3 Things James O’Donnell is into right now
Overthink This is a podcast in which two very smart people (who happen to be young and hilarious professors of…
Recent books from the MIT community
Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal GoodBy Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the…
Designing better products with AI and sustainability
As global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2024pressure is mounting on companies to reduce their environmental footprint in…
Open the pod bay doors, Claude
It’s a well-worn trope in science fiction. We see it in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s…
How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters
“They give us a lay of the land,” he says. “This is what a particular region has been like at…
On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop
Supported by Kutkov’s technical expertise and Stepanets’s organizational prowess, Kovalskyy’s warehouse became the major repair hub (though other volunteers also…
I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours
This process, called forensic investigative genetic genealogy, or FIGG, has since helped solve hundreds of murders and sexual assaults. Still,…
The case against humans in space
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a scholar of religion at Wesleyan University, presents a thorough diagnosis of this exact pathology in her 2022…
Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI
Building these models took a few months, but Pak says they were very quick at designing candidates for therapies once…
The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA data to the police
Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the…