Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...

Dava Newman, the new head of MIT’s Media Lab, wants the lab to take on bigger problems and reach out into the community. If Willy Wonka had microchips, his factory would have been the MIT Media Lab.

From touchscreens to E ink and GPS to Guitar Hero, some of today’s most popular technologies all originated from the same place: the MIT Media Lab. To celebrate its 30th anniversary current and former ...

Back in the 1980's a laboratory of misfits foresaw our future. Touch screens, automated driving instructions, wearable technology and electronic ink were all developed at the Massachusetts Institute ...

A friend and MIT grad wrote to me yesterday, “I don’t know if the Media Lab is redeemable at all.” This in the wake of the bombshell Ronan Farrow piece in the New Yorker, reporting that the Media Lab ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Firelight Media today revealed Fellows for its flagship 18-month mentoring program, the Firelight Documentary Lab. See the list of mentees and their projects below. The new class’ projects ...

The MIT Media Lab moves fast. From shapeshifting displays to technology that could 3-D print Eames chairs and self-lacing McFlys, the Media Lab reinvents the way we think about the future every single ...

Professor Pattie Maes deep insights working with her research team of Joanne Leong, Pat Pataranutaporn, Valdemar Danry are world leading in their translational research on tech-human interaction.

The Synthetic Media Lab at Syracuse University is building tools that will help organizations, including the U.S. military, ...

A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. How exactly did the coronavirus pandemic begin? More than a year after the outbreak ...

Scott Pelley, one of the most experienced and awarded journalists today, has been reporting stories for 60 Minutes since 2004. The 2024-25 season is his 21st on the broadcast. Scott has won half of ...