from TechCrunch by Devin Coldewey What if there’s a drug that already exists that could treat a disease with no known therapies, but we just haven’t made the connection? Finding that connection by exhaustively analyzing complex biomechanics within the body — with the help of machine learning, naturally — is the ...

from The New Yorker by Jay Cheshes Last month, four recent M.I.T. graduates, engineers with a shared passion for robotics, gathered in a lab at a startup incubator near Boston, to show off their pet project. They stood around a hulking console that looked like an old mainframe computer but ...

from The Boston Globe by Kathleen Conti For many millennials, barn weddings are as ubiquitous as avocado toast. The quest to find off-the-beaten-path locations that can be personalized — and won’t break the bank — often brings couples to the doors of rural independent farm owners like Jim and June Wolfe, who ...

from BostInno by Lucia Maffei This weekend, Infinite Cooling, an alum of the MIT “delta v” startup accelerator program, wonnearly $500,000 in cash and prizes at the Houston-based Rice Business Plan Competition, one of the largest student startup competitions in the country. Infinite Cooling was ranked first among the the 42 total competitors. ...

from MIT News by Rob Matheson With novel optoelectronic chips and a new partnership with a top silicon-chip manufacturer, MIT spinout Ayar Labs aims to increase speed and reduce energy consumption in computing, starting with data centers. Backed by years of research at MIT and elsewhere, Ayar has developed chips ...