Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) opened a new innovation unit today at EPFL’s Innovation Park, further deepening its ties with the School. What do AI-driven…
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Bots can beat humans in online games
Using deductive reasoning, the bot identifies friend or foe to ensure victory over humans in certain online games. MIT researchers have developed a bot…
Researchers propose new rules for Internet fairness
Just weeks after a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers demonstrated that Google's new congestion control algorithm (CCA) gives an unfair advantage to its own traffic, the…
MIT and Lamborghini cooperate for new supercars
MIT-Italy helps build supercharged partnerships on campus and across the globe. “He was here to dream, and I said 'OK, let's dream together,'” recalls…
New approach to understand crystallisation
MSE’s Caroline Gorham and David Laughlin have published a paper that considers a novel framework to understand crystallisation—the process that transforms a liquid or…
Previously unseen phase of matter with ultrafast laser pulses
Using light to generate order in an exotic material. Adding energy to any material, such as by heating it, almost always makes its structure…
THz laser for T-Ray vision and better wireless communication
Within the electromagnetic middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “T-ray vision.” Terahertz waves have frequencies higher…
Super-fast switch for self-driving cars and quantum computers
Switching light beams quickly is important in many technological applications. Researchers at ETH have now developed an “electro-opto-mechanical” switch for light beams that is…
World’s first 1TB industrial-grade microSD card for cloud-managed video surveillance
Micron Technology, Inc., today unveiled the world’s highest-capacity industrial microSD card — Micron i300 1TB3 microSDXC UHS-I — to address the edge storage needs…
Spectra Logic tape library to process and preserve scientific research data
Spectra Logic announced that the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has deployed a Spectra TFinity ExaScale Tape Library in its Scientific Data Centre…