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The Boston Globe

"This week, when 150 artists, scientists, and engineers gather at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for an international conference devoted to holograms, they will not be discussing history; they will be talking about the cutting edge of a technology that is once again stirring excitement."
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The Boston Globe

"Mergers and acquisitions of life science companies that find their way into this space normally involve some combination of famous executives, billions of dollars, or the commercial fate of a medical miracle. This one is different."
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The Huffington Post

"The technology, which emerged from founder Nadav Aharony's (@nadavaha) project at MIT Media Lab, proposes to create a software development kit for apps that would allow individuals to explore data about their lives, by tracking their activity through the multiple sensors now present on most Android smartphones."
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Bloomberg Businessweek

"Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson met with Federal Reserve staff members today and said he doesn’t believe the central bank will heed his call to remove JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon from the New York Fed board of directors."
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The New York Times

"Arguing against immigration policies that force foreign-born innovators to leave the United States, a new study to be released on Tuesday shows that immigrants played a role in more than three out of four patents at the nation’s top research universities."
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Forbes

"For all our graduates, I encourage choosing paths requiring challenge and growth, to fail perhaps, but to learn about successful innovation, to learn about leading people, and to build resiliency, adaptability and confidence, for a lifetime of managerial leadership." -MIT Sloan's David Schmittlein
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The Boston Globe

"But a resurgence of interest in lunar science, led in part by local scientists, is chipping away at seemingly settled theories and raising new questions about our closest neighbor: how much water is up there, for example, and did the Earth once have two moons?"
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The Wall Street Journal

"What they’re hoping to come up with is public toilets that get repeat visitors, thus reducing the practice of going outside, all while generating funds that make them more financially self-sustaining than existing public facilities."
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The Economist

"Better technology has turned cities into fountains of data that confirm known regularities and reveal striking new patterns. This could transform how cities are regarded, built and managed."
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CBS News

"Snowflakes on Mars are smaller than their Earth counterparts, having roughly the same diameter as a human red blood cell, a new study reports."
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Scientific American

"Neuroscientist John Gabrieli of MIT hopes to find ways of using fMRI data to make diagnoses."
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Los Angeles Times

"NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has found that the Shackleton crater at the moon's frigid south pole contains about 22% ice on its surface, astronomers reported Thursday in the journal Nature."
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Bloomberg

"Experimental solar cells made with two types of pure carbon absorb infrared sunlight that traditional silicon panels ignore and may eventually be used to improve efficiency, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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The New York Times

"'Joi Ito and Brian McAndrews bring deep digital experience to the board of the Times Company, which will be invaluable as we continue our digital transformation,' Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman and chief executive of The New York Times Company, said in a statement."
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PBS

"The MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference has just wrapped up in Cambridge, Mass., and Michael Maness, who leads Knight's Journalism and Media Innovation program, gave a closing presentation that highlighted key quotes and ideas that grabbed people's attention over the duration of the event."
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