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Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the m
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Your brain on AI
Many people find AI-based chatbots helpful in keeping up with news, but a study by Pattie Maes and her colleagues at the MIT Media Lab point
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Taking your temperature from the inside
Oral and forehead thermometers may not accurately capture a person’s core body temperature, and the few ingestible temperature sensors on th
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Seeing through murky waters
When remotely operated vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of sediment that onboard cameras s
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AgeLab research inspires an A I startup
When Don Yansen ’63 arrived at the MIT AgeLab for a study on technology in caregiving for older adults, he didn’t plan to launch another co
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A new stamp on cyberfraud prevention
For Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, his career in data science and cybersecurity began when his grandfather gifted him thousands of stamps: He bui
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Launching youth entrepreneurship
Even as a teenager, Laurie Stach ’06 says, she had a “crazy ambition to take on the world and solve problems.” At MIT, she realized she wasn
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YouTuber finds niche as college admissions mentor
As a first-generation student from a small town, Gohar Khan ’21 had to navigate the college admissions process largely on his own. He founde
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Addressing a sticking point in sustainable adhesives
Petroleum-based adhesives are everywhere: bonding the wood and drywall in a construction project, holding together the joints of furniture,
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Amping up T cells to target cancer
Vaccines that turn the body’s immune system against tumors have shown promise in clinical trials, and a handful have been FDA approved for c
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MIT tech powered the Artemis II livestreams
During the original US missions to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s, astronauts relied on radio-frequency systems to communicate, sending gra
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Art and algorithms at Sotheby’s
Do fine art and high tech ever converge? At Sotheby’s they do, thanks to Kelly Shen ’17. Shen works in the growing field of art intelligence
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The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Ho
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I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.
Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into
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Welcome to the spiderverse, a world measured through webs
Counting the creatures in the world around us is critical for a raft of conservation efforts. It helps scientists gauge biodiversity, track
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How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receiv
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The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents
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Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing
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The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
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When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically
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This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than i
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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
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The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush
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