At a the meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, a top U.N. official on execution gave the world his best Sarah Connor impression, urging for a moratorium on Lethal Autonomous Robotics, a warning he hopes will stop a future of armed assassins on the battlefield that may be past the point of no return.
Bill McKibben on the Keystone XL pipeline, David Brooks on the shortcomings of big data, William Pesek on China's North Korean neighbors, Scott Winship on the robot economy, and Jonah Goldberg on liberal Hollywood.
Michael Crowley on Congress' drone anxieties, Michael Hastings on waking up to drone realities, Jonathan Last on immigration filling the population gap, Ruy Teixeira on the population non-problem, and Jason Dorrier on job-stealing robots.
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Discovered: early risers are healthier than night owls; robots take one more step toward self-awareness; antibiotics expand our waistlines; octopi are conscious.
Narrative Science's claim that its algorithm-driven journalism will one day win a Pulitzer has human journalists quivering, yet we're still not convinced it's all that threatening to the future of journalism.
The Pentagon today announced a robot competition, putting out a call for the type of full-service bot that could go into a dangerous emergency situation, perform multiple tasks and complete a mission.
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Headlines like "A Robot Stole My Pulitzer!" tend to get journalists a bit worked up about the future of their industry, and the recent piece from Slate's Evgeny Morozov, which bears that very headline, is no exception.
For $775 million Amazon has acquired robot company Kiva Solutions, looking to "improve productivity" in those fulfillment centers we've heard such un-fun things about.
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No wonder Mitt Romney seemed like a data-driven robot when he praised Michigan for its trees Thursday -- "I love this state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height." He didn't always feel that way.
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Behind every bigoted robot there's a human, behind the latest bigoted robot, Iris, there are a lot of bigoted humans.
After an infection ravaged her jawbone, an 83-year-old woman in Belgium became the world's first human being to receive an artificial jaw made with 3D-printing technology. It's made of titanium, and it is awesome.
Here we are, now solidly into the 21st century, and yet, we still do not have autonomous, friendly robot housekeepers to do all our bidding in the style of Rosie from The Jetsons.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, these are the tweets that made no sense
In airports, people are spending more and more money at vending machines, giving retailers a great reason to come up with creative new ideas to sell stuff in a human-free or at least more automated environment.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
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Watching chat-bots try and act like humans shows they've got a ways to go
One projection says that the nation of robo-workers will be 1.2 million strong in two years
The Swarmanoid has been taught to work together to complete tasks
The president keeps his guard up at Carnegie Mellon's robotics lab
A composite image of a pop group fooled the nation of fans
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