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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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Scientists Program Cells to Remember and Respond to Series of Stimuli
Synthetic biology allows researchers to program cells to perform novel functions such as fluorescing in response to a particular chemical or producing drugs in...
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...
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Robotic Consensus
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized...
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Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams
Researchers say they have developed a new way of modeling robot collaboration.
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Crunching Quantum Code
Researchers have developed a quantum computer design featuring an array of superconducting islands on top of a topological insulator.
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A Virtual 'guide Dog' For Navigation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have modified an algorithm for processing three-dimensional camera data, with power conservation in mind.
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Energy-Friendly Chip Can Perform Powerful Artificial-Intelligence Tasks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers this week introduced a new chip that implements neural networks.
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Deep-Learning Algorithm Predicts Photos' Memorability at "near-Human" Levels
Researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can predict how memorable or forgettable a given image is almost as accurately as humans.
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Untraceable Communication—guaranteed
Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.
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Biomedical Imaging at One-Thousandth the Cost
A biomedical imaging system developed by MIT researchers could ultimately replace a $100,000 microscope with components that cost only hundreds of dollars. The...
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System Automatically Converts 2d Video to 3D
A new system automatically renders two-dimensional soccer game video footage as three-dimensional video.
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How Wireless 'x-Ray Vision' Could Power Virtual Reality, Smart Homes, and Hollywood
The new RF Capture technology can pick up wireless reflections off the human body to visualize the silhouette of a person concealed behind a wall.
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Crash-Tolerant Data Storage
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed what they call the first computer file system that ensures no loss of data when the system crashes...
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Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an object...
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Making the New Silicon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed gallium nitride transistors to power electronic circuits.
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Consortium Including MIT Awarded $110m National Grant to Promote Photonics Manufacturing
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics will work to advance U.S. capabilities in integrated photonic technology.
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Object Recognition For Robots
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...
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Computing at the Speed of Light
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Sergio Cantu studies how light can act as an information carrier in computing and calculating.
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Automatic Bug Repair
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs...
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