by Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron

Dennis Carroll doesn’t mean to sound callous when he says the coronavirus outbreak was predictable. And he doesn’t. He sounds…

Modest improvements in treatment could make a big difference

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) has developed a new type of paint atomizer (airless paint atomizer) that uses static electricity instead of air, to replace the conventional air paint atomizers used in the vehicle body painting process. The newly developed…

Apple will continue to play a role in helping individuals and communities emerge stronger with a new series of responses to COVID-19.

Backpacks have existed for centuries but have evolved over the years to carry more efficiently. Delve into backpack innovation with designer Jayson Yagi...

Startups Umbulizer, OcculAR, and Precavida won awards for their health care innovations at this year’s MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize competition.

The Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a core component of the world-wide
web. Over its evolution it has added
features, including encryption, but time has revealed its limitations and
those of the whole protocol stack. At FOSDEM 2020, Daniel Stenberg…

This blog documents our attempt to construct a ventilator design for use in a Flu Pandemic that can be made from readily available materials at the last minute. Hopefully, the situation never arrives where this device will need to be used for a pandemic.…

Low-cost portable ventilator could be a lifesaver for people in remote locations and for hospitals in the developing world.

WSL 2 will soon be officially available as part of Windows 10, version 2004! As we get ready for general availability, we want to share one additional change: updating how the Linux kernel inside of WSL 2 is installed and serviced on your machine. We’ve heard…

🎬 Now available, the follow up to AlphaGo: The Thinking Game https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ 🎬

The Thinking Game takes you on a journey into the heart of DeepMind, capturing a team striving to unravel the mysteries of intelligence and life itself.

Filmed over…

Folding@home has new projects for the study of coronavirus

As a "fully remote work" company, we had to make some choices about the
technologies we use to work together and stay in touch.

We decided...

I was reading Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective the other day and in the chapter on Unix I/O the authors mention that there is no explicit “EOF character” at the end of a file.

Almost every week I accidentally get into this logging argument. Here’s the problem: people tend to log different things and call it a best-practice. And I a...