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The future of MIT

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  1. MIT manage to 3D print a complete working motor with moving partsIndustry and manufacturing
  2. Ivy league research finds AI Agents are autonomous spontaneous Chaos MonkiesSecurity and privacy
  3. AI watches CAD designers at work and begins creating 3D models itselfAI and intelligence
  4. OpenAI pays $150 per hour for bankers to train its financial modelsAI and intelligence
  5. MIT just developed a vaccine to stop the next PandemicBiotech and enhanced humans
  6. Harvard’s new Quantum Computer runs for a staggering two hoursComputing
  7. MIT’s new SEAL AI edits, evolves, and boosts its own intelligenceAI and intelligence
  8. MIT study suggests people outsourcing their work to AI are getting stupiderAI and intelligence
  9. Microsofts 1 Bit AI model runs on a CPU and matches larger systemsAI and intelligence
  10. Anthropic read their AI’s mind and it doesn’t predict the next wordAI and intelligence
  11. MIT’s newest robo dog learned its tricks in simulationRobotics
  12. Deepseek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI o1 in benchmarksAI and intelligence
  13. AI agents created a Minecraft civilisation complete with culture, religion, and taxAI and intelligence
  14. AI can now clone your personality to replace youVirtual worlds
  15. New study on AI in education finds students get lazy and learn lessOpinion
  16. UK and US accelerate Quantum Computing research after China advancesComputing
  17. Meta thinks AI needs a body to be truly intelligentRobotics
  18. Nanobots can now enter your brains cells to spy on themBiotech and enhanced humans
  19. LLM AI’s can suddenly learn new skills now we might know whyAI and intelligence
  20. OpenAI is testing their AI’s powers of persuasionSecurity and privacy
  21. ARIA researchers attempt to cut AI computing costs by a thousandComputing
  22. Generative AI designs new DNA sequences to turn genes on and offBiotech and enhanced humans
  23. New analysis suggests AI could upend everyones pay and flatten wagesAI and intelligence
  24. New spray on sensor technology turns everything into a user interfaceAI and intelligence
  25. AI just discovered another 200 CRISPR-like gene editing systemsBiotech and enhanced humans
  26. Toyota invents new Large Behaviour Model AI to accelerate robot learningRobotics
  27. These bacteria eat plastic waste and turn it into useful productsIndustry and manufacturing
  28. BCG AI in the workplace study shows junior employees benefit more than their seniorsAI and intelligence
  29. NASA smashes speed records with new space to ground communications systemConnected society
  30. MIT and Stanford ChatGPT study shows low skilled workers benefit the mostAI and intelligence
  31. This new in vivo glucose powered fuel cell turns humans into batteriesEarth and energy
  32. This ingestible Smart Pill helps doctors identify gastrointestinal issues fasterBiotech and enhanced humans
  33. Devs used hacks to create AutoGPT an almost fully autonomous AI and open sourced itRobotics
  34. This ingestible smart pill monitors your gut health from the inside outIndustry and manufacturing
  35. Researchers say you’ll soon be able to run holograms from your smartphoneIndustry and manufacturing
  36. Researchers created self-assembling proteins that can the memories of cellsBiotech and enhanced humans
  37. New breakthrough drug reverses hearing loss and consigns hearing aids to the binBiotech and enhanced humans
  38. An AI just aced a university maths course for the first timeAI and intelligence
  39. MIT tries to defeat global warming with new space bubble conceptSpace
  40. This Brain on a Chip tech is designed to destroy brain tumours faster and cheaperBiotech and enhanced humans
  41. Blockchain could help autonomous swarms of drones and robots communicate securelyConnected society
  42. NASA and partners team up to create robotic self-assembling space structuresIndustry and manufacturing
  43. Plans to drill 12 miles deep into the Earth’s Mantle get the green light with new fundingEarth and energy
  44. New smart kinetic clothing records and plays back your breathingAI and intelligence
  45. 3D printed solid state batteries are getting closer to productionEarth and energy
  46. Living pharmacies within our bodies could help cure jet lag and diseaseBiotech and enhanced humans
  47. MIT’s newest material contains sensors and a neural networkComputing
  48. MIT and Harvard scientists develop a face mask that detects COVID-19 in the airIndustry and manufacturing
  49. Researchers innovative nanomaterial opens the door for bulletproof shirtsIndustry and manufacturing
  50. Federal Reserve’s Digital Dollar initiative has Wall Street panickingConnected society
  51. MIT’s smart clothes measure your body’s movements more accurately than everConnected society
  52. Futuristic Spinach can send you emails about climate change, life, and stuffConnected society
  53. Body morphing clothing powered by ancient bacteria helps you exercise harderIndustry and manufacturing
  54. This genetic kill switch prevents genetically modified organisms from escapingSecurity and privacy
  55. 500 hackers spent three months trying to hack a radical new computer chip and failedSecurity and privacy
  56. MIT’s lab grown wood and plants take aim at traditional farming and forestryIndustry and manufacturing
  57. Researchers used a worm brained AI with just 19 neurons to control a self-driving carAI and intelligence
  58. Race to contain COVID-19 sees researchers use AI to predict future deadly mutationsAI and intelligence
  59. USAF experiments with neurotraining to cut pilot training times in halfBiotech and enhanced humans
  60. Virus based molecular assembler helps researchers build next gen batteriesIndustry and manufacturing
  61. MIT computing breakthrough will put a human brain in your pocketComputing
  62. OpenAI’s GPT-3 moves us closer to realising computers that write their own codeComputing
  63. Re-igniting Moore’s Law, MIT’s radical Carbon Nanotube computer leaps from lab to factoryComputing
  64. Scientists are developing a face mask that lights up if it detects Covid-19Industry and manufacturing
  65. MIT invents a cryptographic “Tag of Everything” to defeat counterfeitersSecurity and privacy
  66. Toyota used AI to supercharge EV battery development and saved years of effortAI and intelligence
  67. A revolutionary AI built by MIT just discovered a new powerful antibiotic drugAI and intelligence
  68. MIT researchers can now use lasers to look at your insides from a distanceEarth and energy
  69. Scientists have managed to clone photons using quantum dotsComputing
  70. MIT invented a computer circuit that works by using magnetism not electricityComputing
  71. An AI built to generate “Fake News” is now helping detect itSecurity and privacy
  72. World’s most advanced nanotube computer keeps Moore’s Law alive, for nowComputing
  73. Cellular recorders help treat cancer by capturing the story of cellsBiotech and enhanced humans
  74. MIT’s new ink lets any object instantly change colourIndustry and manufacturing
  75. Nvidia and MIT open source an AI that creates crazy good synthetic videosAI and intelligence
  76. MIT’s CRISPR gene editing alternative inserts new DNA without cuttingBiotech and enhanced humans
  77. Google secretly spent $10million on a 4 year Cold Fusion experimentEarth and energy
  78. MIT’s crazy laser can beam adverts directly into your earsSecurity and privacy
  79. Disney’s latest VR jacket lets gamers “feel the force”Virtual worlds
  80. BIG unveil Oceanix their floating city concept backed by the UNEarth and energy
  81. New self-healing material rebuilds itself using carbon from the airIndustry and manufacturing
  82. Baxter the robot fixes its mistakes by reading your mindRobotics
  83. Blockchain startups are trying to break big tech’s hold on AIAI and intelligence
  84. Perfect fitting one size fits all clothing has arrivedIndustry and manufacturing
  85. MIT researchers have turned WiFi signals into electricityEarth and energy
  86. NASA’s revolutionary metamaterial “morphing” wing mimics birds wingsTransport and mobility
  87. Experts believe Chinese scientist who Gene-Hacked twins “likely boosted their brainpower”Biotech and enhanced humans
  88. MIT’s new neural network can explain its decisionsAI and intelligence
  89. MIT discover a way to mass produce cell sized robotsRobotics
  90. RNA breakthrough makes it possible to cure Cystic Fibrosis with an inhalerBiotech and enhanced humans
  91. The world’s first silent, engineless aircraft takes flight at MITTransport and mobility
  92. MIT trained an AI to spot fake and biased news storiesAI and intelligence
  93. A powerful battery breakthrough from MIT could usher in electric planesEarth and energy
  94. The web is broken so it’s founder is re-inventing itConnected society
  95. Doctors will soon be able to track your health through walls using your wifiAI and intelligence
  96. A robot taught itself how to identify and manipulate objects autonomouslyRobotics
  97. MIT created a nanobot spray that gives dumb objects superpowersIndustry and manufacturing
  98. MIT researchers have taught their AI to see through solid wallsAI and intelligence
  99. Revolutionary injectable brain implant restores mobility in paralysed patientsBiotech and enhanced humans
  100. New battery technology triples the ranges of electric vehiclesEarth and energy
  101. US military and DARPA team up to develop tech to uncover fake newsAI and intelligence
  102. BMW and MIT create the world’s first 3D printed inflatable materialIndustry and manufacturing
  103. Lamborghini’s futuristic all electric, self healing hyper car won’t have batteriesTransport and mobility
  104. Two breakthroughs make it impossible to fake nuclear weapon decommissioningSecurity and privacy
  105. Empatica’s smartwatch predicts Epileptic seizuresBiotech and enhanced humans
  106. MIT’s “mind reading” wearable let’s you silently interact with all your devicesComputing
  107. MIT and DeepMind’s new AI can’t be tricked with weird lightingAI and intelligence
  108. MIT’s breakthrough battery makes electricity from thin air, literallyEarth and energy
  109. MIT invents a 3D printed dye that lets objects change colour on demandIndustry and manufacturing
  110. MIT’s new secure, low power chip helps create the “Internet of Secure Things”Security and privacy
  111. MIT’s new artificial synapse brings “Brain on a chip” hardware closerComputing
  112. MIT’s new Smart Tattoo is like having a doctor on your armIndustry and manufacturing
  113. MIT’s Rapid Liquid Printing technology could be the future of furnitureIndustry and manufacturing
  114. MIT researchers read a neural networks mind to boost its performanceAI and intelligence
  115. MIT breakthrough creates glowing plants that could replace street lightsEarth and energy
  116. MIT’s new AI is helping scientists design new, futuristic materialsIndustry and manufacturing
  117. MIT researchers use AI and a smartphone to see round cornersAI and intelligence
  118. MIT’s breakthrough air battery could make grid scale storage 80 percent cheaperEarth and energy
  119. NASA 4D prints new materials and mulls printing self-assembling space stationsIndustry and manufacturing
  120. MIT tests the future of cybersecurity, pits AI’s against AI’sSecurity and privacy
  121. Revolutionary seawater powered battery gives underwater drones a big boostEarth and energy
  122. Toyota ties up with blockchain startups to connect its worldConnected society
  123. New ‘Cyborg’ brain implants could help paralysed people walk againBiotech and enhanced humans
  124. NASA’s possible-impossible plasma engine roars into lifeSpace
  125. Microsoft’s AI has learnt how to write it’s own code and create its own programsAI and intelligence
  126. NASA just discovered seven Earth like planetsSpace
  127. MIT’s newest chip could bring speech recognition to every deviceComputing
  128. Scientists get ready to take the world’s first photo of a Black HoleSpace
  129. Scientists create the first carbon free supercapacitorEarth and energy
  130. Google’s AI’s are learning how to build new AI’sAI and intelligence
  131. Watch the F/A-18 release swarms of autonomous drones into the skySecurity and privacy
  132. New 3D graphene is as light as air and ten times stronger than steelIndustry and manufacturing
  133. Devastating bioweapon or humanity’s saviour? UN green lights the ‘Gene Drive’Earth and energy
  134. MIT researchers have taught their AI to recognise soundsAI and intelligence
  135. MIT’s latest breakthrough? Getting AIs to explain their decisionsAI and intelligence
  136. MIT’s new AI can create videos of the future by looking at a photoAI and intelligence
  137. MIT breakthrough lets virtual reality gamers cut the chordVirtual worlds
  138. Ubers flying taxis will take passengers to the heavens and back by 2021Transport and mobility
  139. ISS SPHERE drones learn to see and fly around in space all by themselvesRobotics
  140. Scientists are creating a detailed map of all 35 trillion cells in the human bodyBiotech and enhanced humans
  141. Skydio’s autonomous drone takes to the skiesTransport and mobility
  142. Autonomous Roboats to sail the canals of AmsterdamTransport and mobility
  143. Scientists use WiFi to read your emotionsSecurity and privacy
  144. World first as researchers observe atoms interactingEarth and energy
  145. MIT’s latest Human-AI hybrid cybersecurity platform blitzes trialsSecurity and privacy
  146. New MIT tech lets Pokemon magically interact with the real worldVirtual worlds
  147. Human on a chip development signals the end of animal testingBiotech and enhanced humans
  148. 3D, the sequel at a cinema near you sometime wheneverVirtual worlds
  149. Researchers have created a programming language for living cellsComputing
  150. Using open innovation to gain first mover advantageOpinion
  151. In the future everything will be connectedOpinion

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