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US Mission to India surpasses goal of 1M non-immigrant visa applications this year. Ambassador Garcetti hands over 1Mth visa to couple heading to US for son's MIT graduation. Mission has expanded staffing, improved facilities & implemented strategies to increase efficiency.

The pace of AI development “is outpacing what solutions we need to put in place to maximize the benefits and limit the risks,” the Israeli Prime Minister warned.

Tackling the UK’s productivity problem will require long-term public investment in quality education aimed at closing the skills gap and boosting equality – a plan the 18th-century economist Adam Smith would certainly have agreed with.

A research team with MIT has unveiled a functional superconducting diode design that enables never-before-seen efficiencies and that's easily manufacturable, opening up the door for more power-efficient electronics.

A new material discovered through research from the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center promises to create the first strain-tunable materials - materials that adjust their electronic properties according to how bended or stretched they are. High impact is expected in the industries of robotics, electronics, and sensors.

New device aims to increase survival rates by monitoring breast tissue and detecting tumors in early stages.

The Celtics star made use of signing his new contract to help shed light on efforts to address systemic racism in the city and hopes to found a new Black Wall Street in Boston, a sign of the depth of his commitment to the community.

Director Jay Scheib’s augmented reality-infused production of Wagner's “Parsifal” premiered in the the theater the composer conceived of in the late 1880s

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