Two students at MIT have raised enough money to hand out $100 in bitcoin to every undergrad at the university — though they admit they don't know what will happen next. The MIT Bitcoin Project is ...

Typically when we talk about autonomous taxis, we are talking about vehicles like cars, SUVs, and buses that can cruise the highways without drivers behind the wheel. MIT has been working on an ...

Interested in sharing what you're browsing with others? Right now, companies have the upper hand in that. They monitor your Web activities and then use that data to serve more of what they think you ...

Ford is working with MIT on a research project that will deploy a new fleet of on-demand electric shuttles that can ferry students from class-to-class both on campus and on city roads at MIT’s ...

It's my favorite in large part because it's my metadata. It comes from my Gmail account. The relationships it maps are, more or less, my life — orange circles for Planet Money, purple for Brooklyn, ...

"Trash Track" project to monitor the journey of trash. MIT hopes to reveal the costs of trash disposal and make people aware of impact of garbage on the environment. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

As it stands, you can spice up your selfies with Instagram filters and other edits before beaming to the interwebs. But what about making a truly compelling smartphone self-portrait? Well, a team of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Through the project, overseen by M.I.T.’s Senseable City Laboratory, 3,000 common ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented a project at the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics involving an autonomous drone fleet system that ...

MIT’s Caleb Harper inside a shipping container containing plants that are part of his "OpenAg" research initiative at MIT. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) "Open Agriculture," a research project run out of MIT's ...