MIT last week launchedthe MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to find out how human intelligence works, in engineering terms, and how a deeper grasp of human intelligence can be applied to building ...

A couple of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students have managed to raise $500,000 in bitcoin for a curious cryptocurrency project. The pair intend to distribute the money to every single ...

Typically when we talk about autonomous taxis, we are talking about vehicles like cars, SUVs, and buses that can cruise the highways without drivers behind the wheel. MIT has been working on an ...

Two students at MIT have raised enough money to hand out $100 in bitcoin to every undergrad at the university — though they admit they don't know what will happen next. Subscribe to read this story ad ...

Ford is working with MIT on a research project that will deploy a new fleet of on-demand electric shuttles that can ferry students from class-to-class both on campus and on city roads at MIT’s ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is leading an ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation ...

It's my favorite in large part because it's my metadata. It comes from my Gmail account. The relationships it maps are, more or less, my life — orange circles for Planet Money, purple for Brooklyn, ...

"Trash Track" project to monitor the journey of trash. MIT hopes to reveal the costs of trash disposal and make people aware of impact of garbage on the environment. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Scientists from MIT have developed a way to create interactive surfaces using airbrushed inks — or in other words, graffiti that actually does stuff. The SprayableTech system lets users create ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. During a tour of the MIT Media Lab on Wednesday ...

Executives have poured billions into artificial intelligence, only to discover that most of those projects never make it past the pilot stage or fail to deliver meaningful returns. A recent wave of ...