Technology

“These Indigenous people were killed for their land,” Alvin Harvey, SM ’20, an Aero/Astro PhD student and a member of the Navajo Nation, said in a presentation to a faculty meeting this spring. “As a land-grant college, MIT has an…

Don Mattes started giving to the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT before he himself was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Since his death in 2020, his wife, Glenda, has carried forward Don’s passion for its work. “My…

Secreted beneath MIT’s Killian Court and accessible only through a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels, a clandestine lab conducts boundary-pushing research, fed by money siphoned from a Department of Defense grant. In these shadowed,…

All too often, the work of developing global disaster and climate resiliency happens when disaster—such as a hurricane, earthquake, or tsunami—has already ravaged entire cities and torn communities apart. But Elizabeth Petheo, MBA ’14,…

Netflix spends around $17 billion a year on new TV shows and movies. But its newest customers don’t think they’re getting their money’s worth: New data shows that Netflix subscribers are more likely to bail on the subscription service…

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The cryptocurrency market was in ruins. But Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were jamming.The billionaire twins, best known for their supporting role in the creation of Facebook, twirled and shimmied across the stage with…

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: London-based Birdie, which offers digital tools to in-home care providers to optimize their workflow, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $52M — Birdie, a UK-based…

The home rental platform said a temporary ban, which was introduced in 2020, was popular with hosts. Source link

The Ryder Review finds existing laws are fragmented and have failed to keep up with technology. Source link

Users will be able to receive messages from their GP and see their medical records, the government says. Source link