MIT Technology review (2013-04-24): AI Breakthrough; Patents and Diagnostic Tests; and more by Stucar in MIT, newsletters, technology 0 April 24, 2013 Daily Newsletter Featured Story Is Artificial Intelligence Finally Coming into Its Own? With massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects and translate speech in real time. Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart. News Gene Patents Shake Diagnostics Industry The impending Supreme Court ruling on gene patents is creating uncertainty in the fledging genetic diagnostics sector. Advertisement News How to Clean Up Social News New platforms for fact-checking and reputation scoring aim to better channel social media's power in the wake of a disaster. News A Prediction Tool Helps Close the Deal A former Yahoo search engineer raises funds to bring sophisticated data mining and modeling to the business world. View Apple's R&D Spending Rises, But It's Still Small Change Apple plans to keep inventing new product categories without much of a boost from its cash reserves. View Google Joins PayPal-Backed Effort to Kill the Password The search giant has signed up to a consortium that wants hardware to have a role in authenticating people. View BeagleBone Black: A Maker's Dream? If Arduino is too underpowered and Raspberry Pi doesn't have enough hardware inputs for you, BeagleBone's $45 microcontroller board will let you have your cake and eat it too. View Rendering Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Unusable in Bombs A cheap way to alter ammonium nitrate fertilizer renders it unusable in IEDs. View "12 Hours of Separation" Connect Individuals on Social Networks Social networks can be used to track random individuals in just 12 hours provided the right incentives are on offer, say computer scientists. Video Why Google Is Investing in Deep Learning See More Stories » MIT Technology Review One Main StreetCambridge, MA 02142 Advertisement
