| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Samsung Says Best Buy Is a Key Reason for Its Success
| | | Although earnings came in short of expectations last week, the South Korean tech giant posted record revenue largely on the strength of its mobile devices. Like its competitor, Samsung's smartphones and tablets generated more than half of the company's revenue and profit last quarter. (The Motley Fool)
Why This Is Important: The in-store shops have clearly had a positive impact, and Samsung seems to be embracing the experiment.
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| | #2 | The Bitcoin ATM Has A Dirty Secret: It Needs A Chaperone
| | | When Mitchell Demeter and Jackson Warren opened the world's first bitcoin ATM at a coffee shop in Vancouver, it was an instant success. People actually lined up to use the machine, which processed about $1 million in digital currency transactions over its first month. (Wired)
Why This Is Important: Bitcoins are still so new that even those pushing them don't know all the loopholes.
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| | #3 | Should A Robot Decide When To Kill?
| | | By the time the sun rose on Friday, December 19th, the Homestead Miami race track had been taken over by robots. Some hung from racks, their humanoid feet dangling above the ground as roboticists wheeled them out of garages. One robot resembled a gorilla, while another looked like a spider; yet another could have been mistaken for a designer coffee table. Teams of engineers from MIT, Google, Lockheed Martin, and other institutions and companies replaced parts,
ran last-minute tests, and ate junk food. Spare heads and arms were everywhere. (TheVerge)
Why This Is Important: Forget drones. These robots bring the ethics of combat into a completely different light.
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"A human has veto power, but it's a veto power that you have about a half-second to exercise," said Peter Singer, a fellow at the Brookings Institute and author of "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century." "You're mid-curse word."
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