The Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, the developer of opioid OxyContin, donated $60 million to various prestigious universities around the world including Yale, according to a report published this week.
MIT researcher and open source software activist Richard Stallman has resigned over a series of writings in which he defended convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and child pornography. Stallman also resigned from the Free Software Foundation.
The Clarion Project has issued an analysis showing how billions of foreign dollars have been infused into American colleges and universities.
Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow said that the university “regrets” accepting donations from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A report by Slate revealed that the MIT Media Lab, which solicited donations from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, offered an award for students and faculty that engaged in civil disobedience and lawbreaking.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the most respected universities in the world, has recently been outed for covering up its long financial relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, is defending one of its directors for accepting a donation from Jeffrey Epstein, adding that he told the director he should accept the money — despite knowing of Epstein’s previous underage prostitution conviction — because he thought Epstein “repented.”
Cambridge, Massachusetts, the home of MIT, has joined a number of other cities in moving to ban the government and police from using facial recognition technology on its citizens.
Ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft have been betting that self-driving cars will make the companies profitable, but recent research from MIT claims that self-driving car operating costs may be even higher than personal car ownership.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology cut ties with Chinese technology manufacturers Huawei and ZTE this week after the US launched federal investigations into both companies.
The planet is cooling, but this isn’t something the alarmists want you to hear, especially when they’ve got a shiny, expensive, new bridge to sell you with Green New Deal stamped on the side.
E-commerce giant Amazon has defended its facial recognition software from claims of racial and gender bias following a study by MIT.
Social media bots helped failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton more than President Trump during the 2016 presidential election, according to a paper from an MIT associate professor.
U.S. colleges and universities are now under scrutiny in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder for having received hundreds of millions of dollars from the Saudi Arabian government. MIT and George Washington University lead all other schools, receiving more than $75 million each from the Saudis.
MarketWatch published an opinion piece recently titled “Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Tesla Private is a Pipe Dream” which alleges that the Tesla CEO’s plan to take his electric-car company private is extremely unlikely to go ahead.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told graduates to “own” their mistakes during an MIT commencement address which outlined the social media giant’s recent missteps.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology fed some of the internet’s seedier bits to an A.I. and came out with something more than a little creepy.
Schools around the country are formulating policy in anticipation of March 17 student walk-outs for gun control.
“We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us,” former President Barack Obama told an audience at MIT. “There were mistakes. We’d screw up, but there wasn’t anything venal during eight years.”
Reporters and attendees at Friday’s ESPN-sponsored MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) will be banned from reporting on former President Barack Obama’s remarks.
The San Francisco Bay Area, as America’s most liberal metropolitan area is about to be economically carpet bombed by the President Donald Trump’s tax reform.
President Donald Trump announced that Broadcom Limited would move its company headquarters from Singapore back to the United States.
An artificial intelligence bot built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology writes new, short horror stories every hour, according to a report.
The world’s sixth mass extinction apocalypse is due to begin around 2100, claims a professor at MIT.
A new algorithm developed by MIT researchers is probably more emotionally intelligent than you are — on Twitter.
Shiva Ayyadurai, the man who is credited with inventing email among several other life-improving creations such as EchoMail, Systems Health, and CytoSolve, has announced that he is challenging Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for her seat in the 2018 elections.
The evidence for man-made climate change is so flimsy that you might just as well believe in magic, says one of the world’s top physicists.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate died while attempting to climb the university’s 150 foot-high dome.
MIT is using a peculiar twist on the age-old ethics “Trolley Problem” in order to understand the decisions people believe self-driving vehicles should make.
The same MIT professor who called Americans “too stupid” to understand Obamacare has joined fellow professors in signing a letter to protest Stephen K. Bannon and other appointees by President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Is Islamophobia accelerating global warming? That was the actual title of a lecture given earlier this week at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by a professor Ghassan Hage.
With the audacious, crowdsourced “Hyperloop” meeting all its technical design milestones, the company’s CEO just promised the L.A.-to-San Francisco commute time will be 36 minutes–and only cost $30.
Ahmed Mohamed accepted a full scholarship to attend a Qatar school instead of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “Clock Boy” Ahmed chose the reputed home of the Muslim Brotherhood over an institution revered among the world’s finest science and engineering universities. Ahmed is the Texas teen who was arrested and suspended from high school last month after bringing a homemade suitcase clock mistaken for a hoax bomb.
The White House just released a controversial scorecard system for the nation’s colleges, leveraging aggregated tax income data to rank colleges by how much graduates actually earn.
On May 11th, we released a mini-documentary on Breitbart.com chronicling how Suheil Laher, MIT’s Muslim Chaplain for sixteen years, raised money for Al Qaeda affiliates around the world, incited Boston Muslims against Jews and Christians, and called on all Muslims to join in a violent Jihad against non-Muslims. Despite these serious charges, two religious leaders at MIT, a Jew and a Christian, are defending Laher.
Rapper Mike Render, better known by his stage name, Killer Mike, has transcended the usual borders of hip-hop music and culture, and is making a name for himself as an activist, one whose opinions are valued by major news publications and prestigious universities.
US joins Iran and Iraq in fighting ISIS in Tikrit; Saudi Arabia begins airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen; Obama administration continues to hail Yemen as a model
Mars One, a not-for-profit organization based in the Netherlands, announced it has selected 100 candidates to compete for a one-way ticket to Mars, reports People.
Much of the research assistant work performed for Professor Jonathan Gruber’s 2009 $392,600 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop economic models for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) seems to have been conducted by an employee of the NBER.