This Week in Technology Review - Week of February 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 February 18 View in the browser View in the browser Business Impact A "second skin" for fruit and veg could make them last twice as long We throw away a third of all our fruit and vegetables. California-based firm Apeel wants to change that with a natural coating that keeps produce fresher for longer. Popular this week Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built. Lab-grown meat could be worse for the environment than beef Russia is going to ban soldiers from using smartphones and social media on duty Machine learning is contributing to a "reproducibility crisis" within science Watch a harpoon successfully spear a piece of space junk AI is reinventing the way we invent The biggest impact of artificial intelligence will be to help humans make discoveries we couldn't make on our own. Pricing algorithms can learn to collude with each other to raise prices The technology behind OpenAI's fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained The language model can write like a human, but it doesn't have a clue what it's saying. Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to fire bullets into an asteroid 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