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Imaginez qu’on frappe à votre porte. Vous ouvrez, et là, votre grand-mère décédée depuis 3 ans vous demande si vous avez pensé à commander des cartouches d’encre pour l’imprimante, avec sa voix, ses expressions, et tout. De la science-fiction ? Non, c’est le futur très très...
Earlier this year, the $800 million Vera Rubin Observatory commenced its decade-long quest to create an extremely detailed time-lapse movie of the universe. Rubin is capable of capturing many more stars than any other astronomical observatory ever built; it also sees many more satellites. Up to 40%...
Vous connaissez l’Analogue Pocket ? C’est une super console FPGA qui fait tourner vos cartouches Game Boy à la perfection mais qui coûte un bras et reste malheureusement fermée comme une huître. Et bah Eli Lipsitz a décidé de faire mieux avec Game Bub, et je trouve le résultat vraiment...
Anantha Chandrakasan became the Institute’s new provost on July 1, succeeding Cynthia Barnhart, SM ’86, PhD ’88, who announced her decision to step down in February. Chandrakasan, who earned his BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California,...
Today, 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. But the atmosphere contains millions of billions of gallons of water in the form of vapor, and researchers have tried various strategies to capture and condense it in places where traditional sources are inaccessible. Now...
Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Junior Peña learned to keep his eyes down and his schedule full. In his neighborhood, a glance could invite trouble, and many kids—including his older brother—were pulled into gang culture. He knew early on that he wanted something else. With his parents...
On a typical afternoon, MIT’s new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building hums with life. On the fourth floor, a jazz combo works through a set in a rehearsal suite as engineers adjust microphone levels in a nearby control booth. Downstairs, the layered rhythms of Senegalese drumming pulse through a...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion In 2024 alone, 350 known drone incursions were reported over a...
On a Friday evening last December, every tier of US law enforcement—federal, state, and local—was dispatched to the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, a military research installation outside Boston. A squadron of about 15 to 20 drones had been spotted violating the base’s restricted airspace....
Baafour Asiamah-Adjei ’03 is the founder and CEO of one of Ghana’s largest private power companies, Genser Energy—an entrepreneurial engineer who aims to deliver sustainable energy across West Africa. And he credits MIT with much of his success. But when he was applying to colleges, the Institute...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Bon, on va pas se mentir. Il y a des objets qui marquent une époque. Le transistor, le micro-processeur, l’iPhone… Et puis il y a ces créations plus discrètes qui révolutionnent un domaine entier sans que le...
Vous vous souvenez de l’effet Aero de Windows Vista ? Cette transparence vitreuse qui donnait l’impression que votre bureau était fait de verre dépoli ? Et bien un designer vient de ressortir ce concept du placard, mais avec une approche qui pourrait vraiment être le Windows du futur....