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Smartphones Can Make You 20% More Fuel Efficient
Research teams from MIT and Princeton have devised a program that you run on a dashboard-mounted smartphone that cuts fuel consumption by 20%. It works by monitoring the timing of traffic lights, and telling you when to slow down so you don’t idle as long and save gas. Additionally: Submitted by: Unknown
Rise of the Machines
MIT released a report in which they observed that a computer got better at playing the video game Civilization by reading the manual. After comprehending the actual language of the written advice meant for human players, the computer’s rate of victory jumped from 46% to 79%. the system was able to reproduce 80 percent of the steps that a human reading the same instructions would execute
I Can’t Cut a Beaver Shape if You Can’t Hold Still
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Incoming graduate students at MIT’s Laser Research Facility are subject to some unique hazing rituals.