It's my favorite in large part because it's my metadata. It comes from my Gmail account. The relationships it maps are, more or less, my life — orange circles for Planet Money, purple for Brooklyn, ...

Typically when we talk about autonomous taxis, we are talking about vehicles like cars, SUVs, and buses that can cruise the highways without drivers behind the wheel. MIT has been working on an ...

MIT last week launchedthe MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to find out how human intelligence works, in engineering terms, and how a deeper grasp of human intelligence can be applied to building ...

Ford is working with MIT on a research project that will deploy a new fleet of on-demand electric shuttles that can ferry students from class-to-class both on campus and on city roads at MIT’s ...

Two students at MIT have raised enough money to hand out $100 in bitcoin to every undergrad at the university — though they admit they don't know what will happen next. The MIT Bitcoin Project is ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is leading an ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation ...

In the 1950s, researchers predicted that the world would have nuclear fusion–which uses hydrogen atoms, an incredibly abundant fuel, to provide clean, almost limitless power, while avoiding the ...

Executives have poured billions into artificial intelligence, only to discover that most of those projects never make it past the pilot stage or fail to deliver meaningful returns. A recent wave of ...

Two new studies from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory shed light on ways machine learning can improve electronic health records and predictive analytics to help physicians ...

'Project Gaydar' started as a project for an MIT ethics and law class to find out how much information could be inferred by examining a person's network of friends. A software algorithm applied ...

If the world of wearable tech required a centre of the universe, it might just be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sure, Silicon Valley is where the cash is thrown around; Shenzhen is where ...