Using Apple Watch; Bitcoin Stalling?; and more [Daily Newsletter]

February 18, 2015 Daily Newsletter

NEWS What’s the Apple Watch Good For? Developers and designers debate whether the Apple Watch will find its purpose.     NEWS Mainstream Use of Bitcoin May Be Plateauing at a Low Level Despite a big increase in the number of merchants accepting Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency doesn’t have much momentum in retail transactions.

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VIEW Not Only the NSA Knows How to Make Unerasable Malware Hacking tools linked to U.S. intelligence that burrow inside hard disk drives could also be made by nongovernment hackers.     NEWS App Creates Your Own Reality TV Channel Broadcasting everything your smartphone sees and hears could be the next trend in social media.       REVIEW Why Electric Cars Don’t Have Better Batteries A promising advance that came to nothing suggests what it will take to make cheap batteries for electric cars.     SEE MORE STORIES »

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