The world must act quickly to avert a future in which autonomous robots with artificial intelligence roam the battlefields killing humans, scientists and arms experts warned at an elite gathering in the Swiss Alps.
Robotics
Jan 22, 2016
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Google Inc. has begun offering free Wi-Fi to Mumbai train passengers in hopes of boosting its role in the Indian market.
Telecom
Jan 22, 2016
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In this age of genome sequencing, we can lose sight of the importance of how our genomes are distributed over 23 pairs of chromosomes. Rearrangements of the pairs are invisible to sequencing if the correct amount of genetic ...
Biotechnology
Jan 22, 2016
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When Charles Darwin visited the Azores islands in the 19th Century, the birds he observed were familiar to him. However, if he had travelled there 500 years before, he would have found an ornithofauna as particular as that ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 22, 2016
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Rob Cross's fascinating work on "collaborative overload," conducted with Adam Grant and Robert "Reb" Rebele of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, is featured on the cover of the January/February ...
Social Sciences
Jan 22, 2016
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These images from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory, or SDO, show magnetically active regions on the sun on Jan. 8-9, 2016. When such regions are close-set, magnetic field lines create a tangle of arches snaking through the ...
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2016
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A virus attack on the computer system of one of Melbourne's largest hospital networks is cause for concern because it affected machines running Microsoft's Windows XP, an operating system no longer supported by the software ...
Security
Jan 22, 2016
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Update #2 - 1:48 PM Eastern Standard Time (image above)
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2016
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More than 300 million people in India have no access to grid electricity, and the problem is especially acute in rural communities, which can be difficult and expensive to reach with grid power.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 22, 2016
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While the effects of power plant emissions, vehicle exhaust and other manmade aerosols on air quality and public health are well-known, their impact on the climate is not completely understood. Scientists have shown that ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2016
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