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Ten to One founder aims to change people’s perception of rum

When he arrived in Cambridge as a first-year student, Farrell did not expect to end up in the spirits industry. “I was a 16-year-old when I got to MIT, and I don’t... Read more »

Building the next version of the internet

When she founded the company in 2017, she and her team chose an industry that was already familiar with AR: gaming. In November 2019, Illumix launched Five Nights at Freddy’s, a mobile... Read more »

Alan ’72 and Joan Henricks

“MIT was a very humbling experience for me,” says Alan Henricks, one of the first generation in his Midwestern family to attend college. “But at the end of four years, it also... Read more »

Dynamic duo

Robert Downey Jr. got to wear Iron Man’s suit playing fictional MIT alum Tony Stark on the big screen. But he marveled at what he called “real-world technology miracles” when he met... Read more »

This obscure shopping app is now America’s most downloaded

Take a deep breath. The Chinese Communist Party Congress news cycle is (basically) over.  There are many significant things from the high-level political assembly to talk about, mostly around understanding what the... Read more »

The Download: eternal youth, and the hunt for new metals

A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to a skin cell and waited about two weeks, some... Read more »

How scientists want to make you young again

For now, no one has a firm idea what these future treatments could look like. Some say they will be genetic therapies added to people’s DNA; others expect it’s possible to discover... Read more »

Machine learning could vastly speed up the search for new metals

The team managed to find these new metals through a combination of AI and lab experiments. First, they had to overcome a significant challenge: a lack of existing data they could use... Read more »

Do AI systems need to come with safety warnings?

Considering how powerful AI systems are, and the roles they increasingly play in helping to make high-stakes decisions about our lives, homes, and societies, they receive surprisingly little formal scrutiny.  That’s starting to... Read more »

The Download: US Navy drone swarms, and inside animals’ minds

The US Navy is working on ways to build, deploy, and control thousands of small drones that are able to flock together to overwhelm anti-aircraft defenses with sheer numbers, budget documents reveal.... Read more »