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For days Sam Bankman-Fried, the MIT grad who founded FTX, repeatedly told a jury he couldn't remember actions from his time as CEO

Sam Bankman-Fried Told MIT Friend $8 Billion Hole Meant FTX Wasn’t ‘Bulletproof’

Maximising product and minimising waste with innovative packaging. The European Patent Office announced Inventors from MIT selected as finalists for the European Inventor Award 2023

Abandoned building at MIT Ōtara on fire
A fire has broken out at the Ōtara Manukau Institute of Technology campus. Fire and Emergency New Zealand received multiple calls of a fire in an abandoned teaching block at MIT, according to communications shift manager Colin...

Researchers find new vulnerability in Apple’s M1 chip
MIT CSAIL found that the M1 implementation of Pointer Authentication can be overcome with a hardware attack that the researchers developed.

Auckland Māori architecture lecturer to do PhD at world's top university in US
Papakura born and raised Jacqueline Paul (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) is on her way to the world's top university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) . The 28-year-old...

Are there more wheels or doors in the world? We asked an MIT professor for the answer

MIT spinoff, OPT, ramps up production of its 3D-printed nasal swab

MIT severs ties with Russian school after Ukraine invasion

MIT study finds neurons in epilepsy patients that only respond to singing

MIT researchers create new material as strong as steel and light as plastic

Could humanlike behavior make smart devices more engaging? MIT researchers think so

Fonterra inks blue chip dairy nutrition science deal with MIT heavyweight
Fonterra has signed a deal with a US company that's a world force in biotechnology and nutrition science to turn New Zealand milk probiotics into premium-priced health enhancers.The big dairy cooperative is to collaborate with VitaKey...

MIT robot could help people with limited mobility dress themselves

MIT scientists translated spider webs into music. It could help us talk to them
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music -- creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the arachnids spin their complex creations and even how they communicate.

Live: Dr Ashley Bloomfield says no new Covid-19 cases in the community
Health chief Dr Ashley Bloomfield says there are no new Covid-19 cases in the community today. At MIT, 21 close contacts of Case M are isolating and being tested.

From Boston to Waitoa: Fonterra trials 'world-first' organic battery
Fonterra is trialling an organic polymer industrial-scale battery in partnership with an MIT spin-off that could lead to a sustainable fast electricity charging source for a milk tanker fleet.The long-life battery is made by Massachusetts...

Feds must step in or renewable energy will have nowhere to go, says MIT report

Daily Crunch: Apple’s M1 chips have an 'unpatchable' hardware vulnerability, say MIT researchers

MIT researchers uncover 'unpatchable' flaw in Apple M1 chips

Budget blowout: Wellington Town Hall quake strengthening project to cost $182m
The budget for Wellington's Town Hall earthquake strengthening project has blown out from $145.3m to $182.4mIt's a significant cost escalation in a string of many. Since the Town Hall was declared earthquake-prone and closed in...

MIT used autonomous knitting to create these soft robotic banana fingers

CMU’s Matt Johnson-Roberson and MIT’s Daniela Rus will talk higher-education at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022

MIT's newest computer vision algorithm identifies images down to the pixel

MIT scientists reveal why it's hard to evenly split Oreo filling between two halves

The Morning After: MIT engineers' stroke-surgery robot

MIT engineers built a robot for emergency stroke surgeries

MIT's new simulation reveals crucial insights into the birth of the universe

US drops case against MIT professor accused of ties to China

MIT researchers create AI system that could make robots better at handling objects

MIT's CSAIL self-driving water taxis launched in the Amsterdam canals

MIT will deploy robotic boats in Amsterdam that can carry five passengers

MIT researchers create fabric that can sense and react to its wearer's movement

MIT grapples with early leader's stance on Native Americans

MIT's toolkit lets anyone design their own muscle-sensing wearables

MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated

MIT developed a low-cost prosthetic hand that can help amputees feel again

MIT startup Pickle raises $5.75M for its package-picking robot

MIT researchers use radio waves to help robots find hidden objects

MIT study finds labelling errors in datasets used to test AI

Knife recognised by manager of motel in Azalia Wilson murder trial
A black kitchen knife found at the Oreti River belonged to the unit where the body of Azalia Wilson was found, the manager of the motel says.Bavarian Motel manager Mit Mit Chang gave evidence yesterday at the trial of Samuel Moses...