This Week in Technology Review - Week of June 18

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 18 View in the browser View in the browser Business Impact Basic income could work—if you do it Canada-style A Canadian province is giving people a basic income, no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea. From rust belt to robot belt: Turning AI into jobs in the US heartland Artificial intelligence is offering an amazing opportunity to increase prosperity, but whether or not ­we will seize it is our choice. The productivity paradox Popular this week A freshly-funded battery startup aims to ease the cobalt crunch Machine learning predicts World Cup winner Researchers have predicted the outcome after simulating the entire soccer tournament 100,000 times. A machine has figured out Rubik's Cube all by itself Unlike chess moves, changes to a Rubik's Cube are hard to evaluate, which is why deep-learning machines haven't been able to solve the puzzle on their own. Until now. Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to create the US Space Force Tencent and Alibaba's mobile payment war shows how far China is ahead of the US Three years later, Google still has big-time diversity issues It's time to rein in the data barons Facebook, Amazon, and Google will resist attempts to restrain their market power. But for the sake of our collective prosperity and our personal privacy, it's a fight we can't afford to lose. 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