December 18, 2014

Weekly Computing Newsletter

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Meet the Dogged Researchers Who Try to Unmask Haters Online

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

 
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Review

MOOCs Aren’t Revolutionizing College, but They’re Not a Failure

Online courses may not be changing colleges as their boosters claimed they would, but they can prove valuable in surprising ways.

 

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News

A Virtual Social Assistant to Help You Maintain Relationships

A prototype app called Contax analyzes communication patterns to figure out who matters to you most.

 
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Body-Worn Police Cameras Could Reveal Better Policing Techniques

UCLA scholars will analyze raw video and audio feeds to glean insights into effective policing.

 
 

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Tracking Breathing with Smartphones

Researchers say they’ve come up with an accurate, simple way to monitor breathing while you sleep, no wearables required.

 
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Why Neural Networks Look Set to Thrash the Best Human Go Players for the First Time

One of the last bastions of human mastery over computers is about to fall to the relentless onslaught of machine learning algorithms.

 
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RoboBrain: The World's First Knowledge Engine For Robots

If you have a question, you can ask Google or Bing or any number of online databases. Now robots have their own knowledge database

 
 

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People Want Safe Communications, Not Usable Cryptography

For encryption to be widely used, it must be built into attractive, easy-to-use apps like those people already rely on.

 
 

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Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending December 13, 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 December 13, 2014)

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

 
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