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MIT Economist Sounds Alarm On AI Hype: 'A Lot Of Money Is Going To Get Wasted'
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 10:45am | 472Economist Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has voiced his apprehensions regarding the ongoing surge in AI investments. What Happened: Acemoglu expressed his concerns that the current enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is resulting in excessive financial commitments,...
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Bill Ackman Says Will Review 'Work Of All Current MIT Faculty' Including Its President And Board As Celebrity Academic Wife Faces Scrutiny For Plagued Dissertation
Saturday, January 6, 2024 - 2:12am | 744Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has announced that he will now review the "work of all current MIT faculty" after his celebrity wife, Neri Oxman, was accused of plagiarism. What Happened: Ackman made the announcement in a post on X, formerly Twitter, adding that he will include...
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Trump Slams Harvard, Penn And MIT In Latest Campaign Promise: 'They Will Pay Us Billions And Billions Of Dollars For The Terror They Have Unleashed'
Sunday, December 17, 2023 - 12:20pm | 419On Saturday, former President Donald Trump announced a controversial campaign pledge during a rally in Durham, N.H. What Happened: Trump said he intends to eliminate tax breaks for universities he considers leaning toward the left. Speaking to supporters in New Hampshire, Trump...
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MIT Has Coupang, Snowflake, Robinhood Among Holdings — How It Adjusted Bets In Q3
Friday, November 4, 2022 - 10:23am | 395The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made two changes in its holdings during the third quarter of this year that includes the purchase of Procept Biorobotics Corp (NASDAQ: PRCT) — a surgical robotics company focused on advancing patient care. According to its 13F filings, MIT...
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Quest Gets FDA Emergency Approval For New Lab Method To Improve Coronavirus Testing Capacity, Speed
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 10:07pm | 419Quest Diagnostics Inc (NYSE: DGX) announced Wednesday it had received an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a new laboratory technique that can help signficantly expand and speed up novel coronavirus (COVID-19) testing. What Happened The...
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The Reviews Are In: Apple Needed To Go Bolder, Better With New Lineup Of iPhones
Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 11:05am | 998After all the hype and pomp-filled presentations, the tech community is taking a sobering second look at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s new smartphones, and the reviews are pretty mixed for the ballyhooed phone of the future. The blowback from hands-on techno sages suggests that Apple didn...
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5 Companies That Just Might Object To 3D Printed Food
Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 1:21pm | 7063D printed food hasn’t exactly gone mainstream yet, but opponents may already be lining up. With everyone from the U.S. Army to nursing homes in Germany experimenting with the use of specialized 3D printing technology to “print” realistic-looking food, it’s only a...
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3 Reasons Women Receive Less Venture Capital
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 1:35pm | 665The startup community is a man's world. At least, in terms of funding, it is. A recent study from professors at Harvard and MIT found that men are much more likely to receive venture capital than women. The startup community is only 17 percent female, according to an infographic from Bright...
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25 Year-Evolution Of Startups With Brad Feld
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 11:56am | 596Google. Microsoft. Facebook. All mega-companies with humble beginnings. Successful startups are pretty common nowadays. But this has hardly always been the case. Entrepreneur, author, blogger and venture capitalist Brad Feld has been funding technology startups since the early 1990s. He sat down...
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Did Google Acquire Boston Dynamics To Manufacture Killer Robots?
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 11:44am | 631Conspiracy theorists sharpen your pencils. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just acquired Boston Dynamics, a robotics company with a $10.8 million US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract. Does this mean Google is about to start supplying the U.S. military with “killer robots...
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A123 Systems – Can the Company Survive?
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 8:18am | 3648The recent struggles of A123 Systems (NASDAQ: AONE) has investors and market participants asking a very important, and very valid question – Can the company survive? Analysts and accountants at Benzinga have done a thorough, in depth analysis of the company's balance sheet and past performance,...
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Can A123 Systems Return to Greatness, Making You Some $$ in the Process?
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 2:37pm | 910Before yesterday, A123 Systems (NASDAQ: AONE) appeared as though it was fated to end up in the vast tech stock junk pile. After all, since its IPO in September 2009, the stock had gone from a high of $28.20 (September 5th, 2009) to its recent all time low of $2.99 (August 8th, 2011). From its...
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The Future is Now: From the Landfill to Your Gas Tank (WM)
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 12:50pm | 637When people discuss alternative energy, the same possible solutions are constantly discussed - wind, solar, corn-based ethanol, hybrids, natural gas, etc. One viable option that does not receive nearly as much mainstream attention is the process of converting garbage and other kinds of trash into...