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Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear
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Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear

On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and...

New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind
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New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind

Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the...

The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun
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The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun

Like many guys from age 13–65, I suffer from LTAMFFT Syndrome.

Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
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Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality

Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...

A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm
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A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm

Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.

How Two Men ­nlocked Modern Encryption
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How Two Men ­nlocked Modern Encryption

In September of 1974, when he was 30 years old, Whitfield Diffie was obsessed with cryptography.

Reflected Smartphone Transmissions Enable Gesture Control
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Reflected Smartphone Transmissions Enable Gesture Control

University of Washington researchers have developed a low-power wireless sensing technology that allows users to interact with their smartphones using gestures...

Ios 8 Brings Big Boost For Web Programmers
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Ios 8 Brings Big Boost For Web Programmers

Web programmers rejoice: Apple's new iOS 8 has added support for standards that will let you build better games and more productive websites.

The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents

During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...

Fingertip Sensor Gives Robot a Sense of Touch
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Fingertip Sensor Gives Robot a Sense of Touch

A robot equipped with a novel optical sensor is able to grasp a USB plug and insert it into a USB port.

MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience
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MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience

When we need to send a command or a file from our smartphone to our laptop, we do it through menus.

Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest
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Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest

A small cybersecurity firm claimed this summer to have uncovered a scam by Russian Internet thieves to amass a mountain of stolen information from 420,000 Web and...

Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture
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Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture

Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs's office.

IBM to Sell Watson as a Big-Data Tool
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IBM to Sell Watson as a Big-Data Tool

Say you're an executive running an online marketing campaign for a new car, and you want to figure out which consumers in which parts of the country are likely...

The $3.2 Billion Man: Can Google's Newest Star Outsmart Apple?
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The $3.2 Billion Man: Can Google's Newest Star Outsmart Apple?

Lounging poolside in 93-degree July heat as Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" thrums through the patio speakers, Tony Fadell takes a sip of nonalcoholic beer and sinks far...

Korea ­ps Its Robots Game
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Korea ­ps Its Robots Game

In 1976 an animated film called Robot Taekwon V captured Korean kids' imaginations with its tale of a superhero robot fending off giant machines bent on world domination...

Virtual Classroom Links Campuses on Three Continents
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Virtual Classroom Links Campuses on Three Continents

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is using a virtual classroom to bring its facilities in Chicago, Hong Kong, and London closer together in a...

German-Style Training For American Factory Workers
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German-Style Training For American Factory Workers

German robotics company Festo AG wants to make American factory workers more tech-savvy.

Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away
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Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away

I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for internet...

Shenzhen Trip Report Visiting the World's Manufacturing Ecosystem
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Shenzhen Trip Report Visiting the World's Manufacturing Ecosystem

Last year, a group of Media Lab students visited Shenzhen with, bunnie, an old friend and my hardware guru.
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