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Futurists' report reviews dangers of smart robots - Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewScientists are preparing to publish a report this month that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society. The report will include concerns some researchers have voiced about the legal and ethical use of artificial intelligence. Most computer ...
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IBM parks beta cloud on development and test servers • The RegisterIBM on Thursday kicked off a free public beta of a new cloud computing development and test environment that's hosted on Big Blue's machines. The company also added new tools and services made special for testing cloud-based apps in a private cloud. IBM Smart Business Development and Test on ...
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World's fastest supercomputer models the unseen universe | DVICEIt's hard to tell what the universe looks like, especially since it takes billions of years for the light from most of it to reach us. It's even more difficult to visualize the 70% of the matter in the universe that's invisible. That's why scientists bring out the heavy iron, IBM Roadrunner, ...
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ARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier | Hardware - InfoWorldARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier Small, inexpensive, power-efficient new chips from Intel and ARM are enabling the new wave of mobile devices -- and setting the two companies on a collision course For once, Intel knows how it feels to be the underdog. Over the past ...
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NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepositoryNSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository by Devin Coldewey on November 1, 2009 There’s an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy ...
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50ARM Joins The Linux FoundationThis is a significant move for ARM, considering that Linux installations on ARM hardware have been going on for a some time and long-term use of Linux on the ARM processor platform is most likely to continue to become more widespread.macbraughton added 7 weeks ago
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Global Guerrillas: The US, GLOBALIZATION and the RED QUEENThought this might be tangentially relevant on these twines.Buck Little added 2 months ago
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32Talking paperclip inspires less irksome virtual assistant - tech - 29 July 2009 - New ScientistTwine is also related to some of the technologies in the CALO project. Radar Networks consulted to the project in the early days of own R&D and we helped to develop some of the semantic platform, ontologies, and desktop apps in CALO. Very proud of the project and all the good press it has been getting....Nova Spivack added 3 months ago
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32Transcending Moore's Law: Is This the Most Important Chart in the Technology Business?This is why I am a computer and Internet industry entrepreneur! Where else can you have so many new frontiers to work on? Every 10 years it's a whole new world of opportunity as hardware advances by leaps and bounds.Nova Spivack added 4 months ago
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32Life ItselfThis book looks fascinating. I keep seeing references to it in emerging philosophical and scientific literature around artificial life and consciousness. It relates heavily to Stephen Wolfram's concepts around computational irreducibility and computational equivalence. However at some level, I ...Nova Spivack added 5 months ago
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