A completely subjective list of Institute inventions that have left life easier, less stressful, and even a little more fun.

One of the first such tools, EMACS, turns 50 this year, and it is still widely used.  EMACS first ran on the early video ...

Chinese electronics company Top Victory Investments sued DivX in California federal court on Monday to block its arbitration bid seeking more than $65 million in a license breach fight, asserting the ...

The open-source multimedia world cleared a legal hurdle three decades in the making today: the final patent covering MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual — the codec behind DivX and Xvid — expired on July 19, 2026, ...

The team lead at the 2025 NCAA Division III Championships changed hands on the final Saturday. A race that close could be in the offing again in 2026. Last year’s usual power structure was usurped by ...

SAN DIEGO, January 28, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DivX, a pioneer in digital video technology, announced that DivX and Telechips have resolved their contractual dispute and Telechips has renewed its DivX ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Read a story about dogs, and you may remember it the next time you see one bounding through a park. That’s only possible because you have a unified concept of “dog” that isn’t tied to words or images ...

Researchers at MIT have been working with the South Korean beauty company Amorepacific for the past few years to develop a wearable "electronic skin" platform that can provide real-time insights about ...

On my last day at work a few years back, they gave me a going-away party, and it turned into something more like a roast. One of the top leaders told a story I’d sort of hoped he’d forgotten. The ...

If you’re of a certain age, the name DivX might bring back fond memories of CDs and DVDs with hand-scrawled titles, slow downloads, and the thrill of watching a video that actually played smoothly on ...

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