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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...
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...
Selon les informations de The Register, VMware prépare une évolution technique importante de la Cloud Foundation : son arrivée sur l'architecture Arm. Il s'agit de porter les couches et les composants de la Cloud Foundation sur Arm. L'objectif serait de proposer une plateforme complète Arm d'ici le...
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAIBy Karen Hao ’15PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $32 Read MIT Technology Review’s excerpt here. Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the ArtsBy Samuel Jay Keyser, HM ’97, emeritus professor of linguisticsMIT PRESS, 2025, $30 Data, Systems, and...
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,...
Most people with type 1 diabetes inject insulin to prevent their blood sugar levels from getting too high. However, if their blood sugar gets too low, it can lead to confusion, seizures, and even death. To combat this hypoglycemia, some patients carry syringes of glucagon, a hormone that stimulates...
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...
Art restoration takes steady hands and a discerning eye. For centuries, conservators have identified areas needing repair and then mixed the exact shades needed to fill in one area at a time. Restoring a single painting can take anywhere from a few weeks to over a decade. Now an MIT graduate...
Textiles account for 5% of landfill space—and clothing made with polyester can take up to 200 years to decompose. Massachusetts tackled the problem by banning disposal of clothing and fabrics in 2022. And Infinite Threads, a spinoff of the Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee, is...
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...