Digital Currency Savings; Magic Leap Demo; and more [Weekly Business Newsletter]

February 20, 2015 Weekly Business Newsletter

NEWS A Bitcoin-Inspired Digital Currency, Stellar, Will Power Mobile Savings Accounts for Poor Teenage Girls A nonprofit experiments with using digital currency to give poor teenagers their first experience of financial services.

TECHNOLOGY What It’s Like to Try Magic Leap’s Take on Virtual Reality A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery.Availability: 1-3 years

VIEW Did the FAA Kill Drone Delivery, or Was It Already Going Nowhere? Commercial drones faced serious technological obstacles even before federal regulators proposed tight restrictions this week.

VIEW Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending February 21, 2015) Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.

VIEW Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending February 21, 2015) A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.

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