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New MIT initiative seeks to transform rare brain disorders research
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New MIT initiative seeks to transform rare brain disorders research More than 300 million people worldwide are living with rare disorders — many of which have a genetic cause and affect the brain and nervous system — yet the vast majority of these conditions lack an approved therapy. Because each ...
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Cyber attack contingency plans should be put on paper, firms told Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.
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Vodafone says outage affecting thousands of customers resolved Vodafone said its Monday outage, which knocked broadband and mobile data users offline for several hours, was caused by a "non-malicious software issue".
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Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth”
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Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth” Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of “proto Earth,” which formed about 4.5 billion years ago, before a colossal collision irreversibly altered the primitive planet’s composition and produced the Earth as we know today. Their findings, ...
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Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip firm The move, which is aimed to protect supplies of technology, could raise tensions between the EU and China.
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Science, technology, innovation, digital transformation – key drivers of national development - Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus) Science, technology, innovation, digital transformation – key drivers of national development  Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)
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A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down
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A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down For decades, synthetic biologists have been developing gene circuits that can be transferred into cells for applications such as reprogramming a stem cell into a neuron or generating a protein that could help treat a disease such as fragile X ...
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Windows 10 users urged to prepare for Microsoft pulling support Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10, which could make users vulnerable - here's how to get Windows 11.
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How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper The maker of Japan's most popular beer, Super Dry, was hit by a major cyber-attack last month.
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BBC News
'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.
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MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2025
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MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2025 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investment Management Company (MITIMCo) announced today that MIT’s unitized pool of endowment and other MIT funds generated an investment return of 14.8 percent during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, as measured using valuations ...
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BBC News
OpenAI video app Sora hits 1 million downloads faster than ChatGPT The popular AI tool generates ten second long realistic-looking videos from simple text prompts.
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Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress
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Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress Innovator, futurist, and author Ray Kurzweil ’70 emphasized his optimism about artificial intelligence, and technological progress generally, in a lecture on Wednesday while accepting MIT’s Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS).Kurzweil offered ...
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Gene-Wei Li named associate head of the Department of Biology
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Gene-Wei Li named associate head of the Department of Biology Associate Professor Gene-Wei Li has accepted the position of associate head of the MIT Department of Biology, starting in the 2025-26 academic year. Li, who has been a member of the department since 2015, brings a history of departmental leadership, service, ...
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Immune-informed brain aging research offers new treatment possibilities, speakers say
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Immune-informed brain aging research offers new treatment possibilities, speakers say Understanding how interactions between the central nervous system and the immune system contribute to problems of aging, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, arthritis, and more, can generate new leads for therapeutic development, speakers said at MIT’s symposium “The Neuro-Immune Axis ...
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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of...
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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of... The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) recently celebrated the launch of the MIT–MBZUAI Collaborative Research Program, a new effort to strengthen the building blocks of artificial intelligence and accelerate its ...
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Riccardo Comin, two MIT alumni named 2025 Moore Experimental Physics Investigators
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Riccardo Comin, two MIT alumni named 2025 Moore Experimental Physics Investigators MIT associate professor of physics Riccardo Comin has been selected as 2025 Experimental Physics Investigator by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Two MIT physics alumni — Gyu-Boong Jo PhD ’10 of Rice University, and Ben Jones PhD ’15 of the University of ...
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How to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ammonia production
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How to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ammonia production Ammonia is one of the most widely produced chemicals in the world, used mostly as fertilizer, but also for the production of some plastics, textiles, and other applications. Its production, through processes that require high heat and pressure, accounts for ...
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