The most realistic risks about the dangers of artificial intelligence are basic mistakes, breakdowns and cyber attacks, an expert in the field says – more so than machines that become super powerful, run amok and try to ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
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Say hello to one of the strangest creatures to ever call our planet home: a giant salamander-like amphibian that lurked in the waters of Europe more than 200m years ago.
Archaeology
Mar 24, 2015
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Have you ever danced for joy when you found a great place to live? How about performing that dance to persuade the rest of the family you should move there?
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2015
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An agricultural engineer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has developed a practical, cost-effective approach for taking aerial images of cotton fields that are detailed enough to show patches of large fields ...
Ecology
Mar 24, 2015
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India's famously frugal Mars mission has been extended by around six months thanks to a surplus of fuel on board the spacecraft, the country's space agency said Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2015
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Amazon.com's video game streaming platform Twitch informed users that their accounts may have been hacked.
Security
Mar 24, 2015
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Shallow basin of brackish water. Large catchment area in relation to size. Poor water quality despite reduced external nutrient load. This description sounds familiar to people living in both the Chesapeake Bay area in the ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2015
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Scientists are making advances in the use of satellite radar data – such as those from the Sentinel-1 mission – to monitor Earth's changing surface.
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2015
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On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past Pluto, offering the first close-up look at that small, distant world and its largest moon, Charon. These denizens of the outer solar system will be transformed from ...
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2015
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The capacity of today's wireless communications networks has increased one million-fold since the introduction of the first cellular network in 1957.
Telecom
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