Collaborate Disseminate
“The real estate left over for the skeptics of quantum mechanics has shrunk considerably.” Continue reading Ancient Starlight Just Helped Confirm the Reality of Quantum Entanglement
A bend and a twist make dry noodles break in half, instead of shattering all over the kitchen. Continue reading Finally, We Know How to Break Dry Spaghetti Noodles Perfectly In Half
Let’s face it, one of the challenges of wearable electronics is that people are filthy. Anything you wear is going to get dirty. If it touches you, it is going to get sweat and oil and who knows what else? And on the other side it’s going to get spills and dirt and all sorts of things we don’t want to think about on it. For regular clothes, that’s not a problem, you just pop them in the washer, but you can’t say the same for wearable electronics. Now researchers at MIT have embedded diodes like LEDs and photodetectors, into …read more
Mayank Varia is a research associate professor of computer science at Boston University and the co-director of BU’s Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a PhD f… Continue reading Mayank Varia, Boston University pt. 1 – Business Security Weekly #92
Mayank Varia is a research associate professor of computer science at Boston University and the co-director of BU’s Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a PhD f… Continue reading Mayank Varia, Boston University pt. 2 – Business Security Weekly #92
Stand up right now and walk around for a minute. We’re pretty sure you didn’t see everywhere you stepped nor did you plan each step meticulously according to visual input. So why should robots do the same? Wouldn’t your robot be more versatile if it could use its vision to plan a path, but leave most of the walking to the legs with the help of various sensors and knowledge of joint positions?
That’s the approach [Sangbae Kim] and a team of researchers at MIT are taking with their Cheetah 3. They’ve given it cameras but aren’t using them yet. …read more
Continue reading Cheetah 3 Is Learning To Move Blindly Before Learning To See
The Telemetron generates musical compositions using gyroscopic “chimes.” Continue reading The ‘Telemetron’ Is a Post-Earth Musical Instrument Designed for Zero Gravity
In Tracking Security Innovation, Splunk acquired VictorOps for $120M, Claroty raised $60 in Series B, “MIT’s Mind-Blowing Solutions to the 9 Hardest Startup Problems”, “Two Techniques for Helping Employees Change Ingrained Habit… Continue reading Splunk, VictorOps, & Claroty – Business Security Weekly #89
Most of us take it for granted that water is as close as your kitchen tap. But that’s not true everywhere. Two scientists at MIT have a new method for harvesting water from fog, especially fog released from cooling towers such as those found from power plants. It turns out, harvesting water from fog isn’t a new idea. You typically insert a mesh into the air and collect water droplets from the fog. The problem is with a typical diameter of 10 microns, the water droplets mostly miss the mesh, meaning they typically extract no more than 2% of the …read more
Researchers have been working on this technology since the 70s, and it’s getting more precise. Continue reading MIT Device Uses WiFi to ‘See’ Through Walls and Track Your Movements