EFF’s Holiday Gift Guide

EFF’s Holiday Gift Guide

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Technology is supercharging the attack on democracy and EFF is fighting back. We’re suing to stop government surveillance. We’re fighting to protect free expression online. And we’re building tools to protect your data privacy. Help support our mission with new gear from EFF’s online store, perfect gifts for the digital rights defender in your life. Take 20% your order today with code BLACKFRI. Thanks for being an EFF supporter! Liquid Core Dice are perfect for tabletop games. The metal […]

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Uncovering new physics in metals manufacturing

Uncovering new physics in metals manufacturing

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For decades, it’s been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter — or that they got erased during manufacturing. However, recent studies have shown that in laboratory settings, these patterns can change a metal’s properties, including its mechanical strength, durability, heat capacity, radiation tolerance, and more. Now, researchers at MIT have found that these chemical patterns also exist in conventionally manufactured metals. The surprising finding revealed a […]

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Thinking with Video: The Next Leap in Multimodal AI Reasoning

Thinking with Video: The Next Leap in Multimodal AI Reasoning

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Author(s): Kaushik Rajan Originally published on Towards AI. How video generation models like Sora-2 are bridging the gap between static images and dynamic understanding I still remember the first time I saw a Vision Language Model (VLM) describe a complex image. It felt like magic. But then I asked it to predict what would happen next in a chaotic street scene, and the magic faded. It struggled. It could see the “now,” but it was blind to the […]

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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe

New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe

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Imagine having a continuum soft robotic arm bend around a bunch of grapes or broccoli, adjusting its grip in real time as it lifts the object. Unlike traditional rigid robots that generally aim to avoid contact with the environment as much as possible and stay far away from humans for safety reasons, this arm senses subtle forces, stretching and flexing in ways that mimic more of the compliance of a human hand. Its every motion is calculated to […]

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Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

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In part 2 of our two-part series on generative artificial intelligence’s environmental impacts, MIT News explores some of the ways experts are working to reduce the technology’s carbon footprint. The energy demands of generative AI are expected to continue increasing dramatically over the next decade. For instance, an April 2025 report from the International Energy Agency predicts that the global electricity demand from data centers, which house the computing infrastructure to train and deploy AI models, will more than double by […]

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