How do I live my best life? I’ll consult a painting, thanks – not my smug ‘AI future self’
Viv Groskop
Really, what can these chatbots developed by researchers at MIT teach us that Tolstoy or Lucian Freud can’t? asks comedian and author Viv Groskop
SpaceWar is back! Rebuilding the world’s first gaming computer
A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966
AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choices
Exclusive: Scientists at MIT hope talking to 60-year-old self will shift thinking on health, money and work
May 2024
Police break up pro-Palestinian campus protests in California and Detroit
Police disband pro-Palestinian student encampments across the US
January 2024
Wife of financier who called for Harvard head’s exit faces plagiarism allegations
After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertation
December 2023
What’s behind the antisemitism furor over college presidents’ testimony?
Backlash against presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT has led to one resignation and implications for free speech on campus
The Harvard and UPenn presidents walked into a trap in Congress
Moustafa Bayoumi
The presidents were asked about non-existent calls for genocide on American campuses, while the potential dangers of genocide in Gaza were ignored
University of Pennsylvania president resigns after furor over free speech and antisemitism
Billionaires and free speech advocates wade into US college antisemitism fray
US university presidents face firestorm over ‘evasive’ answers on antisemitism
November 2023
US university presidents to testify before Congress over claims of antisemitic protests on campuses
Heads of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be questioned
September 2023
The Audio Long Read
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI – podcast
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
July 2023
The long read
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
John Goodenough obituary
March 2023
Fossil fuel companies donated $700m to US universities over 10 years
Funding at 27 universities can shift not just research agendas, but also policy in the direction the industry prefers, report says
September 2022
Saturn’s rings could be remains of moon that strayed too close, say scientists
Theory of inner satellite ripped apart by gas giant’s gravity 100-200m years ago also explains rings’ relative youth
March 2021
'I have picked people up on the street': the secret life of architect Alvar Aalto
He built wild, magical buildings and furniture that is still thrilling today. But a new film suggests the celebrated Finn was also a domineering philanderer deeply indebted to his talented wives
February 2021
Pass notes
Spam’s new frontier? Now even spinach can send emails
Scientists at MIT have taken the leafy greens online – in the hope they will be able to warn about explosives
September 2020
Memphis Grizzlies hire MIT's Sonia Raman as assistant coach
The Memphis Grizzlies announced the hiring of longtime MIT women’s basketball coach Sonia Raman on Friday
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