Google's Quantum Research; Zuckerberg's Internet; and more [Weekly Computing Newsletter]

March 5, 2015 Weekly Computing Newsletter

NEWS Google Researchers Demonstrate Breakthrough Needed for Quantum Computing Researchers from a university and Google demonstrate a crucial error-correction step needed to make quantum computing practical.       NEWS Zuckerberg and Others Discuss Growing the Internet Efforts to expand Internet access via mobile technologies may be stymied by economic and social challenges.       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       NEWS Virtual Creatures Come Alive in a Box A startup uses an old parlor trick and smartphone sensing to let you control virtual objects in a see-through box.     NEWS On Facebook and Elsewhere, App Advertising is Booming App ads account for more than half of Facebook’s mobile revenue—and they show how the ad market is changing.     NEWS An App to Simplify Nights Out An app called Vurb aims to make it easier to search for stuff to do using a smartphone.     VIEW Apple’s Real Car Play The world’s most valuable company doesn’t need to build a car in order to reinvent driving.       VIEW The Emerging Challenge of Augmenting Virtual Worlds With Physical Reality If you want to interact with real world objects while immersed in a virtual reality, how do you do it?     VIEW Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending February 28, 2015) Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.     VIEW EmTech Digital Preview: 10 Breakthrough Technologies Our June event in San Francisco offers access to the people behind our 10 Breakthrough Technologies, including insiders from Magic Leap and Google’s Project Loon.     VIEW Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending February 28, 2015) A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.     VIEW Look Past Net Neutrality: FCC Decision on Community Broadband Is More Meaningful The decision in favor of municipal broadband networks does more than “open Internet” rules ever could to increase competition in a broken market.     SEE MORE STORIES »

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