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Facebook, Reddit, And A Midnight Firefight: What The Internet Got Wrong About Watertown

Ben Masten — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:55:04 +0000

Like many people who live in a time zone an hour or so behind the East Coast, I found myself awake late Thursday night, following the terrifying events that unfolded in Boston. I watched and listened as the seemingly isolated, if tragic, shooting of an MIT police officer quickly became linked to a car […]

Physics And Fetch Quests: A Slower Speed Of Light

Benjamin Wilbur — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:02:40 +0000

Free from the MIT Game Lab, the PC game A Slower Speed of Light explores relativistic physics through a smaller and more localized (and familiar) medium: the fetch quest. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7jA8EHi_0′] Using a “[c]ustom-built, open-source relativistic graphics code [that] allows the speed of light in the game to approach the player’s own maximum walking speed,” players […]

World’s Fastest Camera Reaches Ludicrous Speed

M. Gilden — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:09:48 +0000

Researchers at MIT have recently shown off the world’s fastest video camera, clocking in at a whopping trillion frames per second of video recorded. To put this into a bit of perspective, keep in mind that feature films are recorded and played at 24 frames per second. It’s unclear if the nerves between the human […]

MIT Makes Real-Time Hologram, Use Wrong Star Wars Reference

Jeremy Goldstone — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:05:43 +0000

[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LW8wgmfpTE’] As reported at NewScientist, smart-type people at MIT have made a huge leap in the possibility of real-time holograms. The MIT folks use, among other things, a hacked Kinect, proving once again that the Xbox 360’s controllerless controller is wasted on dance games. This is rather amazing technology. It’s extremely early, but it’s […]