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Ever looked at a giant spreadsheet and thought, “There’s gotta be a faster way to go through all this”? You’re not alone—and you’re…Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:From data extraction to visualization—everything was built without external tools, just Python libraries and a weekend of obsession.Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Why Static Typing in Python Doesn’t Guarantee Safety—and How to Use Mypy RightContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Prepare (your) children for a future where AI literacy is as essential as reading and writingContinue reading on Bootcamp »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Why artificial intelligence might need vulnerability, not power, to actually think.Continue reading on Bootcamp »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:One broken automation script made me rethink everything I knew about writing “good enough” Python.Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Lessons learned while building a responsive frontend that talks smoothly with ADK’s agent stack.Continue reading on Towards AI »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:https://www.bawabt-alwaai.com/2025/06/immersive-learning-vr-ar-xr-education.htmlContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Everyone thinks it’s an AI cheat tool. That’s just the bait.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:The bugs, bad habits, and breakthroughs that helped me finally understand JavaScript (and stop pretending I did)Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:“JavaScript is tricky” especially because it does not always behave the way programmers expect. I will tell you some underrated core…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:No frameworks, no libraries—just DOM APIs, drag-and-drop events, and a whole lot of caffeine.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:This past spring, we launched a brand-new manufacturing initiative—building on ideas that are as old as MIT. Since William Barton Rogers created a school to help accelerate America’s industrialization, manufacturing has been an essential part of our mission—a particularly MIT brand of manufacturing, informed and improved by scientific principles and advanced by the kind of…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:As an MIT visiting scholar, rap legend Lupe Fiasco decided to go fishing for ideas on campus. In an approach he calls “ghotiing” (pronounced “fishing”), he composed nine raps inspired by works in MIT’s public art collection, writing and recording them on site. On May 2, he and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble debuted six…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:The computer first appeared on the Broadway stage in 1955 in a romantic comedy—William Marchant’s The Desk Set. The play centers on four women who conduct research on behalf of the fictional International Broadcasting Company. Early in the first act, a young engineer named Richard Sumner arrives in the offices of the research department without…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients, but usually these signals must be detected microscopically. Now Christopher Voigt, head of MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, and colleagues have triggered bacterial cells to produce signals that can be read from as far as 90 meters away. Their…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:It was a banner year for the Engineers in 2024–’25, with four MIT women’s teams all clinching NCAA Division III national titles for the first time. After winning their fourth straight NCAA East Regional Championship, the cross country team claimed their first national title in November with All-American performances from Christina Crow ’25 (pictured), Rujuta…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …” It is time for the tanibeer, a nighttime drum and dance party, in Kaolack, a town amid salt plains and peanut farms…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Not everyone can point to the specific moment that set them on their life’s course. But for me, there’s no question: It happened in 1982, when I was a junior at MIT, in the Infinite Corridor. In those pre-internet days, it was where we got the scoop about everything that was happening on campus. One…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Over the past decade, Institute Professor Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, and her students have used a technique known as layer-by-layer assembly to create a variety of polymer-coated nanoparticles that can be loaded with cancer-fighting drugs. The particles, which could prevent many side effects of chemotherapy by targeting tumors directly, have proved effective in mouse…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Two new studies from MIT and Harvard Medical School add to a growing body of evidence that infection-fighting molecules called cytokines also influence the brain, leading to behavioral changes during illness. By mapping the locations in the brain of receptors for different forms of IL-17, the researchers found that the cytokine acts on the somatosensory…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Hundred-year storm tides could strike every decade in Bangladesh Tropical cyclones can generate devastating storm tides—seawater heightened by the tides that causes catastrophic floods in coastal regions. An MIT study finds that as the planet warms, the recurrence of destructive storm tides will increase tenfold for one of the world’s hardest-hit regions. New electronic “skin”…
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Iran, clearly fearful of an online Israeli incursion, imposed a near-total internet blackout early last weekThe war between Israel and Iran, though largely a fight of fighter planes, drones and bombs, is erupting in the digital realm as well. Both countries have long histories with digital warfare. The particular focus of the current conflict, Iran’s nuclear program, was the target of one of the first cyberweapons...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:CMA proposes tightening regulation, which could lead to site giving users option to choose alternative servicesBusiness live – latest updatesGoogle could be forced to make a series of changes to its search business, including giving internet users an option to choose an alternative service, after the UK competition watchdog proposed tightening regulation of the company.The Competition and Market Authority is preparing...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:There's a simple reason why high-end EVs have failed to spark the imaginations of auto buyers. To remedy this, manufacturers need to revisit the days of the Model T.
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:The award-winning composer of soundtracks to video games including Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is composing again for the first time since a traumatic pandemicFor the fortunate among us, the Covid lockdowns have, years later, become a memory – if not distant, then certainly ever-so-slightly faded. We have had a few years now, to get out there, to rebuild careers and relationships, to travel, to live in the world...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:The Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, is about to descend on Venice with his fiancee, some ex-Marines and his limitless credit card. We meet the Italian activists who are saying: enoughWhen she heard that Jeff Bezos was getting married in Venice this June, Heather Jane Johnson felt worse than she had in her entire life. Twenty-five years ago, she ceased trading as a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts. “I lost a lot because of...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Online video hosting service accuses the nation’s online safety boss Julie Inman Grant of ignoring parents and teachersGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastYouTube has criticised calls for it to be included in the under-16s social media ban, accusing the nation’s online safety boss of ignoring parents and teachers.The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has urged the government to rethink its...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Low-cost and quickly discarded products are playing a key role in world’s fastest-growing waste problem – electronicsIt is cheap, often poorly made, and usually ends up in the bin or buried among the other knick-knacks, takeaway menus and birthday candles in the kitchen drawer.Known as “fast-tech”, these low-cost electronics are increasingly common – from mini-fans and electric toothbrushes, to portable chargers and...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:The Flawed Nature of HumanityContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:There are various ways of communicating an idea that go far beyond just the things that people say. Learning how to perceive these things…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to ‘lack of transparency in how it protects user data’The WhatsApp messaging service has been banned on all US House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to House staff on Monday.The notice to all House staff said that the “Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects...
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:The Last Week Tonight host went deep on the creative bankruptcy and long-term concerns over AI images and videos flooding the internetJohn Oliver covered the dangers of AI on his weekly HBO show, calling it “worryingly corrosive” for society.On Last Week Tonight, Oliver said that the “spread of AI generation tools has made it very easy to flood social media sites with cheap, professional-looking, often deeply weird...
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