Over the past week, I’ve spent a large chunk of my computing life wearing Apple’s new Vision Pro headset. Entering the brave new world of “spatial computing” has been a fascinating experience, and I ...

Engineers often state that constraints foster creativity, and the adage “necessity is the mother of invention” was never more true than after COVID-19 hit. MIT’s healthcare hackathon program, ...

It seems counterintuitive for those who proudly wear the "hacker" label to seek ways to work with established industry players rather than being disruptive in a healthcare sector badly in need of ...

A group of Stanford, MIT, Harvard and Brown students have proposed using a machine learning chatbot to decongest COVID-19 self-reporting hotlines in Peru, an idea developed as a part of an MIT ...

Virtual reality and augmented reality technology not only aid in people’s day-to-day routines, but they also infiltrate human vision, immersing mankind into a new technological reality that seemed ...

For new mothers, breast pumps can suck—literally and figuratively. But MIT is going to lead the charge to change this. On Sept. 20-21, MIT Media Lab will host the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck ...

While the XR industry’s major hubs are concentrated on the West Coast of the US, the MIT Reality Hack hackathon has become a focal point for XR developers and entrepreneurs on the East Coast of the US ...

During this year's Independent Activities Period (IAP), students, researchers, and collaborators across seven time zones came together to tackle ...