August 25, 2016

Weekly Computing Newsletter

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Intel is trying to rearchitect the computer—and itself

Will faster data storage and chips with built-in lasers be enough to turn Intel around?

 
 

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China’s bid to dominate the chip industry could come up short

The country is committing $100 billion to becoming a global chip leader, but that won’t be enough.

 
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From the Archives

Communication Breakdown

A pair of experts mulled whether we’d ever get machines to talk, let alone think.

 
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A bug-hunting hacker says he makes $250,000 a year in bounty

He probably does, but you shouldn’t quit your day job.

 
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Intel should be worried—ARM has announced that it will now make chips especially for supercomputers

The chipmaker best known for smartphone processors now has designs on one of Intel’s last areas of chip-making dominance.

 
 

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The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending August 20, 2016)

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

 
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Why Chicago’s predictive policing experiment isn’t working

A new report suggests that a data-driven tool meant to reduce gun violence was ignored by police and, in a few cases, may have been misused.

 
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A machine can tell whether you’re depressed just by looking at your photos on Instagram

Your mental health is reflected in the images you choose to post on social media, say researchers who have trained a machine to spot depression on Instagram.

 
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These net neutrality battles will continue for years to come

Here’s what the FCC under Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will have to sort out.

 
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Internet voting compromises a key aspect of democracy

Maintaining the secrecy of ballots returned via the Internet is “technologically impossible,” according to a new report.

 
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The NSA hack shows it was sitting on a trove of severe computer vulnerabilities, experts say

Analysis of the software tools made available by the Shadow Brokers suggests that they’re the real deal.

 
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