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Sending entangled photons to opposite sides of the planet will require a small fleet of orbiting satellites, say physicists.
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Sending entangled photons to opposite sides of the planet will require a small fleet of orbiting satellites, say physicists.
THURSDAY 30. OCTOBER 2014
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.Two Years After Hurricane Sandy, a Reminder of What Utilities Faced as the Storm ApproachedA look at why the storm’s devastation was so hard to predict, and for utilities to prepare for. —Kevin Bullis, senior editor,...
A weird device uses 3-D sensors and a projector to reimagine how computers and humans interface with the physical world.HP did something strange in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City yesterday. It began by splashing blue strobe lights and repeating the word “awesome” enough times to suggest that it might have doubts about the merit of what it planned to unveil. It then introduced the...
Malware might use a voice synthesizer to bypass some security controllers, researchers say.Voice-control features designed to make PCs and smartphones easier to use, especially for people with disabilities, may also provide ways for hackers to bypass security protections and access the data stored on those devices.
A startup that might have a record-breaking solar cell is in danger of going out of business.The power unit is a rectangular slab about the size of a movie theater screen. It’s mounted on a thick steel post, and equipped with a tracking mechanism that continuously points it at the sun. The slab is made of over 100,000 small lenses and an equal number of even smaller solar cells, each the size of...
WEDNESDAY 29. OCTOBER 2014
DeepMind has built a neural network that can access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine. The result is a computer that mimics the short-term memory of the human brain.
DeepMind has built a neural network that can access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine. The result is a computer that mimics the short-term memory of the human brain.
A former head of Google Wallet rolls out a “smart” terminal for all kinds of payments.Last year, Osama Bedier—then the head of Google Wallet—decided he was on the wrong side of the payments business.
TUESDAY 28. OCTOBER 2014
Carbon emissions have been trending downward, but not quickly enough to offset fluctuations in weather patterns.A colder winter was one of the main reasons carbon dioxide emissions from energy use rose in the United States by 2.5 percent in 2013, according to new data from the Energy Information Agency. Besides a small rise in the price of natural gas and slightly cheaper coal, the weather played...
A new feature of most browsers will let them issue alerts through a PC or mobile operating system.What some call the smartphone era might better be termed the notification era.
MONDAY 27. OCTOBER 2014
As industrial robots become more capable, they could start helping out around the home.Youngsters aren’t the only ones who get the latest high-tech gadgets. Sometime in the next decade or two, homebound retirees could be early adopters of an important new technology: the home-help robot.
As industrial robots become more capable, they could start helping out around the home.Youngsters aren’t the only ones who get the latest high-tech gadgets. Sometime in the next decade or two, homebound retirees could be early adopters of an important new technology: the home-help robot.
SUNDAY 26. OCTOBER 2014
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server.Silent Flocks
Ferroelectric materials could take computing beyond digital logic.After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives. One option involves a new way of manipulating the properties of a material that the computer industry already uses. If it works, it would lead to computer processors that are not only more...
SATURDAY 25. OCTOBER 2014
SpaceX is building an ocean-based landing pad so that it can reuse its launch vehicles.Elon Musk says that next year SpaceX should demonstrate the ability to reuse one of the company’s launch vehicles, something that could reduce the cost of getting to space by a factor of about 10.
FRIDAY 24. OCTOBER 2014
The best way to build a global quantum internet will use containerships to carry qubits across the oceans, say physicists.
Scientists say they can embed sophisticated genetic tests onto a piece of paper.Could complex genetic experiments one day be as simple to carry out as an over-the-counter pregnancy test?
Roost’s batteries will let smoke alarms send alerts via smartphone, and may bring other battery-powered devices online, too.A startup has come up with a simple way to make smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors more useful: a nine-volt battery with built-in Wi-Fi. The battery can alert you on your smartphone if the alarm goes off or the battery itself is about to die.
Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.
Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.
A novel gripper from an SRI spinoff could enable robots to take on new tasks.The sticky effect seen when you rub a balloon on your hair could be used to help robots pick things up, greatly expanding what machines can do in factories.
With natural-language processing aided by crowdsourced data, Wit.ai aims to make smartphones, wearables, and drones heed your call.It’s not unusual to find yourself talking to an uncoöperative appliance or gadget. Soon, though, it could soon be more common for those devices to actually pay attention.
THURSDAY 23. OCTOBER 2014
Patent and trademark filings reveal the augmented reality technology that convinced Google and others to invest $542 million into Magic Leap.A Florida startup called Magic Leap announced Tuesday that it had received $542 million in funding from major Silicon Valley investors led by Google to develop hardware for a new kind of augmented reality hardware. The secretive startup has yet to publicly...
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.In Conversation: Marc AndreessenThis Q&A with early Web pioneer turned vocal venture capitalist Marc Andreessen gives a sense for his provocative, if sometimes glib, thinking on technology. —Tom Simonite, San Francisco bureau...
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.In Conversation: Marc AndreessenThis Q&A with early Web pioneer turned vocal venture capitalist Marc Andreessen gives a sense for his provocative, if sometimes glib, thinking on technology. —Tom Simonite, San Francisco bureau...