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βIβm moving to Boston in three weeks!β At my high school graduation, I had just learned Iβd been accepted into the Interphase EDGE program, an incredible opportunity to acclimate to life at MIT before the 2022 school year began. I was glad to have that chance, since I faced a big change from life atβ¦
What if construction materials could be put together, taken apart, and reused as easily as Lego bricks? Thatβs the vision a team of MIT engineers hopes to realize with a new kind of masonry itβs developing from recycled glass. Using a custom 3D-printing technology provided by the MIT spinoff Evenline, the team has made strong,β¦
Dan Huttenlocher, SM β84, PhD β88, leads the way up to the eighth floor of Building 45, the recently completed headquarters of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. βThereβs an amazing view of the Great Dome here,β he says, pointing out a panoramic view of campus and the Boston skyline beyond. The floor features aβ¦
We need a strategy to deal with a hydra. Itβs Sunday, January 14, 2024, more than 50 hours since the annual MIT Mystery Hunt kicked off at noon on Friday, and Setec Astronomy is one of more than 200 teams racing to solve hundreds of puzzles over three days. The 60-some members of Setec, manyβ¦
Brackish groundwater is a major potential source of drinking water in underserved areas of the world, but desalinating it affordably is a challenge. A new system developed by mechanical engineering professor Amos Winter, Jon Bessette, SM β22, and staff engineer Shane Pratt manages to do the job entirely on solar energy, with no need forβ¦
Despite increasing evidence that water flowed on Mars billions of years ago, scientists have been mystified by what happened to the thick, carbon dioxideβrich atmosphere that must have once kept that water from freezing. Now two MIT geologists think they know. Geology professor Oliver Jagoutz and Joshua Murray, PhD β24, propose that much of thisβ¦
βTHE CULT OF THE FOUNDER.β βTHE CULT OF THE TECH GENIUS.β βBeware: Silicon Valleyβs cultists want to turn you into a disruptive deviant.β βTechβs cult of the founder bounces back.β βSilicon Valleyβs Strange, Apocalyptic Cults.β βHow the cult of personality and tech-bro culture is killing technology.β βCompany or cult?β βIs your corporate culture cultish?β βTheβ¦
βWe meet in the name of Osiris.β With these words, solemnly intoned, members of the MIT Osiris Society began their clandestine meetings for nearly 70 years. Created in 1903 as a βsenior societyβ and modeled on both the fraternities of Cornell and the mythology of ancient Egypt, Osiris gave MITβs senior leadership an opportunity toβ¦
Two MIT professors, an alumnus, and a former postdoc are among the winners of 2024βs Nobel Prizes. Professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, PhD β89, shared the prize in economics with political scientist James Robinson of the University of Chicago, with whom they have long collaborated. Using evidence from the last 500 years, their workβ¦
When I last wrote to you in this magazine, I told you a bit about the MIT Collaboratives, an effort to spark new ideas and modes of inquiry and help the people of MIT solve global problems. Since then, weβve launched the first collaborative, grounding it in the human-centered fields represented by our School ofβ¦
An onlooker filmed the moment when several drones with red and green lights fall out of formation and crash to the ground at a holiday show in Orlando on Saturday. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident after a seven-year-old boy was seriously injuredSeven-year-old boy begins open-heart surgery after being hit in Florida drone show Continue reading...
One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to βdrive right into a wall thatβs been up since 2003.β
Amid claims of sabotage of undersea cables, a small wooden structure houses a key cog in Europeβs digital connectivityAt the end of an unmarked path on a tiny island at the edge of Stockholmβs extensive Baltic Sea archipelago lies an inconspicuous little wooden cabin, painted a deep shade of red. Water gently laps the snow-dusted rocks, and the smell of pine fills the air.The site offers few clues to the geopolitical...
Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence.
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This holiday season, Walmart has taken a significant step forward in data science innovation.Continue reading on Major Digest Β»
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The report, released earlier this week, concludes that the DHS needs to improve its risk assessment guidance.Continue reading on Major Digest Β»
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Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their agendasThe get-together last week of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Reform UKβs treasurer, Nick Candy, was not just a gathering of Donald Trump fans. It was a meeting of minds.Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their political agendas, developed under the umbrella of Trumpβs Maga vision....
From holding space to a baby pygmy hippo, thereβs much to be learned about the world through the memes and trends that dominated our social media feeds this yearβBrain rotβ has been named Oxfordβs word of the year, meaning βthe supposed deterioration of a personβs mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or...
Female athlete power on social media became ever more strident in 2024 β but the backlash also damaged careers and wellbeingLina Nielsen remembers the moment she had the idea. She was sitting around the Olympic Village in Paris with her sprinting teammates β and she was bored. βI said to Yemi Mary John: βIβm gonna make this TikTokβ,β Nielsen recalls. She took herself to her bedroom, got out the flip phone each athlete...
He projects that the true productivity gains from AI will be a mere 0.53%, and that GDP will only grow by about 1% over the next decade.Continue reading on Major Digest Β»
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