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Inventor recalls eye imaging breakthrough

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

If you’ve been to an eye doctor and had an image taken of the inside of your eye, chances are good it was done with optical coherence tomog…

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AI at MIT

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

At MIT, AI has become so pervasive that you can almost find your way into it without meaning to. Take Sili Deng, an associate professo…

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Recent books from the MIT community

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared ProsperityEdited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds, professor of the practice of urban studie…

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Get ready for hotter, muggier, stormier summers

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

A long stretch of humid heat followed by a powerful thunderstorm is a familiar weather pattern in the tropics, but it’s also becoming more…

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Research

Analog computing from waste heat

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

Heat generated by electronic devices is usually a problem, but a team led by Giuseppe Romano, a research scientist at MIT’s Institute for S…

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Early life may have breathed oxygen earlier than believed

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on…

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Research

This tool could show how consciousness works

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without ne…

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A natural protein may protect the GI tract from infection

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry profess…

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Construction

The new word in home construction could be “plastics”

MIT Technology Review·Apr 21, 2026

Single-use plastics are a persistent source of environmental pollution, and the need to house a growing global population puts increasing p…

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Canadian who was detained by China warns against Carney’s electric vehicle deal

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 21, 2026

A Canadian who was detained in China for nearly three years warned that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s electric vehicle deal risks creating a…

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AI backlash is coming for elections

The Verge AI·Apr 21, 2026

{"#text":"Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects…

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Weinstein preyed on aspiring US actress, court told in rape retrial

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 21, 2026

Prosecutors in the rape retrial of disgraced US movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told Tuesday how he wielded his power to prey on then-aspiring…

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AI robotics: Moving from the lab to the real-world factory floor

The Robot Report·Apr 21, 2026

Learn the real-world infrastructure and effort required to deploy AI robotics from leaders at Universal Robots, PickNik, and Path Robotics.…

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Israel jails soldiers for vandalising Jesus statue in Lebanon

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 21, 2026

The Israeli military on Tuesday said two soldiers would receive 30 days of military detention and be removed from combat duty over the dest…

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German court rules in favor of Teradyne Robotics, issues injunction against Elite Robots

The Robot Report·Apr 21, 2026

Teradyne has obtained an injunction from a German court as it pursues a claim against Elite Robots for copying its UR cobot software. The p…

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Medical

Rovex and BayCare partner to explore in-hospital transport robots

The Robot Report·Apr 21, 2026

Rovex pilot at Morton Plant Hospital will evaluate how robotics can support patient transport workflows and hospital staff. The post Rovex…

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Report finds that while 500k+ robots were installed last year, partner layer is still hard to map

The Robot Report·Apr 21, 2026

Identifying the leading robotics vendors and regions is straightforward, but mapping integrator partners is not, found Georg Stieler. The p…

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The forces of scarcity hitting Asia may soon spread across the world

Japan Times Technology·Apr 21, 2026

Many countries across the region are experiencing sudden jolts of disruption that they are struggling to manage.

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China flashes new tech swagger to world markets convulsed by war

Japan Times Technology·Apr 21, 2026

The world's factory floor is increasingly getting retrofitted for a new era of artificial intelligence and robotics, churning out technolog…

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Israeli soldier's desecration of crucifix in south Lebanon draws condemnation

Japan Times Technology·Apr 21, 2026

A photo posted by Younis Tirawi, a Palestinian reporter, shows an Israeli soldier taking the blunt side of an axe to a fallen sculpture of…

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Turning point? Clean energy met 100% of world’s new power needs in 2025: report

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 20, 2026

As the US-Israel war on Iran raises global concerns about energy security, a new report has found that the clean power sector is rapidly ga…

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Medical

1 dead, 6 hurt as trolleybus crashes into supermarket in Austria

South China Morning Post Tech·Apr 20, 2026

One person died and six were injured on Monday after a trolleybus veered off the road and crashed into a supermarket in Salzburg, Austria’s…

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The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 20, 2026

When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matarić wanted to work in didn’t exist, she helped create it. In 2005 she helped define the n…

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RBR50 Gala returns in the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo

The Robot Report·Apr 20, 2026

The RBR50 gala at the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo offers a chance to honor and connect with the world’s leading robotics innovators. T…

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