Online Personality Detection; The Versatile Blockchain; and more [Weekly Computing Newsletter]

May 14, 2015 Weekly Computing Newsletter     News Startup Crystal Says E-Mail Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs to Be Smarter Startup Crystal claims it can help you write better e-mails by mining recipients’ online data for clues to their personality.       News The Most Valuable Aspect of Bitcoin: Its Versatile Ledger Technology Bitcoin doesn’t have to replace government-backed money to improve the way we do business online.     Advertisement Advance your IT career — learn online or part-time at our Chicago campus. Northwestern University MS in Information Systems teaches the latest in information systems, emphasizing design, implementation and evaluation of software applications and theoretical models. Students choose one of seven specializations to complement professional experience and interests. Advance your IT career — learn online or part-time at our Chicago campus. Continue »       News Some Model S Enthusiasts Write Code for the Cars A few Tesla drivers are rewriting the programming in the Model S to make the car do interesting new things.       News How Dropbox Plans to Compete with Microsoft, Google, and IBM: Simplicity Dropbox, the provider of online data storage, is adding productivity features as it wades into the corporate market dominated by Microsoft and Google.       News Chinese Search Company Baidu Built a Giant Artificial-Intelligence Supercomputer A supercomputer specialized for the machine-learning technique known as deep learning could help software understand us better.     News Verizon’s Ambitious Ad Play with AOL Faces Headwinds Verizon’s proposed acquisition of AOL looks promising on paper, but the devil is in the details.       News Virtual Reality Lets Robots Work Out Their Kinks A highly realistic simulated world is proving vital to robotics researchers.     News Does Facebook Filter Its Own Research? Social scientists would like Facebook to be more open about its goals and guidelines for research on user behavior.     News Facebook Study: Users, More Than Algorithms, Choose What News to See A Facebook study of 10 million users shows that your selection of friends holds more sway than filtering algorithms when it comes to seeing news from opposing political viewpoints.     View The Machine Vision Algorithm Beating Art Historians at Their Own Game Classifying a painting by artist and style is tricky for humans; spotting the links between different artists and styles is harder still. So it should be impossible for machines, right?     View Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending May 9, 2015) A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.     View Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending May 9, 2015) Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.     See More Stories »   If you would like to update the frequency or type of newsletters received, please edit your newsletter preferences or unsubscribe from all MIT Technology Review communications. MIT Technology Review One Main Street Cambridge, MA 02142 Advertisement

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