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NASA announced on Friday that the The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be one of two mission scheduled for launch in 2017. TESS will use an array of six telescopes to perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting...
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This is the last week to get the special early bird price on registration for the MIT Sustainability Summit! April 27, 2013 will kick off the 5th Annual MIT Sustainability Summit, for the first time ever, the...
Read more You might have more in common with a sparrow than you think, according to researchers at MIT.A study conducted by linguistics and biology researchers at the school suggests that human speech might be result of mimicking the patterns and...
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The threat of an MIT gunman turned out to be a hoax on Saturday morning (Feb. 23). The hoax at MIT involved Cambridge police receiving a report at around 7:30 a.m. According to the report, they dispatched all...
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The Associated Press reported early on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston is on lockdown. Reports are out saying that a man carrying a long rifle and wearing body armor had...
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A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up at the security checkpoint of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. The bomber detonated when passing through the X-Ray machine at the Embassy entrance, killing two security guards and wounding a...
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Loosely knit hacktivist group Anonymous started a new campaign on Friday called "Operation Last Resort." The group hacked into and took over of the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) website on Jan. 25; the site remained offline as...
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During a TEDTalkxBeaconStreet, Mitch Resnick discussed how everyone should open up to a different dialog and learn how to do simple program. The director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab has created a web site called...
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"Why are you destroying my son?"These words have haunted me for the last 20 hours since they were spoken (as are all the quotes in this article) by Aaron Swartz's father, Robert Swartz, yesterday morning...
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The funeral service for Internet inventor Aaron Swartz took place at 10 a.m. today the North Suburban Lubavitch Chabad Central Avenue Synagogue in Highland Park, Ill. An overflowing crowd of more than 400 friends and relatives filled the large...
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