Category: Tech News

• People in Virtual Reality Are About to Look a Lot More Realistic
  8i is trying to bring real people into virtual reality for more immersive experiences, from films to yoga classes.

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• How Apple Could Fed-Proof Its Software Update System
  The FBI’s demands on Apple have got security experts thinking about how to make it harder for the government to secretly coerce software companies.
• A Robotic Home That Knows When You’re Hungover
  A company is developing apartment buildings with sensors, automated appliances, and the ability to learn an owner’s habits.

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• A Bitcoin-Style Currency for Central Banks
  The Bank of England asked researchers to invent a digital currency with a more centralized design.

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• The Artificially Intelligent Doctor Will Hear You Now
  U.K.-based startup Babylon will launch an app later this year that will listen to your symptoms and provide medical advice. Will it help or hinder the health-care system?

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• How WeChat Is Extending China’s School Days Well into the Night
  New homework assignments at 7 p.m., corrections due by midnight: how teachers, parents, and students in some schools in China are using WeChat to perpetuate round-the-clock pressure.

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• Daredevil Drone Flies through the Trees Like an Ace
  Startup Skydio has developed a more sophisticated autopilot for drones. Beyond obstacle avoidance, it lets an aircraft orient itself and navigate through busy areas.

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• In Apple vs. the FBI, There Is No Technical Middle Ground
  Either you let law enforcement get into encrypted devices and run the risk of letting others find a similar way in, or you don’t.

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• Apple’s “Code = Speech” Mistake
  A law professor who backs Apple in its case against the FBI says it would be dangerous for the company to win on First Amendment grounds.
• Flexible Glass Could Bring Back the Flip Phone
  Schott can make a sheet of glass thinner than your hair and half a kilometer long that bends, but doesn’t yet fold.

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• Bacteria-Laden Mosquitoes May Be the Cheapest Way to Stop Dengue and Zika
  Some Latin American cities could soon begin releasing millions of mosquitoes developed with funding from Bill Gates.

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• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016
  Rockets that land. T Cells that crush cancer. A gigafactory for solar power. See our picks for the technologies solving big problems in 2016.

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