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MIT Professor Shows Us His Incredible Bionic Prosthetics That Move Like Real Legs
Dr. Hugh Herr, head of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab, gave us a demonstra…
Alana Kakoyiannis
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MIT took 'approximately $800,000' in donations from Jeffrey Epstein's charities, MIT's president says in apology letter
"Over the course of 20 years, MIT received approximately $800,000 via foundations controlled by Jef…
Ben Gilbert
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MIT scientists find a way to protect lungs of Coronavirus patients from ‘cytokine storms’
Just because humans don’t have natural immunity against Coronavirus doesn’t mean that the body does…
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A social media app just for 'females' intentionally excludes trans women and some say its face-recognition AI discriminates against women of color, too
Users submit a selfie to confirm they are "female" before using the app. The CEO said she didn't mi…
Connor Perrett
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CNN ratings are dramatically down since Trump left office. The network lost nearly 50% of its target audience during primetime hours.
In a post-Trump era, cable-news network CNN is struggling to keep viewers watching. There has been …
Joshua Zitser
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Bill Gates made donations to MIT through Jeffrey Epstein -here are all of the tech mogul's connections to the financier
A spokesperson for the Gates Foundation told Business Insider that "Although Epstein pursued Bill G…
Kat Tenbarge
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman defended a former MIT official who accepted donations from Jeffrey Epstein
Ito and Hoffman have a well-documented relationship outside of their work at MIT. The pair spoke on…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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Dispensed: A digital health IPO bust, Walmart's push into healthcare, and an MIT project that didn't live up to the hype
Lydia here, back from my wedding and honeymoon and ready to dive into this week's deluge of healthc…
Lydia Ramsey
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An MIT researcher who analyzed facial recognition software found eliminating bias in AI is a matter of priorities
Before making her research public, Buolamwi sent the results to each company. IBM responded the sam…
Richard Feloni
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Epstein bombarded Bill Gates with calls and contacts to score a meeting with the billionaire a year before his $2 million donation to MIT
A spokesperson for Gates confirmed to Business Insider that both the tech titan and Epstein were pr…
Kat Tenbarge
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A US research lab with nearly $2 billion in government funding is hacking smart devices at the border and studying 'human odor signatures' to interrogate criminal suspects
Mitre is giving US agents a high-tech edge, like with software that can glean human fingerprints fr…
Katie Canales
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Jeffrey Epstein reportedly brought 'Eastern European' models with him to MIT, where employees planned how they could help them if they weren't 'there by choice'
If you or someone you know is struggling with depression or has had thoughts of harming themselves …
David Choi
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MIT is giving you control of a real person on Halloween in a dystopian game that sounds like an episode of 'Black Mirror'
One tweet quotes philosopher Marshall McLuhan, who famously wrote in 1964 that "the medium is the m…
Dave Mosher
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Inside MIT's bonkers, $60 million-per-year laboratory for geniuses
On September 20, I had the opportunity to tour the lab and speak with a number of the researchers. …
Rafi Letzter
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Watch a haunting MIT program transform photos into your worst nightmares
"We know that AI terrifies us in the abstract sense. But we wondered: [...] can AI elicit more powe…
Dave Mosher
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Meet the 'rockstar' MIT professor who's been linked to Brad Pitt and billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman
Page Six, which called Oxman a "rockstar MIT professor," reported that nothing romantic has develop…
Shana Lebowitz
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An elite group within one of America's most prestigious universities is embroiled in the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and its director just quit - here's what's going on
Moreover, the leadership at MIT's elite Media Lab group was seemingly aware of the problems with ac…
Ben Gilbert
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Forbes published a list of America's 100 'most innovative' leaders, and 99 of them are men
He continued: "When a publication like @Forbes has so many eyes on an article and it goes out with …
Kat Tenbarge
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An MIT startup made a simple device that turns filthy car exhaust into beautiful ink
In terms of improving air quality on a massive scale, it's highly unlikely that making ink out of c…
Dave Mosher
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Why Uber's self-driving cars won't last, according to an expert at MIT
It's an astonishing development, just a few short years after the taxi-replacement company began to…