Reprogrammable Chips; Physical Feedback; and more [Daily Newsletter]

February 24, 2015 Daily Newsletter

NEWS Chips with Flexible Circuits Could Make the Cloud More Powerful and Smartphones Longer-Lasting Software upgrades that can change the circuitry of the silicon chips inside computing devices could make them more powerful.       VIEW Computational Anthropology Reveals How the Most Important People in History Vary by Culture Data mining Wikipedia people reveals some surprising differences in the way eastern and western cultures identify important figures in history, say computational anthropologists.     NEWS New Haptics That Can Trick Your Sense of Touch Could Be Crucial to Smartwatches and Virtual Reality Touch feedback that’s more nuanced than a simple buzz could make virtual reality more real and cars safer.       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.       REVIEW Are We Smart Enough to Control Artificial Intelligence? A true AI might ruin the world—but that assumes it’s possible at all.     SEE MORE STORIES »

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