Brain Chill; Crowdsourced Weather App; and more [Weekly Mobile Newsletter]

March 16, 2015 Weekly Mobile Newsletter

FEATURED STORY Coming Soon—Electronic Mood Control A startup called Thync will sell electrodes that you put on your head to improve your mood. The results may vary to a surprising degree.     NEWS Predicting Weather with Help from the Crowd An app called Sunshine taps into users’ smartphone sensors to provide localized weather predictions.

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NEWS Qualcomm’s Next Chip Lets Phones Recognize the World Smartphone apps will be able to perceive objects and perform other intelligent tricks thanks to Qualcomm’s newest mobile chips.       VIEW Apple's Lovely, Potentially Overwhelming Wristwear My admittedly short time trying the Apple Watch makes me wonder if it might be able to do too much.     VIEW Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending March 14, 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 March 14, 2015) Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.     SEE MORE STORIES »

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