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China is urbanizing at breakneck speed. Hundreds of millions of people have migrated from rural areas to cities in search of jobs or higher wages, even as the government commissions new buildings and infrastructure in less ...
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The invention of an artificial super-intelligence has been a central theme in science fiction since at least the 19th century. From E.M. Forster's short story The Machine Stops (1909) to the recent HBO television series Westworld, ...
Aug 23, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
A solar façade developed at ETH Zurich combines electricity production with intelligent shading to achieve optimal energy balance.
Aug 23, 2019
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Computer Sciences
They say if you don't like the weather, just wait awhile. But how long you wait may depend on your location—the weather changes much faster and more violently in some geographic areas compared to others, which can mean ...
Aug 23, 2019
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Robotics
A new generation of swarming robots which can independently learn and evolve new behaviors in the wild is one step closer, thanks to research from the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (UWE).
Aug 23, 2019
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Federal safety officials are recruiting pilots from airlines around the world to test changes that Boeing is making to the flight-control software on the grounded 737 Max jet, according to two people briefed on the situation.
Aug 23, 2019
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Security
A woman accused of hacking Capital One and at least 30 other organizations is a flight risk, a threat and should be kept locked up until her trial, U.S. prosecutors said in court documents filed ahead of a Friday detention ...
Aug 23, 2019
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US authorities on Thursday announced charges against 80 people, most of them Nigerians, in a wide-ranging fraud and money laundering operation that netted millions of dollars from victims of internet con jobs.
Aug 23, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Russia launched the world's first floating nuclear reactor on Friday, sending it on an epic journey across the Arctic, despite environmentalists warning of a "Chernobyl on ice."
Aug 23, 2019
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Robotics
Ew, a cockroach! But it zips off before the swatter appears. Now, researchers have leveraged the bug's superb scurrying skills to create a cleverly simple method to assess and improve locomotion in robots.
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