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Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/behind-the-scenes-of-thirty-pies/

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, leaving…

Most enterprises assume they would “ride it out” during a major outage. In reality, a modern outage can freeze meetings, break calling, stall customer support, and interrupt revenue flows. That is why a network redundancy strategy is no longer just a network team preference. It is a business continuity decision. Strong business continuity connectivity depends […]

AI is dramatically reshaping how candidates apply for jobs, and HR and recruitment software company Xref is introducing a new platform to manage that growing pressure. “AI is making it easier than ever to generate applications, but harder than ever to verify them,” Lee-Martin Seymour, founder and CEO of Xref, said. “As this shift continues, […]

A new opt-in feature is designed to mine devices for images that can be turned into postable collages and recaps.

The platform will now feature indented responses below posts, as well as a web version that more closely aligns with the app experience.

Dead By Daylight-inspired asymmetric VR sci-fi horror game BlackGate adds a new playable alien character, the Titan.

We were excited for the New York City episode of Apple Vision Pro’s Elevated series, but its overstimulated creative choices leave limited room to connect with the city’s spirit.

Advanced botany and biology research to sustain crews on future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond wrapped up the week aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 74 crew also continued unpacking a U.S. cargo craft while keeping up the maintenance of the orbital outpost.

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason, purpose-built small language models (SLMs) offer a promising path to operationalize AI in…

Earlier this week, Snap announced it was cutting roughly 1,000 jobs (16% of its full-time workforce) and most coverage focused on activist pressure and a short-term stock reaction. But for enterprise XR leaders, the more useful story is operational: an AR-native company is restructuring the way it builds spatial computing products, and it’s doing it […]

This episode focuses on what’s delivering value today, what’s still not landing, and what leaders should focus on next. Marcus is joined by Tom Arbuthnot (Founder, Empowering.Cloud & Microsoft MVP), Mark Nixon (AI Business Solutions Go-To-Market Lead, Microsoft UK & Ireland), and Andreas Welsch (Founder & Chief AI Strategist, Intelligence Briefing). The discussion covers:  What […]

“The best thing you can find online is a reason to go offline,” according to new spots that will run across multiple media channels beginning in May.

Pew Research findings indicate that Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram play a critical role in keeping teens connected with friends, family and the world.

The psychological horror game Evil Inside is coming to Quest 3 headsets and PlayStation VR2 in May.

The International Space Station is orbiting higher today after the Progress 93 resupply ship, docked to the Zvezda service module, fired its engines for just over five minutes Wednesday night. The orbital reboost places the space station at the correct altitude for the upcoming Progress 95 cargo mission scheduled to resupply the Expedition 74 crew at the end of April.