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