This Week in Technology Review - Week of August 20

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 August 20 View in the browser View in the browser Business Impact The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction. Popular this week Facebook and Twitter have taken down hundreds of Iranian accounts that attempted to mislead users This company embeds microchips in its employees, and they love it Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them. Nvidia is using AI in chips to make video games even more realistic Google just gave control over data center cooling to an AI In a first, Google is trusting a self-taught algorithm to manage part of its infrastructure. Baseball players want robots to be their umps Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon Spiders sprayed with water containing carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes have produced the toughest fibers ever measured, say materials scientists. The world's biggest plane now has its own high-capacity rockets to launch How to get Google to stop tracking your location for real Investors have staked $70 million on Sila Nano's upgrade for lithium batteries 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