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S7S8 | � | | S9S10 | � | | S11S12 | � | | S13Columbia University's Impossible Position   At Columbia University, administrators and pro-Palestinian students occupying the main quad on campus are in a standoff. President Minouche Shafik has satisfied neither those clamoring for order nor those who want untrammeled protests. Yet a different leader may not have performed any better. The tensions here between free-speech values and antidiscrimination law are unusually complex and difficult, if not impossible, to resolve.Shafik presides over a lavishly funded center of research, teaching, civic acculturation, and student activism. Such institutions cannot thrive without strong free-speech cultures. Neither can they thrive without limits on when and where protests are permitted—especially when protesters disrupt the institution as a tactic to get what they want. As Shafik told Congress in recent testimony, "Trying to reconcile the free-speech rights of those who want to protest and the rights of Jewish students to be in an environment free of harassment or discrimination has been the central challenge on our campus, and many others, in recent months."
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S14A Prominent Free-Speech Group Is Fighting for Its Life  PEN America has now canceled its annual World Voices festival, after calling off its literary-awards ceremony last week. Can it survive?In 2015, PEN America, the organization devoted to defending free speech, chose to honor the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at its annual gala. A few months earlier, Islamic extremists had murdered 12 people at the publication's offices in Paris. The rationale for recognizing the magazine seemed airtight: People had been killed for expressing themselves, and PEN America's mission is to protect people targeted for what they express. For some writers connected with the organization, however, this reasoning was not so obvious. Six of them boycotted the gala, and 242 signed a letter of protest. In their eyes, Charlie Hebdo's editorial staff, including those recently killed, embodied a political perspective that was unworthy of plaudits. The magazine frequently mocked Islam (and, in particular, caricatured the Prophet Muhammad), and this was a form of punching down, insulting a population that, as the letter put it, "is already marginalized, embattled, and victimized."
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| � | | S15Starlink competitor unveils new internet satellite  Satellite internet startup Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online — and it just unveiled the satellite that could be the key to its success.
The digital divide: An internet connection means access to jobs, education, entertainment, and more, but nearly 3 billion people aren’t online, and many others still don’t have fast, reliable service.
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S16 | � | | S17S18Neuroscience Says You Can Improve Your Memory With Emotion (but There's 1 Important Catch)  In today's fast-paced organizational environments, the ability to retain information effectively and utilize it in decision-making is crucial. Neuroscience research reveals that integrating emotion and meaning into information can significantly enhance memory and performance. This insight can transform training, communication, and leadership in the workplace.
Emotions play a pivotal role in how memories are formed and recalled. Plenty of studies have shown that emotional experiences tend to be remembered more vividly and for longer periods. When information is linked to an emotional context, it engages more of the brain, including areas like the amygdala, which processes emotions, and the hippocampus, critical for memory formation.Â
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S192 Words Explain Why Netflix Just Announced an Unexpected and Controversial Change  This week, Netflix reported its first-quarter earnings. The numbers were basically good, but the real news came as Netflix told investors it was planning to make an unexpected and somewhat controversial change: It will no longer disclose how many subscribers it has starting in 2025.
To put that in context, subscriber growth has always been the way to measure a streaming service, mostly because it was the way streaming services wanted to be measured. For years, they focused on how many new people were signing up for their service, even if they weren't yet making a profit. Making content is expensive, but as long as you can get more people to pay to watch the content, you'll be fine. Or, at least, that's the argument.
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S206 Steps to Boost Your Flow State and Make You Super Focused and Productive  In today's fast-paced business world, managing oneself effectively has become a cornerstone of productivity. If you don't master yourself--your work habits, mindset, communication style, and even the activities you choose to engage in--you won't run on all cylinders.
It's all about finding smart ways to work rather than working harder and longer to perform at your best. For example, bouncing around from one useless meeting to another is certainly a threat to the sacredness of time. But there are many other threats that could steal our time and rob us of our productivity. A few examples:
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S21With 10 Words, Google Head of Search Prabhakar Raghavan Just Taught a Profound Lesson About Success  Last month, Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan called an all-hands meeting for the company's search employees to talk about the future. What he had to say was sobering, but he accompanied his message with a call-to-arms designed to inspire his employees to put in their best effort and face the future with optimism and determination. Whatever happens with Google search, his comments are a lesson in how to motivated the people who work for you to reach for success, even when dealing with recent failures.
What do you say to your team when your own errors, uncontrollable outside forces, or a combination of both leads to business results that weren't what you hoped for? You acknowedge the problem, regroup, and ask people to focus on the future. That's exactly what Raghavan did in two simple sentences: "I cannot tell you that all the stumbles are behind us. What matters is how we respond and what we learn."
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S22Adam Grant Says This Is the Biggest Myth About Leadership  During my decade-long career as a professional basketball player, I saw a leadership pattern different from the one prevalent outside the sports arena. In business, both in the corporate world and as an entrepreneur, I've often watched the wrong individuals get promoted into leadership roles, not for their standout qualities to lead but because they were the loudest in the room, the most extroverted, and the ones who mastered the art of commanding a space with their presence and charm.
Sports, in contrast, operate on a different set of rules. You can't bluff your way through a competition with mere words on the court. Hard work and dedication, leading by example, and trusting the process while steering away from immediate gratification are non-negotiables. This environment breeds a different type of leader, a leader who speaks through actions rather than words, setting a standard for the team to follow. Particularly in team sports, the best leaders I've seen improve everyone around them.
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S233 Key Business Areas Cybersecurity Falls Short  Putting your finger on exactly what drives business success is impossible because success is driven by a combination of factors. However, there is one thing that can compromise business resilience and your trajectory--cyber risk. Here are three key areas that drive business success and are at risk without an approach to network security that is designed for modern networks and operating models.Â
According to the most recent numbers available from the National Science Board, on a global basis, the U.S. leads in research and development with U.S. businesses spending over $608 billion on innovation in 2021--a 12 percent increase from the prior year. And these investments pay off. The top 50 companies in BCG's 2023 Most Innovative Companies report outperform on shareholder return by 3.3 percent per year.
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S24How to Write a Winning Job Description  Leaders frequently complain that they aren't attracting the caliber of talent they want. Many assume it's a recruiting problem. But what they're overlooking is the source of the information candidates first see: the job description. Â
The written job description informs your candidate's decision to either move forward or look elsewhere for a job. Therefore, if written hastily or handed off to someone unqualified to write it, the search process may not turn up top talent. Â
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S25Quickly Improve Your Productivity Skills With These Effective Task Optimization Tips  The completion of tasks can be slowed, hindered, or stopped by even the slightest of environmental changes. Case in point: How do you go about your day when there's an unforeseen disruption to internet service in your building? Â
Writing an email on your desktop computer seems like an easy enough task. But that's only the case if the electricity is flowing, your computer has an up-to-date operating system, and your keyboard works.Â
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S26S27Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia has plans to do just that.
Russia's vote against the resolution was no surprise. As one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, Russia has veto power over any resolution that comes before the body. China abstained from the vote, and 13 other members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution.
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S28School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant Controversial gunshot-detection company ShotSpotter has deployed more than 25,000 microphones across 170 cities worldwide. This week, WIRED and South Side Weekly revealed the company may continue to provide gunshot data to police in cities even after contracts have ended. Internal emails seen by the publications suggest ShotSpotter sensors may have stayed online despite law enforcement deals having expired, raising questions about what will happen to 2,500 microphones in Chicago when its contract runs out at the end of the year.
Elsewhere, Change Healthcare finally admitted to paying a ransom to the AlphV hackers, also known as BlackCat, that extorted the medical company. Weeks ago, WIRED revealed the attackers were paid $22 million, one of the largest ransomware payments ever. However, in a statement this week the company admitted for the first time that it paid the ransom as part of its effort "to do all it could to protect patient data from disclosure." Some of that data still found its way onto the dark web.
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S291 in 3 Americans Live in Areas With Dangerous Air Pollution This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Within five miles of Kim Gaddy's home in the South Ward of Newark, New Jersey, lies the nation's third-busiest shipping port, 13th-busiest airport, and roughly a half-dozen major roadways. All told, transportation experts say, the area where Gaddy and her neighbors live sees an average of roughly 20,000 truck trips each day.
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S30Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Shades Get a Fresh Blast of AI Meta’s newest smart glasses, developed in partnership with Ray-Ban, have been newly fleshed out with more AI features. This week, Meta started rolling out an over-the-air update to its second generation of smart sunglasses that gives the wearables some new capabilities.
The biggest update is the Meta AI with Vision feature, which incorporates Meta’s ChatGPT-enabled AI assistant into the spectacles. Owners of the smart glasses will be able to activate an AI voice assistant, fiddle with (nearly) real-time translation, and identify stuff in the wearer’s vision. It all sounds very futuristic for sunglasses, though users have reported that, like all these newfangled AI systems, some features work better than others.
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S31The Best New Albums of Spring 2024 One assurance of navigating the vast expanse of social media is that The Discourse never stops. It's: death, taxes, and never-ending discourse. Mass consensus is all but extinct. More than anything, fandoms dictate so much of conversation today.
Even so, spring has been a particularly fertile time for music drops: Drake released a diss record that featured an AI 2Pac (it's terrible), Taylor Swift issued her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department (also not that great), and Pharrell, the ultimate polymath, quietly released an album that was available exclusively via a promotional website, forgoing the route of major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music (which is probably why you are just now hearing about it). Oh! Song lyrics, apparently, are also getting dumber.
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S32The 25 Best iPad Accessories (2024): Cases, Keyboards, Chargers, and Hubs If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED
One of the best parts of owning an iPad is that you're never short on accessories. There's a wealth of cases, cables, adapters, styli, keyboards, and stands out there to trick out your slate. But what should you buy? I've spent years filling a corner of my tiny New York apartment with boxes of gear to find the best iPad accessories. Whether you're a longtime iPad owner or recently picked one up after perusing our Best iPad guide, there's something here for you.
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S33Ceretone Core One OTC Hearing Aids Review: Tiny and Barely Useful If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED
Indiegogo-backed Ceretone is yet another hearing aid company aimed at people looking for a low-cost, low-complexity way to give their hearing a boost. At $349 for a pair—or $229 for a single ear's aid—the tiny hearing aids are designed to have only a modest impact on hearing. Fortunately, they also make an equally modest impact on the wallet.
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S3410 Best Robot Vacuums (2024): Mops, Budget Vacs, Great Mapping If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED
No other product I've tested has advanced as quickly as the humble robot vacuum. Just a few short years ago, they were mostly annoying, overpriced devices that fell off steps and got stuck on rugs. Now you can find robot vacs at every price point with an incredible array of features, including mapping capabilities, self-emptying bins, and even cameras.
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S357 Best Sleeping Pads (2024): For Camping, Backpacking, and Travel What are these sleeping pads you speak of? When I was young, all hiking was uphill both ways and everyone slept on the ground in sleeping bags with only a half-inch of thin closed-cell foam between us and every pebble. We also filtered our water with our teeth and ate mainly raw meat and foraged ramps. Kids these days.
Still, I suppose there is something to be said for a comfy sleeping pad at the end of a long day on the trail, or even in the campsite next to your car. There are now many ways to make sure no peas (or pebbles) ever disturb your sleep in the outdoors. For years, we've been testing sleeping pads of all varieties in all kinds of conditions, and we're happy to report that in all this time we've never had one fail on us. That said, there are some standouts and a few to avoid.
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S36There's never been a better time to get into Fallout 76  War never changes, but Fallout 76 sure has. The online game that launched to a negative reception with no NPCs but plenty of bugs has mutated in new directions since its 2018 debut. Now it’s finding new life thanks to the wildly popular Fallout TV series that debuted a couple of weeks ago.
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S37How America Lost Sleep  Many Americans are reporting that they'd feel better if they slept more, but finding the right remedy isn't always simple.This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
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S38Trump Is Getting What He Wants  At today's hearing on Donald Trump's claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority appeared poised to give him what he most desires in the case: further delays that virtually preclude the chance that he will face a jury in his election-subversion case before the November election.But the nearly three hours of debate may be even more significant for how they would shape a second Trump term if he wins reelection. The arguments showed that although the Court's conservative majority seems likely to reject Trump's claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, four of the justices appear predominantly focused on limiting the possibility that future presidents could face such charges for their actions in office, with Chief Justice John Roberts expressing more qualified sympathy with those arguments. Among the GOP-appointed justices, only Amy Coney Barrett appeared concerned about the Court potentially providing a president too much protection from criminal proceedings.
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S39The Happiness Trinity  This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Sign up here.After writing about how and why Americans are depressed, I thought I'd turn things around for a change. What matters most for happiness—marriage, money, or something else entirely?
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S40No One Has a Right to Protest in My Home  As a constitutional scholar and the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, I strongly defend the right to speak one's mind in public forums. But the rancorous debate over the Israel-Hamas war seems to be blurring some people's sense of which settings are public and which are not. Until recently, neither my wife—Catherine Fisk, a UC Berkeley law professor—nor I ever imagined a moment when our right to limit a protest at a dinner held at our own home would become the subject of any controversy.Ever since I became a law-school dean, in 2008, the two of us have established a custom of inviting each class of first-year students over for a meal. These dinners help create and reinforce a warm community, and, to accommodate all students, they take place on many evenings during the year. The only exceptions were in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID. So last year and this year, at the request of the presidents of the third-year classes, we organized make-up dinners on three successive nights and invited each of the 400 graduating students to attend one.
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