Elizabeth Holmes will begin prison sentence on May 30
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes to report to prison on May 30 to begin her 11-year sentence after she lost a last-minute appeal to...
Cognitive scientists develop new model explaining difficulty in language comprehension
Cognitive scientists have long sought to understand what makes some sentences more difficult to comprehend than others. Any account of language comprehension, researchers believe, would benefit from understanding difficulties in...
Strengthening electron-triggered light emission
The way electrons interact with photons of light is a key part of many modern technologies, from lasers to solar panels to LEDs. But the interaction is inherently a weak...
How Humanity Can Avoid an AI Takeover
We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn’t necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology. Source
Simulating discrimination in virtual reality
Have you ever been advised to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes?” Considering another person’s perspective can be a challenging endeavor — but recognizing our errors and biases is...
Elon Musk compares George Soros to X-Men villain Magneto
Elon Musk scornfully compared George Soros to the X-Men supervillain Magneto after the billionaire Democratic donor disclosed he had dumped a massive trove of Tesla stock. Musk went on to...
Unpacking the “black box” to build better AI models
When deep learning models are deployed in the real world, perhaps to detect financial fraud from credit card activity or identify cancer in medical images, they are often able to...
WhatsApp users joke Chat Lock feature ‘tailored for cheating’
WhatsApp just made getting away with cheating easier and finding out your partner is cheating harder. The messaging app owned by Meta is launching a “Chat Lock” feature that will...
A better way to study ocean currents
To study ocean currents, scientists release GPS-tagged buoys in the ocean and record their velocities to reconstruct the currents that transport them. These buoy data are also used to identify...
I went on a date with ChatGPT’s CarynAI
I was romancing the clone — and she turned into a salacious sex machine. Artificial intelligence is threatening to displace humans in nearly every sector, from cheating on college entrance...
An AI challenge only humans can solve
The Dark Ages were not entirely dark. Advances in agriculture and building technology increased Medieval wealth and led to a wave of cathedral construction in Europe. However, it was a...
Fugitive ex-Apple engineer charged for trying to steal self-driving car tech
The Justice Department said Tuesday it has charged a former Apple engineer with attempting to steal the firm’s technology related to autonomous systems, including self-driving cars, and then fleeing to China. The...
Program teaches US Air Force personnel the fundamentals of AI
A new academic program developed at MIT aims to teach U.S. Air and Space Forces personnel to understand and utilize artificial intelligence technologies. In a recent peer-reviewed study, the program...
NBCU jabs Twitter after Linda Yaccarino’s hiring as CEO
NBCUniversal took a dig at Elon Musk’s Twitter on Monday – just days after the social media company poached NBCU’s longtime ad sales chief Linda Yaccarino to serve as its...
Engineering in harmony
How does an ensemble play music together while apart? This was the question facing Frederick Ajisafe and the rest of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) at the start of the...
