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Nine members of the MIT faculty are among 126 early-career researchers honored across seven fields with 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Representing the departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Chemistry, Economics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics, the honorees will each receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship to advance their research. Including […]

For decades, airports around the nation have employed sensitive canine noses to detect concealed explosives. While this four-legged fleet has been effective and efficient, researchers have yet to build a mechanical method that can mimic their abilities. Sasha Wrobel and Ta-Hsuan Ong are leading a team of researchers from MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Biological and Chemical […]

For more than a century, much of the world has run on the combustion of fossil fuels. Now, to avert the threat of climate change, the energy system is changing. Notably, solar and wind systems are replacing fossil fuel combustion for generating electricity and heat, and batteries are replacing the internal combustion engine for powering […]

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How to use tools like ChatGPT to craft communications that will land with all the different audiences you’re trying to reach.

It’s George Washington’s birthday, and he wants you to have a robot vacuum. These deals are perfect for gearing up for spring.

The avian flu has killed millions of chickens, decimated wild birds—and moved into mammals. Now the poultry industry needs new measures to stop its spread.

Biologists are working to quickly grow hardier specimens that can be propagated and transplanted by robotic arms.

Bloomberg: A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, a roommate to Sam Bankman-Fried at MIT who is cooperating with the US, as insiders say he may have key insights  —  They’d come a long way together, from teenage mathletes to MIT frat brothers to crypto billionaires.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: spooked by a growing regulatory crackdown, US banks are backing away from crypto companies and re-evaluating their exposure, no matter how small  —  SEC and banking overseers step up scrutiny following collapse of FTX  —  Crypto’s Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained.  Here’s Why.

Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: A year on from Meta hyping the metaverse in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a virtual future has evaporated and Meta is now more focused on efficiency  —  Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment  —  Remember when we were all going […]

A focus on revolutionary solutions like carbon capture and geoengineering is slowing the uptake of existing answers to the problems of climate change, air pollution and energy security, says environmental engineer Mark Jacobson

As carbon dioxide continues to build up in the Earth’s atmosphere, research teams around the world have spent years seeking ways to remove the gas efficiently from the air. Meanwhile, the world’s number one “sink” for carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is the ocean, which soaks up some 30 to 40 percent of all of […]

The social media platform helped push the story into the mainstream while also fueling misinformation and conspiracy theories.

From Fresh to Heat, these are the films you need to watch on the streaming service right now.

Musk has given himself an even bigger bullhorn to annoy users and spread disinformation on the platform.

Sara Fischer / Axios: Twitter updates its policies to allow cannabis ads targeting US states where cannabis is legal, promoting brands or providing info but not offering direct sales  —  Twitter on Wednesday updated its advertising policies to allow cannabis ads to run on its service in states where cannabis is legal, in accordance with […]

Chris Ciaccia / Seeking Alpha: Twilio reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.02B, vs. $1B est., active customer accounts up 13% YoY to 290K+, and authorizes a $1B share buyback; TWLO jumps 12%+  —  Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) shares soared nearly 10% in extended-hours trading after the cloud communications software company reported …

Lucy Papachristou / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.73B, vs. $1.65B est., GMV up 13% YoY to $61B, vs. $59.2B est., and forecasts a Q1 2023 revenue growth below est.  —  Shopify Inc. tumbled in after-hours trading after giving a sales outlook for the start of the year that fell short […]

Listening to a recording of yourself speaking can be unnerving – but headphones that alter the sound can make your voice seem more familiar and may help us understand schizophrenia hallucinations

An F-16 fighter jet controlled by AI has taken off, taken part in aerial fights against other aircraft and landed without human help

The annual MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) Research Fund supports research in the Institute’s humanities, arts, and social science fields that shows promise of making an important contribution to the proposed area of activity. The four recipients for 2023 are: Volha Charnysh, assistant professor of political science, plans to apply her […]

On Jan. 26, the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) hosted FedEx founder and executive chair Frederick W. Smith for an intimate, one-on-one conversation with Yossi Sheffi, director of CTL and professor of civil and environmental engineering. Their talk, titled “50 Years of Delivering Innovation,” centered on the evolution of the supply chain and […]

How do you quantify the value of education or measure success? For the team behind the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society’s (IDSS) MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science (SDS), providing over 1,000 individuals from around the globe with access to MIT-level programming feels like a pretty good place to start.  Thanks to […]

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Fearing the company’s new management, researchers frantically completed studies on misinformation and algorithmic bias, then rushed to publish them online.

Eufy’s recent scandal shows it’s not so much about the data breach but about how a company responds. Here are a few ways to shop smart.

Beds are expensive, but the right one can mean the difference between feeling refreshed or grumpy. These ones are discounted.

Catherine Wang / Forbes: How BandLab, a music production app and social network for creators, woos users through its SongStarter AI tool, which generates royalty-free instrumental ideas  —  A scion of Malaysia’s richest family, Kuok Meng Ru transformed his love of classic rock and blues into a music empire.

Stephen Wolfram Writings: An in-depth look at how OpenAI’s ChatGPT decodes input queries to produce a “reasonable continuation” of the text, the underlying dataset, neural nets, and more  —  It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time  —  That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially …

Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: After a series of disastrous bets and a market downturn, SoftBank’s future rests on a successful Arm IPO and turnaround at the mostly dormant Vision Funds  —  Chip designer now accounts for a bigger percentage of the technology group’s net asset value than Alibaba

Comprehending that other people might think differently from you is a form of intelligence known as theory of mind – what does it mean that the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT can do as well on tests of it as a 9-year-old child?

In principle, quantum-based devices such as computers and sensors could vastly outperform conventional digital technologies for carrying out many complex tasks. But developing such devices in practice has been a challenging problem despite great investments by tech companies as well as academic and government labs. Today’s biggest quantum computers still only have a few hundred […]

Our manufactured love holiday might have you feeling more vulnerable than usual. Here’s what to look out for.

After a backlash, Spotify paused an arrangement that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.

A new compound halts sperm in their tracks. It’s fast-acting, temporary, hormone-free, and highly effective—in mice.

Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: Descartes Systems Group, a Canada-based logistics and supply chain software provider, acquires US-based logistics automation provider GroundCloud for ~$138M  —  Descartes aims to apply GroundCloud’s safety content, compliance solutions across more industries.

Sean Lyngaas / CNN: A US jury convicts Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin for his role in a $90M insider trading scheme that hacked companies to get non-public financial data  —  A federal jury in Boston has convicted a prominent Russian businessman for his alleged role in a $90-million insider trading scheme …

Dan O’Shea / Fierce Electronics: GlobalFoundries reports record Q4 revenue, up 14% YoY to $2.1B, net income up 1,453% YoY to $668M, and FY 2022 revenue up 23% YoY to $8.1B; GFS closes up 8.44%  —  As recent earnings reports showed how many semiconductor designers struggled during the latter half of 2022 …

Flapping-wing drones camouflaged with the bodies of taxidermy birds could help study flocks of wild birds or enable military spy missions, but they’re not yet the most efficient flyers

The Gough Map, thought to be Britain’s oldest, has been revealed in unprecedented detail thanks to cutting-edge 3D technology more commonly used in computer games and CGI

For artificial intelligence to move to the next level, it needs to understand the goals and beliefs of others – a skill once thought to be out of its reach. But new research shows emotionally smart machines are on the way

MIT senior Sylas Horowitz kneeled at the edge of a marsh, tinkering with a blue-and-black robot about the size and shape of a shoe box and studded with lights and mini propellers. The robot was a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) — an underwater drone slated to collect water samples from beneath a sheet of Arctic […]

The catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 has left more than 41,000 people dead, and many more still not counted under the rubble. More than a million people have been left homeless in Turkey alone. Bilge Yildiz, MIT professor of nuclear science and of materials science and engineering, was born and […]

Seven MIT researchers are among the 106 new members and 18 international members elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) this week. Fourteen additional MIT alumni, including one member of the MIT Corporation, were also elected as new members. One of the highest professional distinctions for engineers, membership to the NAE is given to […]

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