Reflection-based cameras + language gene + presidential podcast

Professor Lily L. Tsai shares ideas on how to include future generations, who will face the climate crisis we’ve created, in our definition of our collective society.

Cagri Zaman uses immersive media to help people do everything from learning to play piano to learning how to handle heavy machinery.

Faulty versions of the Foxp2 gene disrupt neurons’ ability to form synapses in brain regions involved in speech, a new study shows.

A new study by MIT researchers finds that Twitter bot detection tools can “rely on funky, flawed data sets that replicate mistakes made within one another, rather than trying to accurately identify bots.” Postdoc Zachary Schutzman adds: “We realized that this was a systemic issue in the data sets that are commonly used for bot detection.”

CSAIL researchers have developed SoftZoo, “an open framework platform that simulates a variety of 3D model animals performing specific tasks in multiple environmental settings.” SoftZoo allows designers to “simultaneously optimize their own works’ body and brain instead of relying on multiple expensive, complicated systems.”