The year is 2149 and …
Two and a half decades later, the bloom is off the rose. Paper is nice. Letters are nice—old-fashioned pen and...
World
African farmers are using private satellite data to improve crop yields
When EOS first launched in 2015, it relied largely on imagery from a combination of satellites, especially the European Union’s...
From the publisher: Commemorating 125 years
As I sit in my air-conditioned home office writing this letter on my laptop, Spotify providing a soundtrack to keep...
Transformative spaces
The Met Warehouse will give faculty in SA+P an environment for teaching and research that matches their professional and creative...
In molecules, one chemist sees art
In 2020, when she came to MIT for graduate school, Lee spent a virtual lab rotation with Laura Kiessling ’83,...
This is MIT and yes, we have bananas
President L. Rafael Reif gave a shout-out to the Banana Lounge in May 2022 in his last presidential charge to...
A hundred years of curiosity
His love for learning about the world around him was far too strong to be squashed by the official end...
Not just another band from Boston
But he is still busy and engaged. He and his wife, Kim, operate the DTS Charitable Foundation, which he founded...
Readying business for the age of AI
AI across industries There is no shortage of AI use cases across sectors. Retailers are tailoring shopping experiences to individual...
Inside the long quest to advance Chinese writing technology
Some felt these things were connected. Wang Zhao, for one, was a reformer who believed that a simpler way to...
AI and the future of sex
Anti-porn crusades have been at the heart of the US culture wars for generations, but by the start of the...
Maybe you will be able to live past 122
Many other avenues are being explored, including a diabetes drug that could have broad health benefits; drugs based on a...
Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives
The smartphone, the internet, and social networks like TikTok have rapidly and utterly transformed this situation. It’s now common, when...
The Download: simulating solar geoengineering, and AI-enabled accessibility
1 We aren’t ready for the creep of AI into our camerasCapabilities embedded in the latest Google Pixel handset will...
AI could be a game changer for people with disabilities
AI could make these kinds of jumps in accessibility more common across a wide range of technologies. But you probably...
Andrew Ng’s new model lets you play around with solar geoengineering to see what would happen
That might lead the casual user of such a tool to conclude: Cool, let’s do it!But even if solar geoengineering...
Tech that measures our brainwaves is 100 years old. How will we be using it 100 years from now?
Ross Compton’s heart data was used against him when he was accused of burning down his home in Ohio in...
The Download: the future of human evolution, and touch sensing for robots
Editing human embryos is restricted in much of the world—and making an edited baby is fully illegal in most countries...
We finally have a definition for open-source AI
According to the group, an open-source AI system can be used for any purpose without securing permission, and researchers should...
Want to understand the future of technology? Take a look at this one obscure metal.
Keeping up with climate For a look inside what it’s really like to drive a hydrogen car, this reporter rented one...