Polymers like these are commonly used in car parts and as the “ink” for 3D-printed objects. The researchers are now exploring applications of the approach to other materials, such as rubber. “If... Read more »
Lupe earned a Grammy for “Daydreamin’” (featuring Jill Scott), which also appeared on his debut album. His second album, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool, was released in 2007 and reached platinum status in... Read more »
How ubiquitous keyboard software puts hundreds of millions of Chinese users at risk For millions of Chinese people, the first software they download onto devices is always the same: a keyboard app.... Read more »
Amid all the chatter about ChatGPT, artificial general intelligence, and the prospect of robots taking people’s jobs, regulators in the EU and the US have been ramping up warnings against AI and... Read more »
One of the sites the We Are Here Venice team is working is on a natural salt marsh, hugged on one side by a kidney-shaped platform of infill dredged from the lagoon.... Read more »
Starting in the PC era, Chinese software developers proposed all kinds of IME products to expedite typing, some even ditching phonetic spelling and allowing users to draw or choose the components of... Read more »
Heata’s process is simple yet introduces a radical shift toward sustainable management of data centers: instead of being cooled with fans, which is expensive and energy intensive, computers are cooled by a... Read more »
—Saima Sidik Both of the stories featured today are from the new ethics-themed print magazine issue of MIT Technology Review, set to go live on Wednesday. Subscribe to read it, if you... Read more »
Melting isn’t an option because carbon dioxide easily dissolves into water. Traditionally, scientists have used mechanical extraction methods, grinding up samples of individual layers of ice to free the air. But grinding... Read more »
When Xerox donated a new laser printer to MIT in 1980, the company couldn’t have known that the machine would ignite a revolution. While the early decades of software development generally ran... Read more »