Saturday, February 22, 2014

Recommended from the Web (week ending February 21, 2014)

An overview of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff of the MIT Technology Review.

Aerial Crop disease resistance with cloned genes
Why GM blight-resistant potatoes could be significant.
-David Rotman, editor in Chief

Auto-emissions policy of California hit a pothole of Tesla
A look at the "quagmire of expensive and unwanted consequences" arising from regulations on automobile emissions.
-Kevin Bullis, Editor, energy

Slideshow: Power hungry
Some great pics showing the impact of energy projects.
-Kevin Bullis

Are the new lists trivia game? Latest viral success of what BuzzFeed meant for publication.
The Nieman Journalism Lab goes behind the scenes of BuzzFeed to learn the motivation behind the focus of the site on the quizzes. It's sharing.
-Mike Orcutt, research editor

Road silk pirate 2.0 with more than £1. 6 m, with a value of Bitcoin 'stolen '.
Order a! Find companies in the food sector an appetite for Bitcoin
I can't help but be completely spellbound yet totally freaked out by Bitcoins...
-J. Juniper Friedman, Editorial Assistant

'Candy Crush' is bigger than Twitter, but probably not for long
"Candy Crush, which launched less than two years, generated more than 450 million $ in revenues in the quarter to December, nearly twice the income that Twitter 8 years generated during the same period. ''
-Kyanna Sutton, senior Web producer

Wireless system could offer a private fast lane
A wireless technology sounding intriguing claiming a Honourable founder will revolutionize the mobile Internet.
-Will be Knight, Publisher of news and analysis

Forget hotels, Sochi Tech has been to the Olympic challenge
A very intimate look on how a modern surveillance state used the technology to do things as journalists watch and provide security during the games in Sochi, Russia.
-David Talbot, Chief


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