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Joseph Paradiso thinks that the most engaging research questions usually span disciplines. Paradiso was trained as a physicist and completed his PhD in experimental high-energy physics at MIT in 1981. His father was a photographer and filmmaker working at MIT, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the MITRE Corporation, so he grew up in a house where artists, scientists, and engineers regularly gathered and interesting music was always playing. That mix of influences led him to the MIT Media Lab, where he is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor, academic head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and director of the Responsive Environments research group.At…

Here’s a look at the top 10 Singapore billionaires, according to Forbes’ latest ranking The number of billionaires in Singapore is on the rise. The Forbes 2026 World’s Billionaire list, which was released yesterday (Mar 11), revealed that there are now more billionaires than ever in the city-state: 55. This is up from 49 in 2025 and 39 in 2024—and it’s also more than double the 26 billionaires reported in 2022. The collective net worth of Singapore’s billionaires also rose, reaching approximately US$155.7 billion (S$198.14 billion) in 2026, compared with US$145.2 billion in 2025, reflecting both the growth of existing…

Travis Kalanick, the billionaire co-founder of Uber Technologies Inc., today announced the launch of a new robotics startup. Atoms Inc. is built on the assets of a company called City Storage Systems Inc. that Kalanick founded in 2016. It will reportedly also absorb Pronto AI Inc., a venture-backed autonomous driving startup. The Information reported that Atoms is set to receive “major backing” from Uber. City Storage Systems has raised more than $1 billion in equity and debt financing. Its flagship asset is a company called CloudKitchens that operates dozens of ghost kitchens in the U.S. It leases those kitchens to…

Inside an Amazon data center. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Big tech companies scored a big win in Washington state with the defeat of legislation regulating electricity rate and environmental impacts of data centers — but it lost a significant tax break for the facilities with the 11th-hour passage of Senate Bill 6231. The state’s Legislature wrapped up its 2026 session Thursday night shortly after signing off on SB 6231, which eliminates a sales tax break on equipment and labor required to refurbish existing data centers. The measure preserved tax benefits for new facilities. Dan Diorio, vice president of state…

AI did not create the problems in B2B SaaS marketing. It just made them louder, faster, and harder to ignore. Here is what AI is actually supposed to do for your marketing strategy and why almost everyone is using it wrong. Every SaaS marketing team has AI in the stack now. Most of them are using it to write more blog posts nobody reads, generate more email sequences nobody opens, and produce more ad variations nobody clicks. And then they wonder why the metrics are not moving. So before asking what AI can do for your marketing strategy, you have…

MIT researchers have developed a generative artificial intelligence-driven approach for planning long-term visual tasks, like robot navigation, that is about twice as effective as some existing techniques.Their method uses a specialized vision-language model to perceive the scenario in an image and simulate actions needed to reach a goal. Then a second model translates those simulations into a standard programming language for planning problems, and refines the solution.In the end, the system automatically generates a set of files that can be fed into classical planning software, which computes a plan to achieve the goal. This two-step system generated plans with an…

A suspected China-based cyber espionage operation has targeted Southeast Asian military organizations as part of a state-sponsored campaign that dates back to at least 2020. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the threat activity under the moniker CL-STA-1087, where CL refers to cluster, and STA stands for state-backed motivation. “The activity demonstrated strategic operational patience and a focus on highly targeted intelligence collection, rather than bulk data theft,” security researchers Lior Rochberger and Yoav Zemah said. “The attackers behind this cluster actively searched for and collected highly specific files concerning military capabilities, organizational structures, and collaborative efforts with Western…

If you’ve ever squinted at your ROG Xbox Ally X’s screen and thought that it could be a little sharper, Xbox (and Microsoft) heard you, loud and clear. In April 2026, the handheld gaming PC will get a free software update that will make your games look better. No hardware updates or additional costs included.  Xbox will release a feature called Automatic Super Resolution or Auto SR — Microsoft’s AI-powered answer to Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR — which upscales video games from 720p up to 1080p or more (via Windows Central).  Jacob Roach / Digital Trends What does the…

OpenAI plans to add its Sora video generation model directly into ChatGPT, The Information reports . The standalone Sora app was seen as a smash hit when it launched alongside Sora 2 in September 2025, but interest in the video generation app has fallen in the time since as users ran into limits on the amount and kinds of videos they could create.Adding Sora to the ChatGPT could give the model a second life, and ideally grow the ChatGPT app’s weekly active users from the 900 million OpenAI reported in February, to a billion or more. According to The Information,…

Squeezing in more dimming zones is only half the equation for great HDR. You also need as much brightness and contrast as you can crank out, and the Studio Display XDR delivers on an unprecedented level.Apple says this can go up to 2000 nits of peak brightness, and when I measured it myself with my colorimeter, it maxed out at 1905 nits in a 25 percent window. That’s really impressive. Meanwhile, it can even do 1701 nits at 49 percent and 948 nits at full screen. This is easily the brightest computer monitor I’ve ever tested. While the contrast and…