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BBC News
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Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.
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SF Gate
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Sometime next year, developers will boot up the next generation of supercomputers, machines whose vast increases in processing power will accelerate the transformation of the scientific method, experts say.
The first "petascale" supercomputer will be c..
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Wired
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For a mere $82 a computer scientist and electronic voting critic managed to purchase five $5,000 Sequoia electronic voting machines over the internet last month from a government auction site. And now he's taking them apart. Princeton computer science..
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MSNBC
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Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow’s feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country’s 570,000 tobacco vending machines prepare fo..
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BusinessWeek
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Technology to help companies make more efficient use of computers is crimping demand for some machines, forcing strategy shifts for IT giants
For some of the biggest technology companies, the trend toward piling more software onto fewer computers has b..
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Wired
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JAIME CARBONELL, CHIEF science officer of Meaningful Machines, hunches over his laptop in the company's midtown Manhattan offices, waiting for it to decode a message from the perpetrators of a grisly terrorist attack. Running software that took four year..
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