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The longer you report on tech, the more you realize how often we get the future wrong. Predictions have a way of not coming true. The things that seem so clear now... Read more »

AI’s growth needs the right interface

Imagine if you didn’t have to accept the features some tech genius announced on a wave of hype. Imagine if, instead of downloading some app someone else built, you could describe the... Read more »

Screening new materials with computer vision

Graduate students Eunice Aissi and Alexander Siemenn, SM ’21, who reported on the work with colleagues including professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, used the technique to analyze perovskites, materials that have... Read more »

A tool that lets users fight misinformation online

Users click a button to open a side panel where they label content as accurate or inaccurate or question its accuracy, and they can identify other sources whose assessments are trustworthy. Then,... Read more »

Lakes and seas on Titan may be shaped by waves

“We had the same starting shorelines, and we saw that you get a really different final shape under uniform erosion versus wave erosion,” Perron says. “They all kind of look like the... Read more »

How a butterfly’s scales are born

An optical micrograph shows the scales on the wings of an adult painted lady.COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS Using a special microscopic technique to peer through an opening they created in the chrysalis... Read more »

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 in 1987 to promote a “vegetarian lifestyle, and prevention of cruelty and... Read more »

Thousands celebrate Tech Reunions ’24

Take a beautiful spring weekend, add brass rats and Tim the Beaver swag, mix in technology talks and outdoor activities, fuse it all together with a lot of socializing, and what do... Read more »

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 the graduating class. “In its charming quirkiness, the Banana Lounge is ‘very... Read more »

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, a chemist who helped pioneer the field of chemical biology. Unlike biochemistry,... Read more »