1+ hour, 35+ min ago  (587+ words) If you're competing at the National Spelling Bee and you need to know about a word's roots, Brian Sietsema, Ph D '89, is your guy. The MIT-trained linguist also happens to be a Greek Orthodox priest. Brian Sietsema has a favorite…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1926+ words) A story about saving There we were, a regular murderers" row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (931+ words) The viral short dramas are increasingly being created entirely with AI, with hundreds of new shows spun up each day. In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1266+ words) Adult content creators are having their performances used without consent. This is just one way that AI now threatens their rights and livelihoods. "At first, I thought it was just a different person," says Jennifer, who is being identified by…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (223+ words) Alumni have been celebrating their MIT ties at Tech Night at Pops since 1898at times with "too much enthusiasm to suit the leader of the orchestra." The Music Hall program for the first Tech Night at Pops was printed in MIT's…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (651+ words) A new book by Stewart Brand, an architect of modern tech culture, asks: How do we prioritize maintenance? And why? But it doesn't quite have the answers. Radical how? This volume doesn't say. In an outline for the overall work,…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1314+ words) With the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, the Institute's multidisciplinary approach to music deepens. "It was important to me that we could have classical music happening in one space, world music in another space, jazz somewhere else, and…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (314+ words) MIT Technology Review The only reality show that matters The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is one of the best shows on television right now. Not one of the best reality TV shows, but one of the best TV…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (80+ words) A New England artist makes music from the imperceptible noises of nature'using tools that usually detect hidden nuclear explosions. Artist Brian House's array of "macrophones" picks up distant infrasounds for translation into pulsing music. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST MIT Technology…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1122+ words) Patrick Darling used a music tool from Eleven Labs to perform a song with his former bandmates. There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling's song begins to play. It's a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he…...