2020s: A decade of possibilities for the entrepreneur in you
From Isha Leadership Academy To view video click HERE Namaskaram,Insight Online 2021 will focus on empowering the entrepreneur to take advantage of emerging possibilities in this decade. Every sector of the economy is going through fundamental changes. These changes are…
Lamborghini and MIT patent a new technology for supercapacitors
Sant’Agata Bolognese/Boston, 06 November 2019 – The collaboration between Automobili Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has produced a major initial result: a patent for an innovative synthetic material that will serve as the technological base for a new generation…
MIT scientists create the blackest black that has ever blacked
By Kellen Beck From Mashable Engineers at MIT have created a material that’s so black it set a new blackness record. This new ultrablack material, reported by MIT News Thursday, is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes grown on chlorine-etched aluminum foil…
AI reveals hidden objects in the dark
By Jon Fingas From engadget It could lead to safer medical scans and other breakthroughs. You might not see most objects in near-total darkness, but AI can. MIT scientists have developed a technique that uses a deep neural network to spot objects…
NHTSA study forecasts dangerous rise in world temperatures by 2100
By Jon Fingas From engadget But it’s being used to justify relaxing environmental standards. The Trump administration has accepted the scientific consensus of human-made global warming. However, it’s not being used to push for tougher environmental regulations — just the…
Researchers design self-powered robots the size of human cells
By Brian Heater From TechCrunch The latest robots out of MIT are small enough to float “indefinitely” in the air. Researchers accomplished the feat by attaching 2D electronics to colloids — tiny particles measuring around one-billionth to one-millionth of a…
Gadget of the week
MIT researchers turn water into ‘calm’ software By Aaron Souppouris, From engadget The Tangible Media Group has some bold ideas for the future of computing. Our lives are busy and full of distractions. Modern computing. with its constant notifications and…
MIT embarks on ambitious plan to build nuclear fusion plant by 2033
By Mallory Locklear From engadget It just received $50 million worth of funding to do so. MIT announced yesterday that it and Commonwealth Fusion Systems — an MIT spinoff — are working on a project that aims to make harvesting…
MIT CSAIL’s drone is never quite sure where it is
By Andrew Tarantola From engadget Somehow, that helps it avoid hitting trees. The current generation of autonomous drone navigation and flightpath planning systems are almost too precise, demanding hundreds of measurements be taken so that the UAV knows exactly where…
There might finally be a driverless car with some common sense
By Will Knight, MIT Technology Review From Business Insider Boston’s notoriously unfriendly drivers and chaotic roads may be the perfect testing ground for a fundamentally different kind of self-driving car. An MIT spin-off callediSee is developing and testing the autonomous…