MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics
A new device concept opens the door to compact, high-performance transistors with built-in memory.
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Pie Day 2026
Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/behind-the-scenes-of-thirty-pies/
MIT Technology ReviewThe Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion
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. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, leaving…
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The case for fixing everything
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described him as a mainstay of both counterculture and cyberculture, and with Maintenance, Brand wants us…
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How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba. The real ambition for many of these researchers was the robot of science fiction—one…
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넷플릭스 설립자 헤이스팅스, 6월 퇴임 발표
넷플릭스를 세계적인 온라인스트리밍서비스(OTT) 기업으로 성장시킨 리드 헤이스팅스 이사회 의장이 오는 6월 퇴임하겠다는 의사를 밝혔다. 16일(현지시간) 미국 뉴욕타임즈(NYT)에 따르면 헤이스팅스 의장은 이날 1분기 실적발표와 함께 주주들에게 보낸 서한에서 이같이 밝
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현대차, '현대인증중고차 워런티 플러스' 출시
현대차가 현대인증중고차 구매 고객을 위한 추가 보증 상품 '현대인증중고차 워런티 플러스'를 출시한다고 17일 밝혔다. '현대인증중고차 워런티 플러스'는 고객이 중고차 구매 이후에도 안심하고 차량을 운행할 수 있도록 기획된 맞춤형 보증 연장 상품으로, 기존 인증중고차 기
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Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments
The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason, purpose-built small language models (SLMs) offer a promising path to operationalize AI in…
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Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer
There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural: who owns the operating layer where intelligence is applied, governed, and improved.…
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The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles
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. Cyberscammersare bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram Inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a banking app on his phone. It asks for a photo linked to the…
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Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion
The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict with Iran. AI is no longer just helping humans analyze intelligence. It is now an…
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The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?
When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home and shifted to remote work. Air travel collapsed. Cities—normally filled with the honking, screeching, engine-gunning riot of transportation—became as silent as…
MIT Technology ReviewThe quest to measure our relationship with nature
As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have done some destructive things to the ecosystems around us. In the 21st century, though, mainstream conservation is learning that humans can be a force for good. Foresters are turning to Indigenous burning practices to prevent wildfires. Biologists are realizing that flower-dotted meadows were…
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Is carbon removal in trouble?
Last week, news outlets reported that Microsoft was pausing carbon removal purchases. It was something of a bombshell. The thing is, Microsoft is the carbon removal market. The company has single-handedly purchased something like 80% of all contracted carbon removal. If you’re looking for someone to pay you to suck carbon dioxide out of the…
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콘진원, 정보화·공공데이터 등 디지털 행정 평가 3관왕
한국콘텐츠진흥원이 주요 디지털 행정 평가 3개 부문에서 모두 우수한 성과를 거뒀다고 16일 밝혔다. 콘진원은 문화체육관광부가 15일 발표한 '2025년 문화정보화 수준평가'에서 '우수' 등급을 획득하며 3년 연속 우수등급을 달성했다. 공공데이터 제공 운영실태 평가에서는
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KT스카이라이프 '포착', 기자협회 축구대회 AI 중계
KT스카이라이프가 AI 기반 스포츠 분석 솔루션 '포착'으로 '제52회 한국기자협회 서울지역 축구대회' 전 경기를 중계한다. KT스카이라이프는 지난해 9월, 한국기자협회와 'AI사업 협력을 위한 업무협약'을 체결하고, 51회 기자협회 축구대회를 중계한 바 있다. '포착
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“전기차 30만대 시대, 충전갈등 더 못 둔다”…김성환 기후부 장관, 요금·운영체계 대폭 손질 예고
공동주택 전기차 충전요금을 둘러싼 갈등이 확산되는 가운데 정부가 요금체계와 운영구조를 대폭 손질할 것을 예고했다. 전기·수소차 보급이 올해 30만대에 달할 것으로 전망되는 가운데 '아파트 충전요금 상승' '가격 락인' 등 구조적 문제가 사회적 갈등으로 번지자 정부가 제
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