by Julie Barr from MIT News Four hungry MIT student-athletes were on a mission to find a filling, inexpensive meal and ended up creating the first robotic kitchen. “It was a natural solution to the problem of creating inexpensive, healthy food. We just wanted to figure out how to cook ...

by Patrick Jenkins from Financial Times A former US government counter-terrorism expert and an emerging markets healthcare lawyer are poised to launch a new rating agency for conduct risk, as the world’s banks struggle to avoid doing business with terrorists, drug dealers and other organised criminals. In a twist on ...

by Frederick Daso from Forbes Recent demographic changes in Latin American countries have resulted in more women entering the workforce. As more Latin American households have both parents working, child and eldercare has increased in demand. An MIT MBA  and Andrés Bello National University graduate have created an online platform to help ...

by Tom Relihan from MIT Sloan News PillPack, an online pharmacy that delivers personalized packets of medication to customers at home, will be acquired by retail giant Amazon for “just under $1 billion,” TechCrunch reports. Amazon announced in a press release Thursday morning that the Manchester, New Hampshire-based startup, co-founded by MIT ...

by Karen Weintraub from MIT Technology Review As a female engineering student, Alicia Chong Rodriguez, SM ’18, was used to being one of the few women in any room full of engineers. But three years ago, she was shocked to learn that women are also woefully underrepresented in research on ...

by Macaela MacKenzie from Forbes “Ethical fashion” and “fast fashion” have become antithetical in the $2.5 trillion fashion industry. The latter seemingly has two identities; on one side of the debate, it’s an economic wunderkind, easily outpacing sales growth from traditional fashion brands. At the same time, it's become the poster child ...