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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%...
When I picked up my daughter from summer camp, we settled in for an eight-hour drive through the Appalachian mountains, heading from North Carolina to her grandparents’ home in Kentucky. With little to no cell service for much of the drive, we enjoyed the rare opportunity to have a long, thoughtful...
When Jitender was a child in New Delhi, both his parents worked as manual scavengers—a job that involved clearing the city’s sewers of solid waste by hand. Now, he is among almost 200 contractors involved in the Delhi government’s effort to shift from this manual process to safer mechanical...
Vous recevez un fichier Word et votre premier réflexe, en bon libriste, c’est de lancer LibreOffice qui met 30 minutes à démarrer, juste pour lire trois paragraphes. Ou pire, vous êtes en SSH sur un serveur et là, c’est le drame total, impossible de lire un doc Word là bas. Hé bien ce...
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...
Stackoverflow a publié son Developer Survey 2025. La section IA est intéressante car elle montre que l'IA est assez largement utilisée mais que les développeurs ne sont pour autant aveugles sur la pertinence de cette technologie.Oui, les développeurs utilisent assez massivement l'IA : 47 % le font...
Il paraitrait que Microsoft utilise 86Box pour tester son code source vintage… Réalité ou rumeur, on n’en sait rien mais si c’est vrai, ils vont être content car l’émulateur vient de franchir un cap avec sa version 5.0 sortie y’a quelques jours. La grosse nouveauté...
Annonce surpise ces dernières heures, Microsoft a décidé de placer DocumentDB sous l'égide la Fondation Linux. C'est la dernière étape de la transformation de sa base de données orientée documents. Début de l'année, Microsoft l'avait mis en open source. Désormais, c'est la fondation Linux qui va...
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,...
A team at MIT and the Scripps Research Institute has made important progress toward vaccines that can protect against HIV, and potentially other diseases, with a single dose. The researchers treated mice with a vaccine that combines two different adjuvants, materials that help stimulate the immune...
As I write in late July, we’re contending with a major tax increase on the annual returns from MIT’s endowment as well as other investments and assets. This new tax burden will strain the resources we use to support research, innovation, and student scholarships and financial aid—the heart and soul...
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...