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IEEE SpectrumSep 1, 2026AI

Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power…

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MIT NewsSep 1, 2026AI

Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities

The PhD student works to give young people an active role in shaping digital technologies that can support their own well-being.

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arXivSep 1, 2026Quantum preprint

Alphabet-Dependent Bounds for Pure Quantum $(r,\rho)$-Locally Recoverable Codes

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arXivSep 1, 2026Quantum preprint

Quantum synchronization of spin-1 system: Enhanced synchronization due to additive Lindblad operators

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arXivSep 1, 2026Quantum preprint

BAHAMAS: A Control Plane for Optimization and Execution of Variational Quantum Circuits

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MIT NewsAug 31, 2026Quantum

MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

The Institute welcomes its first cohort of QMIT Fellows this fall to advance interdisciplinary quantum research.

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Quanta MagazineAug 31, 2026Science

‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions

Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point. The post ‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves…

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MIT NewsAug 31, 2026AI

How an MIT research project became a global programming language

With millions of users across the world, Julia has been used to conduct cutting-edge research and to design new drugs, jet engines, heat pumps, and…

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IEEE SpectrumAug 28, 2026Robotics

Video Friday: Meet Microduck

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar…

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Quanta MagazineAug 28, 2026Science

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does…

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Quanta MagazineAug 26, 2026Science

In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible

To explore quantum phenomena, we must leave the familiar world and enter the abstract realm of Hilbert space. The post In Hilbert Space, All Things…

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IEEE SpectrumAug 26, 2026AI

New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box

Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other popular large language model with a question like “What is the best film ever made?” and the response…

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