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FILE - The Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia is flooded Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, in the aftermath of downpours and high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. La Nina, the natural but potent weather event linked to more drought and wildfires in the western United States and more Atlantic hurricanes, is becoming the nation’s unwanted weather guest and meteorologists said the West’s megadrought won’t go away until La Nina does. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Weather’s unwanted guest: Nasty La Nina keeps popping up

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2010, file photo, Eric Steven Lander, head of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, gestures as he delivers a speech during the forum Mexico XXI Century, organized by the Telmex Foundation, in Mexico City. President-elect Joe Biden picked a pioneering geneticist to be his science advisor and elevated the job to his Cabinet. Friday's announcement of Lander won wide praise (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz, File)

Biden picks geneticist as science adviser, puts in Cabinet

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

File - In this Aug. 21, 2014, file photo, William McRaven addresses the Texas Board of Regents, in Austin, Texas. The retired U.S. Navy admiral and former chancellor of the University of Texas system delivered an online address to MIT's graduating class on Friday, May 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

War hero McRaven tells MIT grads they’re the ‘real heroes’

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

iFLYTEK vice president Steven Li speaks during an iFLYTEK news conference before CES International, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

MIT cancels China AI firm contract over human rights concerns

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

After damaging report, W.Va. moves away from voting app

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press

Ledlum’s double-double sends Harvard past MIT 84-27

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FILE - In this April 3, 2017 file photo, students walk past the &quot;Great Dome&quot; atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass. MIT said Media Lab director Joi Ito resigned Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, after reports he had a more extensive fundraising relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein than previously acknowledged. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

MIT scandal highlights thorny ethics of university donations

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures during a roundtable discussion with members of the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, May 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

The Latest: Trudeau touts Canada’s AI potential at MIT

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Iowa teenager’s Etch A Sketch video aids college admission

By MACKENZIE RYAN - Associated Press

Google has been working in concert with Ford, GM and Tesla on driverless cars for years, and some jurisdictions already allow the test models to be driven on their roads. Some observers expect driverless cars in full use within the next five years, despite that some of the models have gotten into accidents. (Associated Press)

Self-driving cars may be the science world’s dream, but premise is flawed

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Towns, Lewis help Harvard top MIT, 73-64 in season opener

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017 photo, co-creator of a fiction-writing 'chatbot,' Massachusetts Institute of Technology postdoctoral associate Pinar Yanardag, of Istanbul, Turkey, sits for a photograph in front of a graphic from the home page of the site called &quot;Shelley.&quot; Named after &quot;Frankenstein&quot; author Mary Shelley, the chatbot has been trained on more than 140,000 horror stories written by amateur writers on a popular online forum. Now Shelley is generating its own stories on Twitter, taking turns with humans in an experiment to find out if artificial intelligence is smart enough to make someone feel scared. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

It lives! This nightmare machine writes bone-chilling tales

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press

IBM and MIT partner on artificial intelligence research

Associated Press

This Oct. 4, 2010, file photo provided by Jupiter Systems, the manufacturer of the display wall processors seen in the photo, shows the Los Angeles Police Department's downtown command center. (AP Photo/Jupiter Systems, Brad Howell)

MIT researchers readying ‘crash-tolerant’ computer system that never loses data

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

A U.S. Navy plane lands at the Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey, on Wednesday. Turkey agreed to allow the U.S.-led coalition to launch airstrikes against Islamic State from the base but now Egypt is accusing Turkey of working with the Islamic State on the Sinai Peninsula, a bitter feud likely complicate the Obama administration's regional plans. (Associated Press)

Turkey-Egypt feud undercuts U.S. hopes for Middle East

By Jacob Wirtschafter and Muhamed Sabry - The Washington Times

Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, is hoping the Supreme Court will rule against the Obama administration in the case over exchanges and subsidies, but the administration is using Mr. Hatch's own words to defend the law, citing an op-ed he wrote about the Affordable Care Act five years ago. (Associated Press)

Orrin Hatch op-ed being used to defend Obamacare in Supreme Court case

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

MIT economist Jonathan Gruber listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, before the House Oversight Committee health care hearing. Congressional Democrats charged Tuesday that Republicans are seizing on a health adviser's self-described &quot;thoughtless&quot; and misleading remarks to attack President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

TOM DeLAY: Jonathan Gruber, Dianne Feinstein and the consequences of deceit

By Tom DeLay

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, June 2, 2014. Carney was asked about the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Afghanistan and a sweeping initiative by the Obama administration to curb pollutants blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jay Carney: Jonathan Gruber ‘speaks from the ivory tower with remarkable hubris’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times