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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
When Tableau was founded back in 2003, not many people were thinking about artificial intelligence to drive analytics and visualization, but over the years the world has changed and the company recognized that it needed talent to keep up with new trends. Today, it announced it was acquiring Empirical Systems, an early stage startup with […] Continue reading Tableau gets AI shot in the arm with Empirical Systems acquisition
People have begun writing letters directly to the AI, pleading with it to seek a more positive outlook on life. Continue reading We Asked MIT Researchers Why They Made a ‘Psychotic AI’ That Only Sees Death
When engineering a solution to a problem, an often-successful approach is to keep the design as simple as possible. Simple things are easier to produce, maintain, and use. Whether you’re building a robot, operating system, or automobile, this type of design can help in many different ways. Now, researchers at MIT’s Little Devices Lab have taken this philosophy to testing for various medical conditions, using a set of modular blocks.
Each block is designed for a specific purpose, and can be linked together with other blocks. For example, one block may be able to identify Zika virus, and another block …read more
While robots have been making our lives easier and our assembly lines more efficient for over half a century now, we haven’t quite cracked a Jetsons-like general purpose robot yet. Sure, Boston Dynamics and MIT have some humanoid robots that are fun to kick and knock over, but they’re far from building a world-ending Terminator automaton.
But not every robot needs to be human-shaped in order to be general purpose. Some of the more interesting designs being researched are modular robots. It’s an approach to robotics which uses smaller units that can combine into assemblies that accomplish a given task. …read more
Continue reading Modular Robotics: When You Want More Robots in Your Robot
Mapping rural areas is a barrier to autonomous vehicles operating in those areas, but cars might not need maps at all. Continue reading MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars to Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map
Recent news reports have claimed that an MIT headset can read your mind, but as it turns out that’s a little bit of fake news. There is a headset — called AlterEgo — but it doesn’t actually read your mind. Rather, it measures subtle cues of you silently vocalizing words. We aren’t sure exactly how that works, but the FAQ claims it is similar to how you experience reading as a child.
If you read much science fiction, you probably recognize this as subvocalization, which has been under study by the Army and NASA. However, from what we know, the …read more
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MIT Media Lab researchers call it AlterEgo headset. Though it sounds
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