MIT alum's startup, Cleana, created a self-lifting, antibacterial toilet seat to improve public restroom hygiene, now in places like Gillette Stadium, and is developing a version for homes.

The Texas Institute for Electronics at UT Austin has been awarded $840 million by DARPA to establish a microelectronics center, enhancing U.S. semiconductor production and defense technology.

A global tech outage has affected Philadelphia, causing travel disruptions at the airport and impacting local government services and transit systems. Crowdstrike software issues are believed to be the cause.

Internet outages in Memphis affect the airport and police; flights grounded while IT departments address the disruptions and software provider CrowdStrike sends a fix.

A defect in a CrowdStrike content update caused a global IT outage, disrupting airport services in Houston and impacting various sectors including healthcare and banking. The issue affected Microsoft 365 apps but was not a cyberattack.

A widespread tech outage affected various services, including airlines and banking, with significant disruptions in Chicago and globally. Microsoft's issues with its 365 services were identified as the cause.

The article describes a widespread Microsoft outage that affected various sectors in Massachusetts, including Boston Logan Airport, MBTA services, hospitals, and businesses, with a focus on the disruptions and responses to the incident.

A global tech failure involving Microsoft and CrowdStrike caused major disruptions to flights, banking, and media, as well as 911 services across several regions.

A global technology outage linked to a Microsoft Windows update is affecting flights, banks, and media, with wide disruptions but not caused by a cyberattack.

MIT is proactively developing strategies against the impact of rising extreme heat due to climate change, involving research, local data collection, and community input to ensure campus resilience.

NASA cancels its moon-bound VIPER rover project due to budget constraints, although the agency seeks alternative ways to achieve the mission's scientific goals.

A Harvard study suggests that Google's search results exhibit "language bias," showing different perspectives on a topic based on the language of the query.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota published a study identifying land use as a key factor in the spread of invasive common tansy across Minnesota, suggesting that disturbed areas promote its colonization.