July 21, 2016

Weekly Computing Newsletter

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Facebook plans to beam fast Internet to remote areas using lasers

By detecting light in a new way, engineers can easily send data at 2.1 gigabits per second.

 
 

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Best of the Week Physics arXiv

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv.

 
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Machine learning algorithm uses mobile phone records to tell whether you can read or write

A machine learning algorithm has learned to tell whether individuals can read or write by analyzing their mobile phone records.

 
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Sorry human hackers, the government thinks you’re too slow

Seven Pentagon supercomputers are getting ready to attack one another.

 
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The face recognition systems that law enforcement ​agencies​ use are probably biased

The available evidence suggests that face matching systems don’t work equally well for different races.

 
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