How the web’s efforts to grow to be extra hospitable to visually-impaired customers aren’t working

NASA has launched the second set of photos taken by the James Webb House Telescope, revealing galaxies, planets, and stars in unprecedented element.

The brand new footage embody an unimaginable examine of the ambiance of a fuel large planet 1,000 light-years from Earth, known as WASP-96 b, a dying star throwing off its outer layers, and an beautiful view of Stephan’s Quintet, a gaggle of 5 galaxies about 300 million light-years from Earth. Check out them right here.

—Jonathan O’Callaghan

AI’s progress isn’t the identical as creating human intelligence in machines

The time period “synthetic intelligence” actually has two meanings. AI refers each to the elemental scientific quest to construct human intelligence into computer systems and to the work of modeling huge portions of information. These two endeavors are very totally different, each of their ambitions and within the quantity of progress they’ve made lately.

The majority of the speedy progress right now is in data-centric AI, and we’ve acquired a powerful line-up of individuals making inroads within the area on this yr’s MIT Know-how Evaluate 35 Innovators Below 35. Learn extra about their work and what’s wanted to assist them to achieve this essay by Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI.

This essay is a part of MIT Know-how Evaluate’s 2022 Innovators Below 35 bundle recognizing essentially the most promising younger folks working in expertise right now. See the total listing right here.

The must-reads

I’ve combed the web to search out you right now’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.

1 Twitter is suing Elon Musk
The corporate stated it “bent over backwards” to provide him the information he requested for. (WSJ $)
+ It additionally claims loads of the information he requested for is basically ineffective, anyway. (NY Magazine)
+ The case can be heard in Delaware, the place many company rulings are thrashed out. (NYT $)
+ A fond look again at a few of Twitter’s wildest moments. (The Guardian)
+ Twitter “relished” being Donald Trump’s favourite platform, a former worker informed the Jan 6 committee. (WP $)

2 The web is failing visually impaired customers
Tweaks to net pages designed to assist typically find yourself hindering as a substitute. (NYT $)

3 Sri Lanka has warned residents to not use crypto amid its political chaos
Unhealthy information for Sri Lankans who invested in crypto after their native foreign money tanked. (TechCrunch)
+ Crypto corporations are leaning towards litigation. (Protocol)
+ Actor Seth Inexperienced reportedly misplaced useful NFTs as a part of a multi-million greenback rip-off. (Motherboard)
+ Snap is experimenting with including NFTs to its platform. (FT $)

4 Aware expertise remains to be one in all AI’s greatest obstacles
Primarily as a result of some consultants argue it’s distinctive to people. (CNET)
+ What an octopus’s thoughts can educate us about AI’s final thriller. (MIT Know-how Evaluate) 

5 How Trump’s tweets have come again to chunk him
His message encouraging followers to hitch his protest has been introduced as key proof to the January 6 committee. (The Atlantic $)
+ Trump’s aides repeatedly informed him he was flawed, however he carried on anyway. (Wired $)
+ The 76-year previous remains to be the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination. (New Yorker $)

6 China’s recruiters are livestreaming vacancies to determined jobseekers
Thousands and thousands are tuning in within the hopes of securing a brand new job. (SCMP)
+ China needs to regulate how its well-known livestreamers act, converse, and even gown. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)

7 India’s rural employees are being punished by a glitchy authorities app 
It typically doesn’t work in poorly-connected areas and sometimes crashes. (Remainder of World)
+ The villagers combating to outlive India’s lethal heatwaves. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)

8 Sensor-equipped sea turtles make helpful cyclone trackers
And supply useful perception into the ocean’s altering construction, too. (Hakai Journal)

9 An unmanned plane has spent 26 days airborne
The Airbus craft has damaged its personal report within the course of. (BBC)

10 In reward of 80s online game compilations 
They don’t make ‘em like they used to. (The Guardian)

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