This Week in Technology Review - Week of November 19

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 November 19 View in the browser View in the browser Business Impact How UPS uses AI to outsmart bad weather The delivery giant's new machine-learning app aims to reroute packages away from snow and other trouble spots in its global network. An electric plane with no moving parts has made its first flight The turbineless design uses electroaerodynamic propulsion to fly and could herald the arrival of quieter, lower-emission aircraft. Blockchain smart contracts are finally good for something in the real world A startup says it has tackled a long-standing problem that has kept smart contracts from responding to actual events. Here's what a manufacturing skills gap of more than 2 million people will look like Unless manufacturers start exploring new strategies, they won't be able to find enough people qualified to work in their specialized factories. Popular this week AI can't just play video games all day if it's ever going to grow up What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart It pretty much runs the world. One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race and make the technology more accessible to the developing world. Is this AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out The definition of artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and the term often gets mangled, so we are here to help. Machine learning, meet quantum computing A quantum version of the building block behind neural networks could be exponentially more powerful. The rare form of machine learning that can spot hackers who have already broken in Darktrace's unsupervised-learning models sound the alarm before intruders can cause serious damage. 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