A new book, "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong", considers options for ensuring that robots don't take over the world and subjugate or destroy the human race, a popular concept in science fiction....
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A new Harris poll finds that 4 out of 5 adults in the US are now using the internet; in 1995 it was about 1 out of 10. " In 1995, when The Harris Poll� began measuring online activity, less than 18 million...
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Patient in a coma woke up and has partially recovered after exposure to magnetic fields. "A US patient who was left in a coma after a severe road accident regained the ability to speak after repeated exposure to a magnetic field. The patient, Josh Villa, had not been expected...
Anyone who has taken nice close-ups of polar bears in the wild is being asked to contribute their photos to the online polar bear research database put together by biologists from the University of Central...
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" A day after landing India’s first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was on Saturday getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft,...
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Google and Apple iPhone have teamed up to provide a new free service; you'll be able to ask your phone virtually any question (factual questions and directions are expected common uses) and artificial intelligence will interpret your words and flash the results onto your...
Existing technology combined with venture capital and the recent FCC decision to open up the unused TV broadcast frequencies known as white-spaces for use by other types of devices means high-speed internet will be available on mobile devices and in previously unreachable...
Purple America is closer to the reality of human beings and behavior than the red and blue maps the corporate media present. Republicans, Democrats, independents and third parties have more in common than we do...
opinion by Erik Larson | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 132 views | 5 recommendations | 4 comments
Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...
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"This NASA image received in February 2006 shows the calving front, or break-off point into the ocean, of Helheim Glacier""Research on Arctic and North Atlantic ecosystems shows the recent warming trend counts...
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"SAN FRANCISCO — In tough circumstances, sometimes all you need is hope, but other times you need a blow-up survival shelter featuring a bed, a couch, freeze-dried food, a 50-gallon water bladder, a first-aid...
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After a successful launch this is the icing on the cake for Indian Lunar Mission. ISRO has managed to place Chandrayaan in the Lunar mission. It is noteworthy that India has joined a select league of nationa like...
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A survey of over 2,300 women has come to the conclusion that foreplay as an aid to orgasm has little or no significance. It also reveals that intercourse for Europeans is on average about 16.2 minutes whilst...
opinion by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 3502 views | 11 recommendations | 5 comments