For the first time, MIT sent an organized engagement to the global Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity, which this year was held Oct. 21 to Nov. 1 in Cali, Colombia. The 10 delegates to COP16 included faculty, researchers, and students from the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), the Department of […]

Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet’s surface, and the minerals observed from orbit and from landers seem to many to prove that the liquid was ordinary water.  Not so fast, the authors of a new Perspectives article in Nature Geoscience suggest. Water is […]

The MIT K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health (MOH) have launched the first fully accredited educational program for prosthetists and orthotists in Sierra Leone.  Tens of thousands of people in Sierra Leone need orthotic braces and artificial limbs, but access to such specialized medical care in this African nation […]

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For decades, the screwworm was eliminated in North America, but containment efforts in Panama have failed. Now cattle smugglers are helping the parasite advance north.

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Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times: People living in Rome and cultural leaders criticize Airbnb’s planned Colosseum experience for 32 guests in May 2025, saying it will demean a cultural treasure  —  An initiative by officials at the monument in a partnership with Airbnb has prompted an outcry among those who feel it will demean […]

Jennifer Hughes / Financial Times: Vanguard’s Chief Economist Joe Davis warns that the rush into AI stocks in 2024 has overplayed AI’s near-term potential and risks a “correction” in share prices  —  Asset manager’s chief economist Joe Davis says investors are overplaying the near-term potential of the technology

Reuters: Chinese AI company SenseTime says it completed a major organizational restructuring to focus on generative AI, shifting from computer vision and surveillance  —  Loss-making Chinese AI company SenseTime Group (0020.HK) said on Tuesday it has completed a major organizational restructuring aimed …

Although it is less abundant than carbon dioxide, methane gas contributes disproportionately to global warming because it traps more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, due to its molecular structure. MIT chemical engineers have now designed a new catalyst that can convert methane into useful polymers, which could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “What […]

Creating realistic 3D models for applications like virtual reality, filmmaking, and engineering design can be a cumbersome process requiring lots of manual trial and error. While generative artificial intelligence models for images can streamline artistic processes by enabling creators to produce lifelike 2D images from text prompts, these models are not designed to generate 3D […]

The concept of community policing gained wide acclaim in the U.S. when crime dropped drastically during the 1990s. In Chicago, Boston, and elsewhere, police departments established programs to build more local relationships, to better enhance community security. But how well does community policing work in other places? A new multicountry experiment co-led by MIT political […]

“I’m not trying to land on Mars,” Cost Plus Drugs founder Mark Cuban joked at WIRED’s The Big Interview event.

Interior Chinatown, What We Do in the Shadows, and La Máquina are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.

Zack Snyder says he still questions “the why” of the technology when it comes to some aspects of filmmaking, but can definitely see the perks.

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Vodka maker Stoli says an August 2024 ransomware attack contributed to the bankruptcy filing of its US arm, amid its ongoing issues with the Russian government  —  A ransomware attack on the multinational Stoli Group in August helped push two of the vodka-maker’s U.S. subsidiaries into bankruptcy, the company’s CEO […]

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: Microchip Technology is pausing its application for $162M in CHIPS Act grants, as it plans to close a factory in Arizona, affecting ~500 employees  —  – It had been in line to get $162 million in grants from program  — Company announced on Monday it will shut down Arizona plant

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Trade business software provider ServiceTitan offers an IPO share price range at $52-$57 and plans to buy back the shares of its non-convertible preferred stock  —  On Tuesday, cloud business software provider ServiceTitan offered a price range for its initial public stock of $52 to $57 a share …

Mlen-Too Wesley has faded memories of his early childhood in Liberia, but the sharpest one has shaped his life. Wesley was 4 years old when he and his family boarded a military airplane to flee the West African nation. At the time, the country was embroiled in a 14-year civil war that killed approximately 200,000 people, displaced about […]

Migrants have become a flashpoint in global politics. But new research by an MIT political scientist, focused on West Germany and Poland after World War II, shows that in the long term, those countries developed stronger states, more prosperous economies, and more entrepreneurship after receiving a large influx of immigrants. Those findings come from a […]

Gastric balloons — silicone balloons filled with air or saline and placed in the stomach — can help people lose weight by making them feel too full to overeat. However, this effect eventually can wear off as the stomach becomes used to the sensation of fullness. To overcome that limitation, MIT engineers have designed a […]

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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: The CFPB proposes a rule to limit data brokers’ ability to sell Americans’ personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach earlier in 2024  —  In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: A US law firm files an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal over how it charges users who buy services that rival Azure  —  The suit was filed on Tuesday with the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal by Scott+Scott  —  Microsoft faces a 1 billion pound […]

Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: China says it has banned shipments to the US of several “dual-use” minerals and metals used in chipmaking and military applications, after new US chip rules  —  Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries  —  China has banned shipments to the US of several …

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Wes Davis / The Verge: Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches to a specific profile and within date ranges  —  Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches to a specific […]

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin is shutting down and plans to transfer accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March, after a $300M+ hack in May  —  DMM Bitcoin said on Monday that it planned to transfer all customer accounts and company assets to another crypto firm […]

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: ChatGPT refuses to say some names, possibly due to digital privacy requests or a post-prompt handling fault; OpenAI may have fixed the viral “David Mayer” issue  —  Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend …

Users of the healthcare app Alan whose queries were answered by a medical AI reported high satisfaction levels, but one exchange included “potentially dangerous inaccuracies”

EEG recordings used in neurology could be made simpler by replacing the usual electrodes, wires and gels with a tattoo printed onto the scalp

The MIT Global Seed Funds (GSF) program fosters global research collaborations with MIT faculty and their peers abroad — creating partnerships that tackle complex global issues, from climate change to health-care challenges and beyond. Administered by the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), the GSF program has awarded more than $26 million to over 1,200 faculty […]

The deep neural network models that power today’s most demanding machine-learning applications have grown so large and complex that they are pushing the limits of traditional electronic computing hardware. Photonic hardware, which can perform machine-learning computations with light, offers a faster and more energy-efficient alternative. However, there are some types of neural network computations that […]

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Financial Times: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the startup is weighing up an ads model, but plans to be “thoughtful”; sources say OpenAI has hired ad talent from Meta and Google  —  ChatGPT maker hires advertising talent from big tech rivals  —  OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising …