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Block Out Your Windows With a Press of a Button
We’ve all seen it in the movies when a character walks into their office for a private phone call and the city is glaring at them through their windows. A button press later and the windows are suddenly opaque, blocking out light and vision. While technologies have existed to do this,…
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Control Your Gadgets With a Tattoo?
We all like the ability to control our stuff without being directly in front of it. From a simple TV remote to an app on your phone to control your heating, lighting and speakers all around your house, saving those precious seconds appeals to everyone. It would seem that Microsoft…
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MIT Created 3D Movies Without the Glasses
When it comes to movies and technology we are constantly looking at bigger and better ways to enjoy our films. From comfortable seats in the cinema to the latest high-definition screens, when it comes to cinemas there tend to be two stages, either big steps or quick trends. When it…
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MIT Creates Anonymity Network
When it comes to your online identity people are very protective of it. When it comes to remaining secret, some people decide to use anonymity networks such as Tor to help avoid detection online. While good the Tor network isn’t perfect so as a result, MIT has created a new…
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Researchers Close to Developing Holographic Displays
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and Harvard University have developed a method of immersing glass particles in liquid which could lead to holographic displays through its light diffusion properties. Experiments testing the liquid suspension of glass demonstrated that the diffusion of light passed through the mixture was…
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Origami Meat Robot Can Remove Debris from Your Belly
MIT researchers have developed an ingestible robot, made from folded meat, which can perform tasks within the stomach that range from removing foreign objects that have been accidentally swallowed to repairing tissue damage. The tiny droid, made from a folded sheet of pig intestine, could herald a revolution in exploring…
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How To Detect The Zika Virus With A $1 Paper-based Test
As we develop so does the world around us, one of these developments is the explosive boom of the Zika Virus. The virus has had such a large impact that many are looking at ways of stopping or helping slow the spread of the devastating disease, including a team featuring members…
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Researchers Develop Ways to Calculate Distance Through WiFi
We all use WiFi at some point, be it at work or at home, we rely on the technology to avoid the miles and miles of cables that we would overwise have to plug and unplug every time we wanted to grab a drink or watch a movie on Netflix.…
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This MIT Drone Can Mimic What You Draw
The researchers over at MIT have been keeping themselves quite busy as of late, especially as far as drone research is concerned. We’ve recently stumbled upon some news regarding a very interesting drone developed by MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group, and what makes this particular device special is the fact that…
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MIT’s Polaris Hopes To Speed Up Your Browsing Online
Sadly the experience on some websites these days can very quickly be summed up by the word “loading”. We like our pictures, our videos and some even like ads, the problem being is that everything you view on the internet has to come from somewhere and that is where the…
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MIT Attempts to Out-Trump Trump With DeepDrumpf Twitterbot
Donald Trump’s antics on social media are infamous at this point, seeming crazy and unpredictable at times. Now, we can all look forward to an improvement to Trump thanks to the field of deep learning. DeepDrumpf is a Twitterbot created by a researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab…
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Energy-Friendly Chip Could Boost Neural Networks
The quest to gain a greater insight into artificial Intelligence has been exciting and has also opened up a range of possibilities that have included “convolutional neural networks”, these are large visual networks of simple information-processing units which are loosely modelled on the anatomy of the human brain. These networks…
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Elon Musk Says Hyperloop “Is Really Going to happen”
SpaceX just staged a 3-day event at the Texas A&M University, where the pioneering space company brought together teams of engineering students from around the world to compete for a chance to have their pod designs built and tested on SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s proposed Hyperloop transportation system. Musk himself even made…
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MIT Researchers Find Way to Power Wearable Tech with Bending Motions
From smartwatches to fitness trackers, the number of wearable electronics in our lives are only set to increase, but they all have one limiting factor: power. But what if all of these wearables could power themselves from your movements, just like a self-winding mechanical watch? MIT may just have the…
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US Researchers Develop Light-Based CPU
A group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of technology have created a CPU that eschews electricity to transfer data in favour of light, which operates at astronomical speeds but uses a fraction of the energy required to run…
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