar

Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX

From Google intern at 18 to a billionaire at 25, Cursor CEO Michael Truell’s rise is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest.

Fortune

The Real AI Risk Isn't Job Loss — It's Poor Change Management Causing Wasted Investment

95% of internal AI pilot programs fail to boost revenue or productivity. That number comes from MIT research across 150 leadership interviews and 300 public AI deployments. The problem is not the models. It is the integration.

International Business Times

"The way we move light": Tiny optical chips smaller than a grain of salt could save data centers billions

New beam-steering chip smaller than a grain of salt could cut hardware demands in quantum computing and high-performance data centers.

TechRadar

Massachusetts is dumping sewage into waterways. Grassroots organizations are fighting back

Environmental organizations in Massachusetts are urging water officials to keep sewage out of waterways in several Boston-area communities by committing to a more modern sewer system with separate pipes for waste and storm runoff

The Independent UK

The 'Sinister' Pattern: How 'Too Coincidental' Deaths of 11 Nuclear Scientists Triggered a Multi-Agency House Probe

House Oversight Chair James Comer has launched a probe into the mysterious deaths and disappearances of 11 US scientists linked to classified nuclear and space research.

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Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago

In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

At last! Blood sugar measurements could be coming to your Apple Watch

Light just got used to measure blood glucose, for real.

Space

'Tall waves moving in slow motion': Here's how oily oceans on Saturn's giant moon Titan may behave

The size of waves on alien worlds will depend as much on the characteristics of the liquid as well as the gravity.

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I Wish More People Knew About This 2009 Sci-Fi Disaster Movie Starring Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage in a disaster movie? How could you go wrong?

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Why some leaders are betting on Gen Z for the next chapter

While other leaders complain about their Gen Z new hires, others are promoting them.

Fortune

White-collar workers are quietly rebelling against AI as 80% outright refuse adoption mandates

"AI didn't deliver," Johns Hopkins professor Steve Hanke told Fortune. "Welcome to the real world. Forget the AI bubble."

Fortune

Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout

Many employees are refusing to use AI tools, with some even admitting to tampering with performance reviews to make AI appear less effective.

Fortune

The megamanager era: AI is doubling bosses’ workloads—and the costs are just beginning to show

As AI reshapes how workplaces are organized, the gap in human talent could widen faster than anyone expects.

Fortune

AI angst mutates into 'FOBO' as Fear of Becoming Obsolete fuels quiet resistance across the economy

EY’s Joe Depa says he sees a split in staff. There’s “high adoption, right out of the gate” for juniors, but senior workers “are somewhat resistant.”

Fortune

For most workplace tasks, AI is good enough to pass but not good enough to impress, MIT finds

AI is improving fast, but it has a long way to go before it can outperform humans in demanding tasks.

Changing your T-shirt design could soon be as easy as shining a light on it

New technology could make it easier than ever to refresh your style.

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