Articles tagged "MIT"

It's going to save America!

Timmy fell down a well? Don't send Lassie, Lassie doesn't exist. Send the robotic cheetah which does exist.

In response to the harsh sentences recently levied against DDoS action organizers, online activists are trying to make the case that disrupting online should be regarded as a legal form of protest.

This fancy new quantum spin liquid could change everything.

What gaming's big bang in the early 1960s may tell us about the Disney-esque empire of a modern mobile-gaming sensation.

These cute little swarmbots can assemble into a larger whole.

You're sitting in an air-conditioned trailer somewhere in Nevada, one hand clutching a joystick, the other tapping out commands on a keyboard. You're a US Air Force (or CIA) Predator drone pilot. You're about two hours into a 12-hour spy- and kill-sh…

Remember that time Bruce Willis and the American rock 'n roll band Aerosmith saved planet Earth by blowing up an asteroid in an act of ultimate human sacrifice? Turns out they were pretty stupid and, instead of nukes, they could have just launched a

Oil spill cleanup technology is a crazy innovative field—we learned as much in the wake of the BP Gulf disaster, when everyone from conservation biologists to barbers to Kevin Costner rushed to sell the government on their wild, sometimes literally h…

Just another example of MIT students having a chuckle

Emerging technology from MIT's Mechanical Engineering department is a jet propelled shot, eliminating the need for needles, bringing the sensation of receiving an injection down to that of a mosquito bite – possibly less. This piece of equipment use…

Researchers across the country are starting to develop the spacesuit of the future. And it's a lot sexier.

Sherry Turkle has spent an inordinate amount of time looking at people looking at screens. Not just looking at screens, but also interacting with them, talking to them, designing and making with them. People who care for them, and can’t seem to get e…

Long before Joe Paradiso would epitomize the Media Lab professor -- with expertise in sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, energy harvesting, interactive media, high-energy physics, and spacecraft control -- he decided to build a synthesizer from s…

The rising cost and declining value of higher education in the United States has undoubtedly been one of the key grievances of upstart social justice movements like Occupy Wall Street. And the anger is beginning to boil over -- just look at the stude…

_No, no, it's not another list. It's a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document o…

Gary Grice, aka GZA, aka "The Genius" was at Harvard the other day lecturing about a whole bunch of GZA-type stuff like kung-fu, nursery rhymes, "chess":http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/music/07clan.html, TV forensics shows, and rapping. Post-l…

On July 19th, 24 year-old Aaron Swartz, Reddit "cofounder":http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_there_was_a_third_cofounder_of_reddit_who_was/ and former Executive Director at "Demand Progress":http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearne…

Remember how much of a pain _SimCity_ was? Now imagine trying to play it in Russian. Researchers at MIT have created machine-learning systems that are able to analyze instruction manuals to help them beat video games. By correlating terms they come a…

_My pair of Chinatown bootleg Ray-Bans has passed the test of time. Maybe I'll give the Chinese knockoff of Austria a shot._ h3. ONE: US soldier "re-grows" 70% of his leg using experimental procedure ("Daily Mail":http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/a…

If you are not convinced of this, then you clearly have not seen Deb Roy’s recent TED talk about collecting 200 gigabytes of sound and video of his toddler "learning how to use words":http://motherboard.tv/2011/3/9/this-guy-recorded-his-child-constan…