(CBS) - Imagine the moment as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were descending toward the moon, a few minutes away from landing in the Sea of Tranquility. Civilization's most historic event was within ...

Refashion uses modules—often simple shapes, like rectangles and triangles—to help users lay out garment patterns, allowing designers to create digital pieces that can be reimagined into multiple ...

Free software pioneer and renowned computer scientist Richard Stallman resigned from his post at MIT following recent comments about one of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking victims. He also resigned ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed course-management software that it is giving away free to help institutions create and run distance-education programs. MIT announced the ...

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This comes after growing calls for his removal, most recently tied to Stallman's statements in an MIT email thread about Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, and what he called the "injustice" of claiming ...

Sajith Wickramasekara started biotech R&D software company Benchling in his MIT dorm room. Now it's worth $850 million. Sajith Wickramasekara started working on an idea for a cloud-based Crispr design ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

As part of an initiative to expand its online course offerings, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to release as open source the software it will use to manage student online learning, ...

The growing popularity of 3D printing machines and companies like Thingiverse and Shapeways have given previously unimaginable powers to makers, enabling them to create everything from cosplay ...