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You Can Now Print 3D Holograms On Your Inkjet Printer
Creating the types of 3D holograms that are used to authenticate products or currency usually requires very expensive, very complex printers. That’s what makes them so hard to counterfeit. But a team of researchers from MIT have created a new kind of 3D hologram that can be printed on the inkjet printer you probably already…
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Why Do We Like The Music That We Like?
Some combinations of notes inherently sound better than others, right? It’s why the bread and butter of pop music, which is engineered to be upbeat and danceable, is highly consonant major chords. It’s why unpredictable 12-tone compositions create unease in the listener, and why Stravinsky’s dissonant Rite of Spring sparked a riot when it debuted.
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MIT’s AI Can Predict 85 Per Cent Of Cyberattacks
Knowing a cyberattack’s going to occur before it actually happens is very useful — but it’s tricky to achieve in practice. Now MIT has built an artificial intelligence system that can predict attacks 85 per cent of the time.
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What Science Is Learning From Chocolate Coated Lollies
With research that will make you wish you had studied a little harder in high school science class, engineers at MIT have revealed some delicious-looking experiments.