This Week in Technology Review - Week of June 11

This Week in Technology Review Everything you need to know about the technology topics you care most about, delivered to your inbox each week. Everything you need to know about the technology topics you care most about, delivered to your inbox each week. Week of June 11 View in the browser View in the browser Business Impact AI could help the construction industry work faster—and keep its workforce accident-free The construction industry, long a technology laggard, is hiring data scientists to boost efficiency. The US government is seriously underestimating how much Americans rely on gig work Undercounting people who rely on "alternative work arrangements" risks marginalizing a key part of the American economy. Popular this week Machine learning predicts World Cup winner Researchers have predicted the outcome after simulating the entire soccer tournament 100,000 times. A giant new retail fulfillment center in China has only four employees China's ambition to power the world's electric cars took a huge leap forward this week CATL's stock has shot up since it raised nearly $1 billion in an IPO to build more lithium-ion battery plants. America's new supercomputer beats China's fastest machine to take title of world's most powerful ZTE may have been saved, but its plight could strengthen China's tech ambitions What Kim Jong-un's stool might reveal, if he would only let us take a peek The world's most powerful supercomputer is tailor made for the AI era The technology used to build America's new Summit machine will also help us make the leap to exascale computing. This is where internet memes come from Two Reddit and 4chan communities are especially good at spreading and "weaponizing" them. You received this newsletter because you subscribed with the email address: contacto1745.send-mail@blogger.com edit preferences      unsubscribe MIT Technology Review One Main Street Cambridge, MA 02142