At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs dangerous software bugs by automatically importing functionality from other, more…
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Boston-based startup, founded by an MIT alumnus, will commercially release its throwable tactical camera
Unseen areas are troublesome for police and first responders: Rooms can harbor dangerous gunmen, while collapsed buildings can conceal survivors. Now Bounce Imaging, founded by an MIT alumnus, is giving officers and…
Researchers develop a new means of killing harmful bacteria
The global rise in antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, damaging the ability to fight deadly infections such as tuberculosis. The efforts to develop new antibiotics are not keeping…
MIT researcher’s printable origami robot fold itself up and complete tasks
At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, MIT researchers presented a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and measures about a centimeter…
MIT’s new algorithm for removing reflections from photos taken through windows
It’s hard to take a photo through a window without picking up reflections of the objects behind you. To solve that problem, professional photographers sometimes wrap their camera lenses in dark cloths…