Strengths

As our alumni and friends know better than anyone, the intellectual excellence and bold ingenuity of the people of MIT are the Institute’s greatest strength. While IAP supplied its welcome respite, the first part of the year also offered inspiring reminders of MIT’s ability to make a powerful, positive difference in the world. Here are just two examples. The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative In January, we engaged the MIT community with a day of fascinating panel discussions to launch the MIT Shaping…

Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and executive chairman of Google and its successor company, Alphabet, from 2011 to 2017. America’s infrastructure needs a serious upgrade. That includes the nation’s digital infrastructure — the critical networks underpinning commerce, defense, transport, and public safety. It sustains innovation power — the ability to invent, adapt, and adopt new technologies — integral to our competitiveness and national security in the 21st century. This nation…

In 2021, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue published a report on extremist activity on TikTok. It made for thoroughly depressing reading, spiked with moments of incredulity. Chief among the latter was the apparent popularity of the title track of MGMT’s fourth album, 2018’s Little Dark Age, with neo-Nazis: it was “by far the most popular sound among extremist creators on TikTok”, soundtracking videos about the late American white supremacist George Lincoln Rockwell and “esoteric nazism”. The report’s authors seemed…

JerryRigEverything is back with the Nothing Phone (2) durability test video and there’s a lot to take note of. This device just launched a few hours ago, and it is already going through the testing process. It is good to note that this test has nothing to do with the device’s software but its hardware. Nothing fans and critics would be wondering how solid this device is, and they have their answers already. Would this device survive under the ‘cruel’ hands of the smartphone hitman, or would it squeal in pain? This…

Strange worlds still await The first Remnant: From the Ashes felt like a surprise. Its strange mix of Souls-like framing, Eldritch horrors, and third-person action-shooter made for something a bit different that kept players going back for more. Gunfire Games is trying to do more of the same with Remnant 2, and from what I’ve played, it’s working. If you’ve played the first Remnant, then Remnant 2 will feel very familiar. It’s still a third-person shooter set in strange worlds, inhabited by aggressive horrors. You can…

Manhattan Dist. Atty. Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Trump takes an open-ended approach to the charges that some critics of the unprecedented prosecution see as a weakness. What the detractors have overlooked are the substantial and unanticipated legal and factual strengths in the case Bragg outlined.A key question in advance of Tuesday’s unsealing of the indictment concerned how Bragg would augment the easily proven misdemeanor charges of falsifying business records. Under New York law, those offenses…

Tactics games can be fairly complex thanks to them typically having a higher number of units to manage, level, and outfit. Fire Emblem Engage focuses down more on the combat side of the equation compared to Three Houses, so keeping your team scaling as the game goes on is vital. Instead of just having a linear experience and leveling system like most normal RPGs, Fire Emblem Engage continues the tradition of having a class system, where each unit can level up and change into different classes with different skills,…

via Tri-Star Pictures Perhaps the most single interesting and overlooked thing about Rambo: First Blood Part II is that it was co-written by James Cameron, in what marked the filmmaker’s first screen credit of any kind since his breakthrough sci-fi classic The Terminator. While the architect of no less than three $2 billion box office hits has never been one to shout about his involvement from the rooftops, ignoring its history sums up Sylvester Stallone’s return to a tee. After all, his second outing as the…

At some point in a job interview, you may be asked about your strength and weaknesses and you may notice your heart racing. ‘How do I talk about my weak areas without looking terrible for the job role or speak about my strengths without bragging?’ Yes, it’s a tricky one, not only for freshers but for experienced ones also during interviews. But think of this as an opportunity to outshine your positive qualities and set a growth mindset. Don’t know how? Relax! In this article, we’ll discuss how to answer strengths and…

After No Time to Die, Ana de Armas on learning about herself on set of The Gray Man Ana De Armas Playing a “vibrant independent woman” in Netflix’s latest action blockbuster The Gray Man required a working process, which Ana de Armas says made her aware about her strengths as an actor.Directed by Hollywood’s popular filmmaker duo Joe and Anthony Russo, The Gray Man features De Armas in the role of Agent Dani Miranda, a…