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3Q: Julien de Wit on the discovery of seven temperate, nearby worlds

news.mit.edu February 23, 2017 Comments Off on 3Q: Julien de Wit on the discovery of seven temperate, nearby worlds

Today, an international team including astronomers from MIT and the University of Liège in Belgium has announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star just 39 light... Read More

Intel Drone Technology Takes the NBA’s 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest to New Heights with First Drone Assist to Aaron Gordon

newsroom.intel.com February 19, 2017 Comments Off on Intel Drone Technology Takes the NBA’s 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest to New Heights with First Drone Assist to Aaron Gordon

During the 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest, as part of NBA All-Star festivities, NBA forward Aaron Gordon and Intel wowed viewers by collaborating on the first-ever slam dunk with assistance... Read More

Living sensors at your fingertips

https://news.mit.edu | Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office February 16, 2017 Comments Off on Living sensors at your fingertips

Cell-infused gloves and bandages light up when in contact with certain chemicals. Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, stretchy,... Read More

Voice control everywhere

https://news.mit.edu | Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office   February 14, 2017 Comments Off on Voice control everywhere

Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics. The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming... Read More

Piaggio Group Reinvents the Future of Transportation with Introduction of Gita, the First Offering by Piaggio Fast Forward

https://www.businesswire.com February 9, 2017 Comments Off on Piaggio Group Reinvents the Future of Transportation with Introduction of Gita, the First Offering by Piaggio Fast Forward

Piaggio Group, the largest European manufacturer of two-wheel motor vehicles, a leader in light mobility founded over 130 years ago, has launched Piaggio Fast Forward, a newly-established company based in... Read More

Toward all-solid lithium batteries

https://news.mit.edu | David L. Chandler | MIT News Office February 3, 2017 Comments Off on Toward all-solid lithium batteries

Researchers investigate mechanics of lithium sulfides, which show promise as solid electrolytes. Most batteries are composed of two solid, electrochemically active layers called electrodes, separated by a polymer membrane infused... Read More

Paris experiments with driverless buses

https://phys.org/ January 29, 2017 Comments Off on Paris experiments with driverless buses

Paris began its first experiment with driverless buses on Monday, with city officials saying they were eager to prepare for the coming “revolution” of autonomous vehicles. Two box-shaped electric vehicles... Read More

Artificial intelligence learns to predict heart failure

https://csc.mrc.ac.uk/ January 19, 2017 Comments Off on Artificial intelligence learns to predict heart failure

Computers have learned to predict survival in patients with a heart condition more accurately than is possible today. In the future, this may help doctors to identify patients at greatest... Read More