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The Promise of Ethical Machines

The prospect of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a source of knotty ethical questions

28 июля 2017 0 6756

Musk's Hyperloop Plan Is Fantasy, We Should Make It Reality Anyway

Once we built a railroad, made it run

27 июля 2017 0 6127

How Parasites Pull the Strings

Science fiction has long explored the terrifying possibility that we are devoid of free will, and that some unpleasant creature could control our minds or turn us into plodding zombies. But mind control is not just a literary trope. It is also a common method by which parasites gain access to environments where they can grow, reproduce, and complete their life cycles

26 июля 2017 5 мин. 7377

Why It's Really Easy For Anyone To Censor WhatsApp

China started censoring certain parts of WhatsApp earlier this week, according to reports

25 июля 2017 2 мин. 6869

Trumping the Renminbi

At the concluded World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese President Xi Jinping mounted a robust defense of globalization, reaffirming his country’s “open door” policy and pledging never to seek to start a trade war or to benefit from devaluation of its currency

24 июля 2017 0 6492

Brexit to Nowhere?

Politics brings out strong emotions in everyone. Even the British, despite their reputation for pursuing their interests in a cool and calm fashion, apparently are not immune. Perhaps that reputation is merely a holdover from the long-gone British Empire. It surely does not apply to the United Kingdom of 2017

21 июля 2017 0 7834

Who Earns $192,602 At McDonald's?

McDonald’s pays very little money to its low-skill floor employees, slightly above the minimum wage

20 июля 2017 0 4411

Mothers of the Disappeared

“We were seeking justice. We wanted to prevent disappearance, for it to end. Unfortunately, I still see girls disappearing. I don’t want to be negative, but I don’t know when this will stop,” said Paula Flores of Juárez, Mexico, on July 3, 2016, 18 years after the disappearance and murder of her daughter, María Sagrario González Flores