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Robots and Origami: Designing and 3D Printing Foldable Robots Origami is no longer limited to folding a sheet of paper into a crane. Now there’s Interactive Robogami, a new system under development from researchers at MIT that gives those of us who are neither a roboticist nor a mechanical engineer the tools to design our own robots. |
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Sensors and Spinach: When Plants Detect Bombs Fitness trackers, cars, and refrigerators are embedded with sensors to inform us about our health, where we’re going, and maybe one day, let us know that we’re running out of milk. But what could embedded spinach leaves accomplish? For one thing, send an alert to the presence of explosives. |
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Can Cryptocurrency Bring Positive Change? Do you think cryptocurrency is the future of money? Will digital money that isn't run by any government or bank ever become trusted enough to use in our everyday lives? MIT is one institution that seems to think so. |
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Can Google Glass Help Those with Autism? Brain Power, a Cambridge start-up, is attempting to use Google Glass to help those on the autism spectrum who may have difficulty learning and interacting, including social interactions, speech delays, learning to control certain behaviors, and help with recognizing and forming abstract groupings. |
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Take a Look: Google’s Artificial Neural Network Thinks Art Google posted an update about their AI research for image classification and speech recognition, including artificial neural networks (ANNs). While it’s still difficult to pinpoint what’s going to work and what isn’t, there’s an intriguing byproduct—artistic imagery that Google calls "Inceptionism." |
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MIT Proposes to Simplify Web Programming with Ur/Web Tag this as an upcoming technology development to watch. A researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new open source programming language called Ur/Web that proposes to “take the grunt work out of Web development,” as well as make web applications more secure. |
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Time to Learn Linux? Try (Free) Online edX The Linux Foundation has announced it is building a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) program with edX, the nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and MIT. "Introduction to Linux will be the first class available as a MOOC and will be free to everyone, everywhere." |
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NSF Awards $25 Million for Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines How does the human brain actually work? To find out, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $25 million grant over five years to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to establish the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM). |
