| Wireless Energy | | | | | | Batteries-free electronics are now within reach: Tomás Palacios and colleagues have used flexible, inexpensive materials to make a device that converts energy from Wi-Fi signals into electricity to power smartphones, wearables, and more. Full story via MIT News → |
| MIT robot combines vision and touch to play Jenga Machine-learning approach could help robots assemble cellphones and other small parts in a manufacturing line. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Champion figure skater thrives at MIT Computer science major Kevin Shum is a two-time U.S. national champion in figure skating. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Ingestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month A soft, squishy device could potentially track ulcers, cancers, and other GI conditions over the long term. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Hayden Library to undergo renovation in 2020 Redesigned spaces will focus on fostering community and accommodating diverse study, learning, and research styles. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| The gift of light, through science and service Professor Pawan Sinha is addressing a humanitarian need — treatable blindness — and advancing our understanding of visual development in the brain. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Why do people fall for fake news? // The New York Times Associate Professor David Rand examines what makes people susceptible to believing false or misleading information and suggests solutions based on his research. Full story via The New York Times → |
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| Inmates and MIT students team up to turn a blank wall into a lasting experience // WBUR A new course brings together MIT students and inmates at the South Bay House of Correction to create a two-story mural. Full story via WBUR → |
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| How to make us happier on the job // Financial Times Adjunct Associate Professor Zeynep Ton has co-founded the Good Jobs Institute in an effort to help companies create good jobs, particularly for service and retail workers. Full story via Financial Times → |
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| Can we make artificial intelligence ethical? // The Washington Post “If we want to realize AI’s incredible potential, we must also advance AI in a way that increases the public’s confidence that AI benefits society,” writes Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone. Schwarzman provided foundational funding for MIT’s new college of computing. Full story via The Washington Post → |
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| | | “MIThenge,” the biannual event in which light from the setting sun can be seen all the way down MIT’s Infinite Corridor, took place this week. During last fall’s MIThenge, grad student Hongzi Mao captured this fantastic shot from the third floor of Building 8. “Didn’t know the henge is literally this real!” Mao wrote. It is definitely real — except when there are clouds. Viewing tips for MIThenge → |
| 314 | | Address of MIT’s “new front door,” currently under construction on Main Street in Kendall Square — because, of course, we will be home to pi Learn about 314 Main St. → |
| | | WCVB-TV reporter Mike Wankum recently visited the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 machine shop to see how MIT students are developing cutting-edge technologies such as solar-powered vehicles, electric racing cars, and other innovative devices in a space that Wankum calls “classic MIT.” “It’s really cool,” says third-year student Serena Grown-Haeberl. “You get to see those math equations really come to life.” Watch the video via WCVB → |
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