MIT Researchers Train An Algorithm To Predict How Boring Your Selfie Is
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created an algorithm they claim can predict how memorable or forgettable an image is almost as accurately as a human...
View ArticleMIT develops a new technique to load webpages faster
Webpage bloat is a growing problem. So no surprise techniques to speed page load times have often focused on data compression to try to shrink the number of milliseconds it takes for a website to...
View ArticleMIT explains self-driving cars with rubber duckies
Self-driving cars seem an awful lot like magic. Containing elements of automotive technology, computer vision, artificial intelligence and many other cutting-edge fields of tech. So, if you wanted to...
View ArticleExploiting machine learning in cybersecurity
While more and more jobs are being forfeited to robots and artificial intelligence, is it conceivable to convey to machines a responsibility as complicated as cybersecurity? The topic is being hotly...
View ArticleMIT creates video you can reach out and touch
Strictly speaking, video isn’t an interactive medium, but a new research project from MIT aims to change that: The school’s CSAIL lab has come up with a technique through which viewers can reach out...
View Article‘MegaMIMO 2.0’ wireless routers work together to triple bandwidth and double...
Wireless interference is one of those things that we tend to not think about, because, well, we can’t see it. But routers are all over the place, sometimes several in a room when you’re in an office,...
View ArticleMIT programs a robot to self-correct when a human detects a mistake
In a new video from MIT’s CSAIL department, a smirking industrial robot from Rethink picks up spray paint cans and spools of wire, dropping them in the properly labeled bin. The robot hesitates...
View ArticleCrunch Report | Jay Z Has Arrived
More news about Jay Z’s new venture (Arrive), robots that fix their mistakes and Y Combinator launches its MOOC. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
View ArticleMIT develops a vibrating wearable to help people with visual impairments...
For such a simple tool, the white cane has been incredibly enduring. With all of the technological advances that have been made over the past century, we haven’t come up with much better than a stick...
View ArticleTaking a ride in MIT’s self-driving wheelchair
Over the past few months, CSAIL’s (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) self-driving wheelchair has become a familiar sight around the MIT halls. It’s a nice little rolling...
View ArticleMIT’s Daniela Rus is leading a robotics revolution
Daniela Rus’s morning is packed. My arrival appears to come as a bit of a surprise. She considers the situation for a moment before inviting me in. Rus has allowed me to sit in for a packed morning of...
View ArticleHere are some of the groundbreaking robots you’ll see at TC Sessions:...
TC Sessions: Robotics takes place on Monday, July 17 at MIT, and the agenda is stacked with the best minds, engineers and founders in the robotic industry. And many are bringing some mechanical...
View ArticleMIT is building a system that can identify a recipe using pictures of food
Mastering the ability to distinguish hot dogs from not hot dogs is truly one of mankind’s greatest achievements. Attempting to one-up that sort of masterstroke would surely be flying too close to the...
View ArticleMIT’s Robogami lets you build custom 3D-printable robots from standard,...
Flat-pack furniture made IKEA a global powerhouse, and the same principles may help create a new generation of robots. Interactive Robogami is a project from MIT that lets users create ambulatory...
View ArticleMIT’s new robot can put on different exoskeletons to gain new powers
MIT’s Computers Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has created a new robot that’s designed to be as adaptable as possible, with the ability to use different “outfits” that each provide...
View ArticleCrunch Report | Amazon’s New High-End Echo
Amazon reveals its high-end Echo, MIT’s CSAIL developed a robot that can wear different exoskeletons, Ford and Lyft tie the knot and Delta gives people free messaging on WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger...
View ArticleMIT Researchers Train An Algorithm To Predict How Boring Your Selfie Is
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created an algorithm they claim can predict how memorable or forgettable an image is almost as accurately as a human —...
View ArticleMIT develops a new technique to load webpages faster
Webpage bloat is a growing problem. So no surprise techniques to speed page load times have often focused on data compression to try to shrink the number of milliseconds it takes for a website to heave...
View ArticleMIT explains self-driving cars with rubber duckies
Self-driving cars seem an awful lot like magic. They contain elements of automotive technology, computer vision, artificial intelligence and many other cutting-edge fields of tech. So, if you wanted to...
View ArticleExploiting machine learning in cybersecurity
Thanks to technologies that generate, store and analyze huge sets of data, companies are able to perform tasks that previously were impossible. But the added benefit does come with its own setbacks,...
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