Hackaday

Real Robot Makes Debut In Programming Game

Sometimes the right tool for the right job appears almost out of nowhere. That was certainly the case for [Jonathan] who came ...
PBS

Shooter who killed MIT professor and Brown students planned attack for months, DOJ says

BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to ...
Los Angeles Times

How the Brown-MIT shootings unfolded: A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A former Brown University student opened fire in a campus lecture hall on Dec. 13, killing two students and ...
PBS

An MIT professor was shot at home. Authorities say no suspect is in custody

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities near Boston say they have no suspect in custody in the death of an MIT professor shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, died at a local hospital on Tuesday ...
Mercury News

MIT professor fatally shot at home; police seek suspect

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot in his Boston-area home, according to authorities, who said they’re searching for a suspect. The Norfolk District Attorney’s ...
CNN

An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a ...
Science Daily

MIT quantum breakthrough edges toward room-temp superconductors

MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...
GitHub

Pygame wheels for Python on Windows

This repository provides unofficial binary wheels for Pygame for Python on Windows. The files are unofficial (meaning: informal, unrecognized, personal, unsupported, no warranty, no liability, ...
Reason

First Circuit Rejects Harassment Claim Based on MIT Anti-Israel Protests: "[W]e Do Not Construe Title VI as Requiring a University to Quash Protected Speech"

A necessarily oversimplified excerpt from the >12K-word Stand with Us Center for Legal Justice v. MIT, decided by First Circuit Judge William Kayatta, joined by Judge Gustavo Gelpi and District Judge ...
Newsweek

MIT Defies Trump’s Federal Funding Deal: ‘Cannot Support’

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first university to turn down a proposed deal offering favorable access to federal funding in return for the backing of the the Donald Trump ...
The Hill

MIT rejects Trump compact

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would have required sweeping changes ...