Google Buys Waze, One of Few Truly Useful Apps
By purchasing crowd-powered navigation app Waze, Google keeps it out of Apple's clutches
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Just Don’t Call it Big Data
Why Google fears the totalitarian connotations of the buzzword big data.
More Large-Scale Invisibility Cloaks, This Time From China and Beyond
Big, cheap invisibility cloaks are suddenly beginning to emerge thanks to some simple optical short cuts that physicists have discovered
China Reveals First Space-Based Quantum Communications Experiment
The "Chinese Quantum Science Satellite" will launch in 2016 and aim to make China the first space-faring nation with quantum communication capability
Other People's Breakthrough Technologies
Another take on the biggest innovations to pay attention to.
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 8 June 2013)
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server
Google, Facebook Founders Express Fears Over NSA Access to Verizon Data
The founders of Google and Facebook say the NSA's access to Verizon call records is too broad.
NSA Data-Scooping: A Coming Backlash in Europe?
The same big U.S. Internet companies that reportedly handed over data wholesale to the NSA have been promising compliance with tough EU privacy standards.
Stories from Around the Web (Week Ending June 7, 2013)
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.
