This Week in Technology Review - Week of December 17

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 December 17 View in the browser View in the browser Business Impact How much money would you want to quit Facebook for a year? Most people say $1,000 Despite all the recent scandals, so many of us still stick with Facebook. This study might explain why. Help us pick the young innovators who are changing our world Nominations for our 2019 list of 35 Innovators Under 35 are now open. At least 15 central banks are serious about getting into digital currency Digital cash may soon start replacing the physical kind. New York's new wage law for Uber drivers is a lesson for cities around the world Alex Rosenblat rode along with Uber drivers for 5,000 miles. We talked with her about the huge impact the law could have. Popular this week Facebook gave more than 150 companies special access to your data An autonomous robot swarm has self-organized by acting like natural cells A long-awaited battery that would cut electric-vehicle costs may finally be close 24M is reducing manufacturing costs by stripping out extraneous materials—and just got $22 million to begin building its first commercial factory. These incredibly realistic fake faces show how algorithms can now mess with us A new approach to AI fakery can generate incredibly realistic faces, with whatever characteristics you'd like. A radical new neural network design could overcome big challenges in AI Researchers borrowed equations from calculus to redesign the core machinery of deep learning so it can model continuous processes like changes in health. We finally know how fish swim so fast Physicists have argued for 50 years over which of two theories explains how fish produce thrust. Now a computer simulation has provided the answer. 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