Google in deal to boost mobile payments
Google on Monday struck a deal with struggling start-up Softcard and several US telecoms companies to beef up its Google Wallet app as it tries to tackle Apple in the fast-
Read moreWhat Clever Robots Mean for Jobs
Experts rethink belief that tech always lifts employment as machines take on skills once thought uniquely humanCAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Economist Erik Brynjolfsson had long dismissed fears that automation would soon devour jobs that required the uniquely human skills of judgment and dexterity.Many of his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a big chunk of tomorrow’s technology is conceived and built, have spent their careers trying to prove such machines are within reach.When Google Inc.
Read moreMicroscopic stealth drones could soon be repairing your blood vessels
Here’s a sentence that’s straight out of the future: Microscopic stealth drones could be repairing your damaged arteries very soon.That’s right. Scientists are developing tiny man-made particles that can whizz around in your blood fixing the damage that causes heart attacks and strokes.
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