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NASA Discovers New Super Planet That Is 23 Times Bigger Than Earth

NASA Discovers New Super Planet That Is 23 Times Bigger Than Earth

A NASA spacecraft has spotted a new gaseous planet that is 23 times the size of Earth, scientists at the annual American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle have announced. The space agency’s planet-hunting TESS ( Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission was behind the major finding, and it has also observed three new planets and six […]

5y ago

MIT Professor Neri Oxman Denies Brad Pitt Dating Rumors

MIT Professor Neri Oxman Denies Brad Pitt Dating Rumors

Turns out, Brad Pitt isn’t dating MIT professor Neri Oxman after all. Brad Pitt and Dr. Oxman were rumored to be seeing each other back in April when Pitt visited MIT’s Media Lab. According to People, Dr. Oxman “emphatically” denied dating the actor in a recent interview with the New York Times. Dr. Oxman is […]

6y ago

Tiny ASTERIA Satellite Spots Exoplanet In Transit, A First For CubeSat Technology

Tiny ASTERIA Satellite Spots Exoplanet In Transit, A First For CubeSat Technology

The mini-spacecraft known as CubeSats are capable of many wondrous things, just like the MarCO twin satellites, the first-ever to leave Earth’s orbit and set out on a journey toward Mars, have recently proven. One other soldier in the brave CubeSat army has now reached another type of milestone, becoming the first to measure the […]

6y ago

NASA’s TESS Satellite Has Officially Started Its Exciting New Planet Hunter Mission

NASA’s TESS Satellite Has Officially Started Its Exciting New Planet Hunter Mission

On July 25, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) officially began its science operation with the exciting goal of seeking out new exoplanets in its wake. The first data that it collects will be transmitted straight back to Earth when August rolls around and will continue every 13.5 days afterward. As Phys.org report, once the […]

6y ago

Surveillance That Can See Through Walls: MIT Develops ‘RF-Pose,’ Which Can Identify And Track People

Surveillance That Can See Through Walls: MIT Develops ‘RF-Pose,’ Which Can Identify And Track People

Researchers at MIT have developed a new technology, which they have dubbed “RF-Pose.” With RF-Pose, you can, in a sense, “see through” walls — the technology can identify the person, and their actions. This includes whether they are walking, how fast they are moving, waving, sitting, or standing. It integrates artificial intelligence, and offers somewhere […]

6y ago

MIT Creates An AI Psychopath Named ‘Norman’ In Order To Study AI ‘Gone Wrong’

MIT Creates An AI Psychopath Named ‘Norman’ In Order To Study AI ‘Gone Wrong’

MIT wanted to study what would happen to an AI “gone wrong,” so it created Norman. Norman, named after Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s infamous movie Psycho, was exposed to “the darkest corners of Reddit.” Researchers purposefully made sure that Norman would develop “psychopathic data processing tendencies.” In order to make sure that Norman would […]

6y ago

NASA Rejected Astronaut Mike Massimino Thrice Before Finally Offering Him His Dream Job

NASA Rejected Astronaut Mike Massimino Thrice Before Finally Offering Him His Dream Job

Former astronaut Mike Massimino was rejected thrice by NASA before he achieved his childhood dream and received a selection letter from the American space agency for his dream job in 1996. After years of astronaut training, Massimino flew into space and completed two space missions, first in 2002 and second in 2009. “The most important […]

6y ago

MIT Developed A Thermal Resonator Capable Of Producing Electricity From Air’s Daily Temperature Swings

MIT Developed A Thermal Resonator Capable Of Producing Electricity From Air’s Daily Temperature Swings

Scientists from MIT developed a device known as a thermal resonator that produces electricity from air temperature cycles that occur between day and night or through temperature fluctuations. The researchers have been studying how temperature fluctuations could generate energy for the past few years. The discovery described in the journal Nature Communications suggests the use […]

6y ago

Lamborghini Is Making An EV That Has 4 Motors, Repairs Itself And Does Justice To An Angry V12 Engine

Lamborghini Is Making An EV That Has 4 Motors, Repairs Itself And Does Justice To An Angry V12 Engine

Lamborghini, quite unlike its rival, Ferrari, seems to be more open to change and progress in the automotive world. While the company with the prancing horse has declared time and time again that it will never build a fully electric car due to its lack of character, Lamborghini has taken the opposite route. Just recently, […]

7y ago

Lamborghini Collaborates With MIT Team On A New All-Electric Supercar

Lamborghini Collaborates With MIT Team On A New All-Electric Supercar

Lamborghini is conceptualizing its first all-electric supercar that won’t have batteries. The sports car company is now in partnership with the engineers of MIT to bring the car concept into reality. The electric hypercar concept is called the Terzo Millennio, also referred to as Lamborghini of the Third Millennium. The design of the car is […]

7y ago

New Study Suggests Babies Could Learn Persistence From Adults

New Study Suggests Babies Could Learn Persistence From Adults

Adults who tend to give up easily when doing certain tasks might want to keep trying instead if they happen to have young infants. New research has revealed that babies of a certain age can learn persistence if they see grown-ups having a difficult time completing a task before they succeed. According to a report […]

7y ago

Employee ID Badges, Dubbed ‘Orwellian’ In Nature, Can Track Your Location, Monitor Stress Levels, And Hear Your Conversations

Employee ID Badges, Dubbed ‘Orwellian’ In Nature, Can Track Your Location, Monitor Stress Levels, And Hear Your Conversations

An employee ID badge that can track workers’ movements and listen in to their conversations is in the works to be available for companies to use starting very soon, according to a Washington Post article published on September 7. Critics of the new device are calling it “Orwellian” in nature, meaning it sounds like something […]

8y ago

Edward Snowden Helping Design Anti-Surveillance Smartphone Technology

Edward Snowden Helping Design Anti-Surveillance Smartphone Technology

Edward Snowden is perhaps the most notorious whistleblower in modern American history, exposing the government’s extensive reach with surveillance on domestic citizens and international world leaders. But being in exile in Russia has not kept Snowden from reaching a mass-audience, which he did this week at a conference for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). […]

8y ago

MIT Unveils An Intelligent Way To Get Rid Of Traffic Lights

MIT Unveils An Intelligent Way To Get Rid Of Traffic Lights

MIT is getting ready for the future of intelligent and improved driving by developing intersections which will no longer need traffic lights to conduct the flow of vehicles through cities. Tech Times reports researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are making traffic lights a thing of the past by developing a model in […]

8y ago

Hyperloop: MIT Wins SpaceX Pod Design Competition

Hyperloop: MIT Wins SpaceX Pod Design Competition

The ability to transport has been the biggest element in our country’s ability to prosper. By ship, by train, by car, by plane and now… by Hyperloop. You could be riding the hyperloop by 2018 » https://t.co/sXEXxecUZlhttps://t.co/GNyBbVGD0w — CNBC (@CNBC) January 22, 2016 Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has plans to transform the way […]

8y ago

Toyota Invests $1 Billion In Artificial Intelligence Research And Development

Toyota Invests $1 Billion In Artificial Intelligence Research And Development

Toyota announced that they have added artificial intelligence research and development to the company’s business objectives. On Friday, the Japanese auto manufacturer declared they initiated a five-year, $1 billion research and development effort with its center of operation to be located in the United States. Toyota’s plan will be one of the largest research laboratories […]

9y ago

NASA To Private Mars Missions: You Won’t Build That — Not Without Government Help

NASA To Private Mars Missions: You Won’t Build That — Not Without Government Help

NASA is determined to put human beings on Mars, and the United States government space agency has a message for the private entrepreneurs who have recently boasted that they intend to get to Mars first, through the power of free enterprise. And that message is: not going to happen. Private enterprise will never put a […]

9y ago

Rowan Torrez: Little Boy Receives Touching Postcard From Father Two Years After Death

Rowan Torrez: Little Boy Receives Touching Postcard From Father Two Years After Death

In a heartwarming example of a very special delivery, 9-year-old Rowan Torrez received a postcard in the mail from his father, just a few days before the second anniversary of his father’s death. Rowan was only 7 when his father died from a fatal neurological disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. “It’s a horrible, horrible thing and […]

9y ago

Monsanto Gets Roundhouse Kicked! Chuck Norris Criticizes Inventors of Roundup

Monsanto Gets Roundhouse Kicked! Chuck Norris Criticizes Inventors of Roundup

Over the last couple of years, more people have become aware of Monsanto, the company known for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Agent Orange, and Roundup. Most of this awareness was found through independent studies conducted by universities on their products. Unfortunately for Monsanto, the finds have been negative. As a result, certain parties have taken […]

9y ago

MIT Professor Allegedly Robs Two Banks

MIT Professor Allegedly Robs Two Banks

An ex-Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor is reportedly also a bank robber, but it’s a case of art imitating life, or something along those lines. The NYPD arrested experimental filmmaker Joseph Gibbons, 61, a former lecturer at the prestigious university, for allegedly robbing a Capitol One bank of $1,000 on New Year’s Eve. He also […]

9y ago

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