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Researchers at MIT have developed a Jedi mind control system that allows you to control a drone by just twisting and lifting your forearm.

This System Lets You Fly a Drone With Arm Gestures

By Victor Tangermann

A neural network trained by MIT researchers found that reopening the economy right now would result in an "exponential explosion" of COVID-19 cases.

MIT: Reopening Too Soon Could Cause “Explosion” of Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at MIT's Dream Lab are working on a wearable device that can track and interact with dreams in a number of ways for our benefit.

MIT Scientists Are Building Devices to Hack Your Dreams

By Victor Tangermann

MIT is working on self-driving technology that allows cars to "see" through the ground up to a depth of ten feet below the surface of the road.

Self-Driving Vehicles

MIT Tech Lets Self-Driving Cars “See” Under Surface of Road

By Victor Tangermann

MIT released a massive report about the university's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Along with publishing the report, MIT also suspended engineer Seth Lloyd.

MIT Suspends Another Professor for Epstein Ties

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientists developed a system of lasers that works like a remote ultrasound system: it can peer into a patient's body without touching them.

MIT Scientists Can Look at Your Insides From a Distance

By Dan Robitzski

In a video uploaded by MIT's Biomimetics department, nine Mini Cheetah robots can be seen rustling up some autumn leaves and doing the occasional backflip.

Watch a Pack of MIT’s Mini Robots Cavort in Autumn Leaves

By Victor Tangermann

Now, Motherboard reports, MIT students are calling for the termination of a third academic associated with Epstein — this one even closer to the financier.

Students Demand MIT Fire Prof Who Visited Epstein in Prison

By Jon Christian

MIT researchers have created a fleet of robot cubes that can move autonomously, climbing, spinning, and even jumping to form shapes.

Watch MIT’s Robot Cubes Self-Assemble Into Structures

By Kristin Houser

Arctic sea ice caps are influencing weather elsewhere.

Report: MIT Violated Law By Dumping Dangerous Chemicals

By Victor Tangermann

Richard Stallman, who only recently reversed his position that kids and adults should have sex, resigned from MIT after backlash for comments on Epstein.

MIT Researcher Who Defended Sex With Children Resigns

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientist Richard Stallman backpedaled his statements on the Jeffrey Epstein debacle, clarifying that adults shouldn't have sex with kids.

MIT Scientist Says He Doesn’t Think Pedophilia Is Okay Any More

By Dan Robitzski

MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence

Science & Energy

MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at MIT invented a chameleon-like "reprogrammable ink" that allows you to "paint" colors onto a surface using a projector and UV light.

New Tech Can Switch Your Car’s Paint Job “Like a Chameleon”

By Victor Tangermann

An MIT-funded robotic agriculture project that promised anybody the instant ability to successfully grow food is snake oil, according to Business Insider.

Report: MIT’s Much-Hyped Robotic Agriculture Project is a Sham

By Victor Tangermann

MIT's autonomous boats can now shapeshift, starting in one configuration, separating, and then joining up to form a new configuration.

Self-Driving Vehicles

MIT’s Fleet of Autonomous Boats Can Now Shapeshift

By Kristin Houser

This Website Will Turn Your Face Into a Renaissance Portrait

Artificial Intelligence

This Website Will Turn Your Face Into a Renaissance Portrait

By Victor Tangermann

A new pizza AI out of MIT can look at a photo of pizza and determine the ingredients on it as well as the order in which they were added.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT’s New AI Can Look at a Pizza, and Tell You How to Make It

By Kristin Houser

In a new interview, "The Simulation Hypothesis" author and MIT professor Rizwan Virk asserts it's more likely we're living in a simulation than not.

MIT Prof: It’s More Likely We’re Living in a Simulation Than Not

By Jon Christian

An airplane wing created from hundreds of identical cube-like structures has the ability to change shape automatically depended on the phase of flight.

Advanced Transport

NASA and MIT Debut Shape-Shifting Airplane Wing

By Kristin Houser

Though Google's Project Dragonfly made headlines, a number of American scientists are helping Chinese build its ubiquitous surveillance state.

Americans Built Tech for China’s Sinister “Re-Education Camps”

By Dan Robitzski

A team from MIT and Harvard has created a robot hand that's not only strong, but also soft — and it could usher in a new era in robotics.

New Robot Hand Works Like a Venus Flytrap to Grip Objects

By Kristin Houser

MIT's mini cheetah robot is the first four-legged bot to execute a perfect backflip — and watching it learn that skill is incredible entertaining.

See MIT’s Robot Land a Perfect Backflip — and Mangle Many Others

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at MIT came up with a high-tech pill that can release periodic doses of insulin in the stomach thanks to an integrated needle.

Health & Medicine

MIT Invents Smart Pill That Injects Insulin Into Your Stomach

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from MIT have created a smart pill that expands in the stomach — and they have no shortage of ideas for how it could improve human health.

Health & Medicine

This Smart Pill Grows 100 Times Bigger Once It’s in Your Stomach

By Kristin Houser

Thanks to AI, MIT’s New Robot Could Beat You at Jenga

Thanks to AI, MIT’s New Robot Could Beat You at Jenga

By Victor Tangermann

A team from MIT found a way to use a laser to transmit audio across a room — without anyone between the person and source of the laser hearing it.

Science & Energy

MIT Used a Laser to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person’s Ear

By Kristin Houser

What happened next was weird, even by the standards of super-dense celestial objects from which not even light can escape: the black hole started to shrink.

A Black Hole Inhaled a Star. Then It Started to Shrink

By Jon Christian

A collaboration between MIT and two energy companies is encouraging interdisciplinary research to fast-track the development of practical fusion power.

Science & Energy

MIT Is Pouring Resources Into Commercializing Fusion Power

By Jon Christian

By watching a black hole devour a star, researchers from MIT were able to determine that it's spinning faster than 50 percent the speed of light.

Here’s Why MIT Scientists Are Watching a Black Hole Devour a Star

By Kristin Houser

MIT Figured out a Way to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale

Science & Energy

MIT Figured out a Way to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale

By Kristin Houser

Using a virus to manufacture computer components could introduce a new type of memory that doesn't cause as many delays as current systems.

MIT Scientists Used a Biological Virus to Make Faster Computers

By Dan Robitzski

MIT wants to allow internet users to give commands to a real-life hired actor on Halloween. Terrible idea or fascinating social experiment?

Virtual Reality

MIT Will Let You Control a Real-Life Actor By Giving Them Commands

By Victor Tangermann

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful

By Victor Tangermann

How to Generate (Almost) Anything is collaborating with their custom AI systems to bring bizarre foods, clothes, and art into the real world.

Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Researchers Bringing Bizarre AI Creations to Life

By Dan Robitzski

MIT announced a billion-dollar initiative Monday that will reorganize the tech school to confront the rise of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Pledges $1 Billion to Develop Ethical AI

By Jon Christian

Expert: To Understand an Algorithm, Treat It Like an Animal

Artificial Intelligence

Expert: To Understand an Algorithm, Treat It Like an Animal

By Jon Christian

Scientists are arguing about whether you be allowed to publish a paper that could be used to bring back a virus that could cause a deadly pandemic.

Health & Medicine

Microbiologists Are Suddenly Really, Really Worried About Synthetic Smallpox

By Jon Christian

Mindstrong says its app can analyze your typing and scrolling to find signs of depression and anxiety. But it hasn't shared much data to support that.

Health & Medicine

This Startup Says Its App Can Detect Signs of Depression and Anxiety. Experts Aren’t Sure.

By Jon Christian

MIT researchers have created Fiberbots, autonomous robots that can weave fiberglass into tall tubes that we could one day use for construction projects.

These Robots Weave Super Durable Fiberglass Structures So Humans Don’t Have To

By Kristin Houser

MIT data scientists say a new approach that uses deep learning to detect credit card fraud could cut false positives in half.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Could Stop Your Bank From Freezing Your Card When You Buy Something Weird

By Jon Christian

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they've created a neural network that can explain the steps it took to solve a problem.

Advanced Transport

This Advanced Neural Network Can Explain Its Thought Process (Finally)

By Jon Christian

MIT’s New Robot Can Visually Understand Objects It’s Never Seen Before

Artificial Intelligence

MIT’s New Robot Can Visually Understand Objects It’s Never Seen Before

By Kristin Houser

Airplane Noise Can Be Reduced With a Simple Solution

Advanced Transport

Airplane Noise Can Be Reduced With a Simple Solution

By Claudia Geib

MIT Engineers Develop Glowing Plants Using Nanoparticles

MIT Engineers Develop Glowing Plants Using Nanoparticles

By Chelsea Gohd

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MIT Researchers Develop a System That Can Store Thermal Energy for Hours

MIT Has a Radical New Design for a Martian City

MIT Has a Radical New Design for a Martian City

By Chelsea Gohd

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MIT Has Started Issuing Diplomas Using Blockchain Technology

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Science & Energy

MIT’s “Innovation Orchard” is Investing $200 Million in Tough Tech Startups

IBM Just Committed $240 Million to the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

IBM Just Committed $240 Million to the Future of Artificial Intelligence

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This Biotech Clothing Automatically Ventilates When You Start to Sweat

MIT Has Developed a Robot that Can Find the Leak in Any Pipe System

MIT Has Developed a Robot that Can Find the Leak in Any Pipe System

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Science & Energy

Tech Leaders Say You Could Be Storing Data in Your DNA in the Next 10 Years

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Artificial Intelligence

MIT is Trying to Unlock the Power of the “Hive Mind”

By Kathleen Riley

MIT Unveils New Material That’s Strongest and Lightest On Earth

Science & Energy

MIT Unveils New Material That’s Strongest and Lightest On Earth

By June Javelosa

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Robots and Machines

More Than Human: Scientist is Building Animal-Like Machines to Save Lives

By June Javelosa

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Robots and Machines

New Artificial Muscles From MIT Bring HBO’s Westworld Closer to Reality

By Jelor Gallego

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Self-Driving Vehicles

MIT’s “Moral Machine” Lets You Decide Who Lives & Dies in Self-Driving Car Crashes

By June Javelosa

MIT’s New Radio Can Detect Your Emotions Using Wireless Signals

Science & Energy

MIT’s New Radio Can Detect Your Emotions Using Wireless Signals

By June Javelosa

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Robots and Machines

MIT’s New Imaging Method Could Let You Read Closed Books

By Jelor Gallego

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Robots and Machines

MIT Accidentally Discovered A New Way To Make Metal

By Jelor Gallego

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Robots and Machines

MIT Scientists Create Smart Window that Can Shut Out Light

New Interactive Dynamic Tech Lets You Actually ‘Touch’ a Video

Virtual Reality

New Interactive Dynamic Tech Lets You Actually ‘Touch’ a Video

MIT Sensor Can Tell You How Much Energy Each Light, Appliance, And Device Uses

MIT Sensor Can Tell You How Much Energy Each Light, Appliance, And Device Uses

By Cecille De Jesus