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The Digital Fabrication Revolution

A new digital revolution is coming, this time in fabrication. It draws on the same insights that led to the earlier digitizations of communication and computation, but now what is being programmed is...

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Creator of Passwords Says They’ve Gotten Out of Hand. ‘It’s Become Kind of a...

Creator of passwords says they’ve gotten out of hand. “It’s become kind of a nightmare.” http://t.co/KPHBVeCPTB (MIT) pic.twitter.com/CwsMVCEpjT — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 22, 2014 Filed under:...

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[VIDEO] Self-Folding Robots

A team of engineers at Harvard and MIT have designed and built a flat-packed robot that assembles itself and walks away. Learn more at http://hvrd.me/A2mM9 YouTubeFiled under: Mediasphere, Robotics,...

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Jonathan Gruber + MIT + Individual Mandate + Congressional Budget Office +...

If you’re a WordPress blogger and post something critical of the Obama Administration and Health Care legislation, do you ever find unrelated content suggestions promoting creepy or offensive content...

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MIT Technology Review: Some Companies See Virtual and Augmented Reality as a...

(Read the full story / Illustration by Bendik Kaltenborn) MIT Technology Review Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology Tagged: Advertising, Augmented Reality, Bendik Kaltenborn,...

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Finally: Networked Monkey Brains

Neurobiologists have shown that brain signals from multiple animals can be combined to perform certain tasks better than a single brain Mike Orcutt reports: New research proves that two heads are...

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A Chinese University Beat MIT to Become the World’s Top School for...

Read more… Filed under: Asia, China, Education, Global, Think Tank Tagged: Engineering, MIT, news, WSJ

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Space History: The Brilliant, Funny Computer Code Behind the Apollo 11 Mission

The code was written in the late ’60s by Margaret Hamilton and her team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory for the Apollo Guidance Computer. Paul Smith writes:...

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[VIDEO] REWIND: Breaking Vegas Documentary: The True Story of The MIT...

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The US May Have Just Pulled Even With China in the Race to Build...

The two countries are vying to create an exascale computer that could lead to significant advances in many scientific fields. Martin Giles writes: … The race to hit the exascale milestone is part of a...

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Are You a DFIO? The Four Ways Ex-Internet Idealists Explain Where It All Went...

21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries. Tim Hwang A long time ago, in the bad old days of the 2000s, debates about the internet were...

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