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MIT Drone Autonomously Avoids Obstacles at 30mph

A PhD student created a drone that can autonomously avoid obstacles while whipping through the sky at 30 mph.

By Angela Moscaritolo
MIT Drone

MIT 3D Printer Prints Up to 10 Materials at Once

The MultiFab 3D printer prints up to 10 different materials at once, saving users time, energy, and money.

By Stephanie Mlot
3D Printer

VIDEO: Origami Drone Folds Itself, Self-Destructs

Researchers at MIT have created an incredible new drone that folds, walks, swims and dissolves.

By Sam Feinburg
MIT folding robot

This Terrifying Robot Cheetah Can Now Jump Over Things

This is the first four-legged robot to autonomously detect and clear obstacles in real time.

By Sam Feinburg
MIT Jumping Cheetah

Hands Full? Navigate Using the NailO Thumbnail Trackpad

NailO sticks to your fingernail and essentially brings your smartphone's touch screen to your finger.

By Stephanie Mlot
NailO thumbnail trackpad

Skydio Lands $3M to Make Drones That Won't Crash

Skydio wants to make drones that are safer and less likely to crash because of a lost GPS signal.

By Stephanie Mlot
Skydio logo

Skype's Qik App; Mozilla Humble Bundle; Teens Love Siri, Google Now

From Skype's Snapchat-like app to teens talking to Siri while on the commode, here's what you missed on Tuesday.

By Stephanie Mlot
Skype Qik

Facebook Research Overhaul; $100M Google Lawsuit; Is That iPhone Stolen?

From Facebook's new research rules to Google's possible lawsuit, here's what you missed on Thursday.

By Stephanie Mlot
Facebook logo

Twitter Wants MIT to Make Sense of Your Tweets

Twitter donated $10 million to MIT, which will use tweet data to "identify and act on pressing societal problems."

By Stephanie Mlot
Twitter Logo

Robotic 'Cheetah' Conquers Terrain in Leaps and Bounds

MIT researchers program a feline-inspired robot to take on rough ground with greater ease.

By Damon Poeter
Robot Cheetah/Credit: MIT News

Scratch Review

4.5
Editors' Choice

Scratch makes teaching kids programming as easy as putting together a jigsaw puzzle. The coding elements are presented as blocks that snap together, and it helps teach kids to think like coders.

By Fahmida Y. Rashid
Scratch from MIT

Watch This Origami-Inspired Robot Build Itself and Walk

Researchers from MIT and Harvard have created an origami-inspired robot that can fold itself from a flat, resting state into a functioning, three-dimensional shape to begin crawling across a surface.

By Damon Poeter
Origami Robot/Credit: Harvard

MIT Undergrads Start Semester With $100 in Bitcoin

All 4,528 students will receive their own wad of online currency to invest, spend, or donate.

By Stephanie Mlot
Everything you Need to Know About Bitcoin

Google Eyes Drones; New Mozilla CEO; Netflix on Comcast Speeds Up

Topping tech headlines Monday, Google buys drone maker Titan Aerospace, and Mozilla selects an interim CEO.

By Stephanie Mlot
Titan Aerospace

Ditch Your Bulky Laptop Charger for a Dart

A team of MIT grad students launched a Kickstarter campaign for the "world's smallest, lightest" laptop adapter.

By Stephanie Mlot
Dart laptop adapter

MIT Says Release of Swartz Docs Could Prompt Cyber Attacks

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has moved to stop the full release of documents related to activist Aaron Swartz for fear that they will result in cyber attacks on its systems

By Chloe Albanesius
Aaron Swartz

FIDO Equips Dogs With Google Glass-Like Tech

Wearable technology is barely in its infancy, and already it's gone to the dogs — literally.

By Stephanie Mlot
Google Glass FIDO Dogs

Amar Bose, Founder of Bose Corp., Dead at 83

Amar Bose, former MIT faculty member and founder of the Bose Corporation, died on Friday at the age of 83.

By Stephanie Mlot
Amar Bose

RIP Google Reader; Intel Wearable Tech; No Ads on Controversial Facebook Pages

Topping tech headlines over the weekend, Google Reader joins graveyard of failed projects, while the company reportedly develops an Android-based gaming console, and MIT researchers' Wi-Vi device gives humans X-ray vision.

By Stephanie Mlot
Get Organized: Get the Best Alternative to Google Reader

Family of Aaron Swartz Blames U.S. Attorney's Office in Statement

Swartz committed suicide exactly two years after his arrest for downloading 4.8 million academic articles via MIT.

By David Murphy
Aaron Swartz