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MIT Media Lab director apologizes for accepting funds from Jeffrey Epstein

Joi Ito, head of the MIT Media Lab, apologized for taking investment money and donations from the now-deceased convicted sex offender.

The wild, neural network-powered future of knitting

Meet InverseKnit, a new tool developed by MIT that lets anybody design a pattern on a computer to 3D print a knitted garment.

The buildings of the future are alive!

In the not-so-distant future, our homes could grow, live, breathe—and even reproduce.

Why MIT’s social tech incubator is launching an investment fund

MIT Solve is now going to start backing small, for-profit ventures taking on global issues, from access to clean water to the need for a circular economy.

The hidden way cabs could promote healthier cities

An MIT research team has discovered that taxi rides could give urban planners a cheap, effective way to monitor the health of a city.

In the AI era, your voice could give away your face

MIT researchers trained a machine learning model to reconstruct a very rough likeness of someone’s face based only on a short audio clip.

Ikea is quietly debuting robotic furniture

Ori, an MIT spin-off that designs motorized, shape-shifting furniture, is licensing its technology to the furniture giant.

Living machines: MIT’s former president on the next technology revolution

In her new book, “The Age of Living Machines,” Susan Hockfield argues that we have entered a new era of scientific innovation in America.

MIT’s bold plan to save the Maldives–and the world

Using submersible devices to harness the forces of nature, these researchers believe they can build artificial reefs around the world’s islands and coastlines.

MIT just cracked open an historic time capsule–here’s what was inside

Buried in 1999, the capsule contained the 1992 proposal for the World Wide Web developed by Tim Berners-Lee–and Microsoft’s first product.

This MIT team is reinventing building by looking at the ancient world

Using some clever physics, designers figured out how humans could move 1,000-pound concrete slabs on their own.

MIT researcher surprised by Amazon’s “hostile” reaction to her face-recognition work

MIT’s radical plan to make buildings out of melanin

Neri Oxman’s latest project teases a future of resilience and diversity–both in buildings and the people that occupy them.

These NASA and MIT researchers created a shape-shifting airplane wing that could change air travel

NYPD unveils controversial algorithm to track crime patterns

The NYPD says the tool can help connect the dots between related crimes and that it’s taken steps to eliminate bias, but civil libertarians still urge caution.

Encryption pioneer aims to end our data dilemma with cryptography’s holy grail

A company founded by one of cryptography’s heavyweights is making waves with a long-awaited approach to the data privacy problem.

MIT invented a new type of robot hand that’s both adorable and terrifying

It’s more Venus fly trap than hand.

The subtle sexism of hackathons

And how to fix it in five steps.

The color of the ocean is changing–here’s why

By the end of the 21st century, the polar oceans may be tropical green, while other areas will shift to a dark blue. It’s another example of how climate change is altering our planet.