MIT has a cool surprise for Marvel fans. Every year, the school releases a video to announce that prospective students will receive their admission letters (famously delivered in tubes) on March 14 (Pi Day). The video features an MIT student (Ayomide F.) in the role of Marvel’s Riri Williams, aka Ironheart! Created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Stefano […]
A company called SolidEnergy Systems, a spinout from MIT, says it has new battery technology that will double the life of lithium-based power cells. The breakthrough involves a battery that replaces the traditional graphite anode with a thin, lithium-metal foil. The foil can hold more ions and thus more potential energy. Further, new chemistry protects […]
Toyota Motor Corp. will spend $50 million over five years to set up joint research centers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, the Japanese automaker said today. To manage its own artificial intelligence research, Toyota has also hired a robotics expert from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Pentagon R&D group […]
A grad student at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab along with a Google employee have developed a system called DeepShot, CNET reports, that makes transferring tasks from desktop or laptop computers to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets easier, using both transmitted URI information along with the mobile device’s camera to take […]
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