The Fourth Age – Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity (content marketing)
If you thought reading one book about the future meant you read them all – think again! Content marketing: Legends like Ray Kurzweil,
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Robotics & A.I.
Artificial intelligence beyond the superpowers
Much of the debate over how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect geopolitics focuses on the emerging arms race between Washington and Beijing, as
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Hawking: the most dangerous time for our planet
Hawking on Trump and Brexit: The concerns underlying these votes about the economic consequences of globalisation and accelerating technological change are absolutely understandable.
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RQ-180: stealthy long-range surveillance UAV
The U.S. Air Force is pursuing a long-range, stealthy unmanned surveillance aircraft to go places its high-altitude Lockheed Martin U-2S and Northrop Grumman
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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlvpj7VGsY] Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information
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ESA: Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction
Science Fiction (SF) literature, artwork and films are works of imagination, but often contain some elements of plausibility, with the story revolving around
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Security and Privacy Risks with Household Robots
WowWee Rovio Imagine purchasing a new Rovio robot. This wheeled mobile robot sports a webcam and can be accessed easily through the internet.
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Robots to get their own operating system
Image: Aldebaran Robotics THE UBot whizzes around a carpeted conference room on its Segway-like wheels, holding aloft a yellow balloon. It hands the
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Japan’s Cyberdyne shows of new robot suit in Tokyo
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT7IXfcifHE] Cyberdyne said its 22 pound (10 kilogram) HAL – short for hybrid assistive limb – is equipped with sensors that read brain
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Scientists fear a revolt by killer robots
Advances in artificial intelligence promise many benefits, but scientists are privately so worried they may be creating machines which end up outsmarting —
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