A cheaper water desalination device, a wearable ultrasound scanner, and the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet were some of MIT News’ most popular articles. MIT News has released the list of MIT’s…
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New conductive, cotton-based fiber developed for smart textiles
A single strand of fiber developed at Washington State University has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of a polymer, called polyaniline. The newly developed material showed good potential for…
Google unveils Gemini, a MultiModal AI that outperforms GPT-4
Google has unveiled its next-generation AI model named Gemini which is built from the ground up for multimodality — reasoning seamlessly across text, images, video, audio, and code. Gemini is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU…
World Record Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity Doubles to 22.9 Petabits per Second
Researchers from Japan and Netherlands demonstrated a record-breaking data-rate of 22.9 petabits per second using only a single optical fiber, which was more than double our previous world record of 10.66 petabits…
Ingestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
Diagnosing sleep disorders such as sleep apnea usually requires a patient to spend the night in a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero…