The LiDAR sensor on your iPhone could soon let you see around corners

MIT researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade LiDAR sensors can detect and track objects around corners. The hardware costs under $50, and the code is already publicly available.The Latest ...
Forbes

MIT Media Lab Turns 40

2025 is the 40th anniversary of the MIT Media Lab. In the coming year, people are going to be talking a lot about the lab’s history, all of the people who contributed, and all of the things that went ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

MIT Media Lab’s 4-Year-Old Irish Offshoot Is Running Out of Money and Plans to Close

It’s “Game Over” for Media Lab Europe, the high-profile Irish offshoot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Laboratory. Officials announced on Friday that the Irish lab, which opened ...
Business Wire

HCLTech Joins MIT Media Lab in the US to Collaborate on Next-Gen AI Research

NEW YORK & NOIDA, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HCLTech, a leading global technology company, has joined the MIT Media Lab, a world-renowned research and innovation ecosystem at the Massachusetts Institute ...
CNET

MIT Media Lab names new director, 15 months after Jeffrey Epstein scandal

Previous director Joi Ito resigned in 2019 after it was revealed the school had taken donations from the convicted sex offender. Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to ...
Business Wire

Comcast and MIT Media Lab Bring Live Footage and Never-before Seen 3D Photos From MIT’s Historic Lunar Mission to Viewers Across the Globe

Destination Will Include Live Streams of the Lunar Landing, First-Ever 3D Photos and Videos of the Moon’s Surface, Educational Content, Interviews with Mission Crew, and More PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS ...
The New York Times

MIT Media Lab

A Pritzker Prize winner, he designed notable projects in his native Japan and in the U.S., including 4 World Trade Center and the M.I.T. Media Lab’s new home. By Fred A. Bernstein The artist Ekene ...