October 30, 2014

Weekly Computing Newsletter

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Google Wallet Exec Rebooting the Payment Terminal

A former head of Google Wallet rolls out a “smart” terminal for all kinds of payments.

 
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Websites Will Soon Push App-Style Notifications at You

A new feature of most browsers will let them issue alerts through a PC or mobile operating system.

 

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iRobot and Others Look Ahead to Robotic Elder Care

As industrial robots become more capable, they could start helping out around the home.

 
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Making the Internet of Things Understand Your Voice

With natural-language processing aided by crowdsourced data, Wit.ai aims to make smartphones, wearables, and drones heed your call.

 
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What Magic Leap Is Building with $542 Million from Google and Others

Patent and trademark filings reveal the augmented reality technology that convinced Google and others to invest $542 million into Magic Leap.

 
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In a Boost for Automation, Robot Hand Uses Static to Grab

A novel gripper from an SRI spinoff could enable robots to take on new tasks.

 
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A Wi-Fi-Enabled Battery Lets Smoke Alarms Send Smartphone Alerts

Roost’s batteries will let smoke alarms send alerts via smartphone, and may bring other battery-powered devices online, too.

 
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Google's Secretive DeepMind Start-up Unveils A "Neural Turing Machine"

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.

 
 

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Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending October 25, 2014)

Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.

 
 

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Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending October 25, 2014)

A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.

 
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