Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health,...
Read moreNearly everyone has experienced it—after a night of poor sleep, your brain might seem foggy, and your mind drifts off when you should be paying attention....
Read moreEarthquakes are driven by energy stored up in rocks over millennia—energy that, once released, we perceive mainly in the form of the ground’s shaking. But a...
Read moreLithium-ion batteries produce faint sounds as they charge, discharge, and degrade. But until now, nobody could interpret those sounds to detect when a battery might be...
Read moreConcrete already builds our world, and an MIT-invented variant known as electron-conducting carbon concrete (ec3, pronounced “e c cubed”) holds out the possibility of helping power...
Read moreFor the first time in years, Nvidia declined to introduce new GeForce graphics card models at CES. CEO Jensen Huang’s characteristically sprawling and under-rehearsed 90-minute keynote...
Read moreA Federal Communications Commission proposal to let state and local prisons jam contraband cell phones has support from Republican attorneys general and prison phone companies but...
Read moreQuantum computing pioneer D-Wave today announced an industry breakthrough in its approach to building and controlling its upcoming gate model quantum computer. One issue that the...
Read moreHot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn...
Read moreNew televisions from Amazon, Hisense, TCL, and others are designed to display fine art and look like a painting when they’re switched off. It’s all thanks...
Read moreWith the release of “reasoning” models capable of multistep, test-time compute, the intelligence required to solve complex problems is accessible via a standard API. For the...
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