A herding robot? Get the flock out of here. . .

 Now they can swarm _and_ herd.

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A herding robot? Get the flock out of here. . .

The New Zealand Herald
Aug 28 2014

Anyone who has seen a sheepdog round up a flock will have been impressed by the skill and ingenuity of the border collie. Now scientists have said that the dogs' technique could be mimicked by robots for uses far beyond the farmer's field — from moving......read more...

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Sci-fi, move over; dramas honor real science

Cosmos: great show.

I'm glad the pendulum is swinging this way, although Fantasy and Science Fiction sections still share library shelf space (when did that start? I'm fairly sure these genres were still distinct in the 1980s).

People are right to reject the notion of 'pure science'.

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Sci-fi, move over; dramas honor real science
Joanne Ostrow: 303-954-1830, jostrow@denverpost.com or twitter.com/ostrowdp
The Denver Post
Aug 22 2014

Television has graduated from stories about pseudo-science to a more grounded area of interest: hard science. Unlike the profusion of shows steeped in out-ofbody, time-traveling, telepathic, parallel universe, cybernetic and robotic issues, today's...
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Bike sharing: Forget helmets

It's a conundrum: We can promote public health through bike sharing programs, but must we compromise safety to do so? 

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Bike sharing: Forget helmets

The Vancouver Sun
Aug 21 2014
Second of two parts Go to New York City and you'll see the inconceivable: Thousands of people riding bikes in the thickest of traffic, without helmets. In the Land Of The Free, they have the right to bare heads. But then, you can see the same thing......read more...

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I’m Backing Amazon and Authors Should Too

Author backs Amazon as having a more realistic view of the industry than traditional publishers.

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I'm Backing Amazon and Authors Should Too
BY STEVE COHEN Mr. Cohen is an attorney at KDLM in New York and previously spent 30 years in publishing.
The Wall Street Journal Europe
Aug 21 2014

"You'll never work in this town again!" My agent's exact words were a bit different, but the message was clear: If I took Amazon's side in its battle with Hachette, no publisher would publish another book of mine. That is a risk worth taking because...
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Robotic sex partners could be a reality by 2025: Study

Reduction of human trafficking would be positive, but at what cost?

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Robotic sex partners could be a reality by 2025: Study

Deccan Chronicle
Aug 17 2014

Washington, Aug. 16: Robotic sex partners will become commonplace by 2025, says a report that looks at how continuing improvements to artificial intelligence and robotics will impact society. The 66-page report also focuses on how robotics will impact...
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Scientists teaching robots how to work together

Swarms & their capabilities expand.

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Scientists teaching robots how to work together
By Amina Khan
The Buffalo News
Aug 17 2014

LOS aNGeLeS – Here comes the swarm. Scientists at Harvard University have created the first 1,000-strong swarm of robots that can assemble themselves into different shapes upon command. Using 1,024 three-legged robots roughly the size of a pingpong...
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Meet the geeky Wexford farm boy who became the Sherlock Holmes of the computer age and made billions!

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Meet the geeky Wexford farm boy who became the Sherlock Holmes of the computer age ( ) and made billions!
by Catherine Fegan
Irish Daily Mail
Aug 16 2014

WALTER O'Brien wasn't very popular at school. To teachers, he was the frustrating student who asked ten questions when other children would ask one. 'He was different,' said former teacher John Quane. 'We did struggle to understand him, maybe not that...
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Knight St. bridge crash fatal

A shrine has been erected.

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Knight St. bridge crash fatal

Times Colonist
May 7, 2010
RICHMOND —A single-vehicle crash that closed the southbound lanes of the Knight Street Bridge yesterday morning killed the driver and injured a male passenger, Richmond RCMP said. Speed and alcohol were factors in the 1:37 a.m. crash north of the Bridgepo...read more...

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Tech Care Takes Off

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TECH CARE TAKES OFF
By Brandon Bailey bbailey@mercurynews.com
San Jose Mercury News
Aug 14 2014

It's no coincidence that archrivals Apple and Google launched competing software initiatives this summer for wearable gadgets that track fitness and health. Health technology is hot in the Bay Area, where some of the biggest tech companies and a swarm...
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Tech’s great leap rooted in Chicago

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Tech's great leap rooted in Chicago
Phil Rosenthal
Chicago Tribune
Aug 13 2014

So now we know what the Next Big Thing is that Dag Kittlaus, the Chicago area visionary who helped give the world Siri, has been working on for close to two years. It's Viv, an artificial intelligence system that has the potential to become the...
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Forget something? The hotel robot will gladly bring it to you

A butler doing a happy dance? Different :)

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Forget something? The hotel robot will gladly bring it to you
By JohnMarkoff NEW YORK TIMES
Houston Chronicle
Aug 12 2014

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Think of it as the Terminator's human- friendly sibling. In a hotel lobby across the street from Apple's corporate campus, a desk clerk places a razor in the bin of a 3- foot- high robot and taps in a room number on a display. The...
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Big-Data Scientists Are in Big Demand

This could be Big. 

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Big-Data Scientists Are in Big Demand
BY ELIZABETH DWOSKIN
The Wall Street Journal Europe
Aug 11 2014

For his Ph. D. in astrophysics, Chris Farrell spent five years mining data from a giant particle accelerator. Now, he spends his days analyzing ratings for Yelp Inc.'s online business-review site. Mr. Farrell, 28 years old, is a data scientist, a job...
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Frankenstein dilemma not yet upon us

Nice summary of some classic positions in an important debate. 

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Frankenstein dilemma not yet upon us

Manawatu Standard
Aug 11 2014

The anguish of Frankenstein's creature is terribly recognisable. Offended by his creator's rejection, the literate and articulate monster pleads for a girlfriend but Dr Frankenstein stops work when he realises that he might be creating a breed of...
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Urban jungle a tough challenge for Google’s self-driving cars

There's also the challenge of weather conditions to be overcome by these vehicles. 

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Urban jungle a tough challenge for Google's self-driving cars
Lee Gomes
The Financial Express
Aug 10 2014

AFTER CATCHING the world and the auto industry by surprise with its progress with self-driving cars, Google has begun the latest, most difficult phase of its project—making the vehicles smart enough to handle the chaos of city streets. But while the...
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IBM Develops Chip That Simulates Brain

Yeah, there might be a few commercial applications.

IBM living up to its 'THINK' slogan.

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IBM Develops Chip That Simulates Brain
BY DON CLARK
The Wall Street Journal Europe
Aug 8 2014

SAN JOSE, Calif.— International Business Machines Corp. is claiming a major advance in emulating the brain in silicon. The technology company has developed a microchip that simulates functions of neurons, synapses and other features of the brain to...
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Scientists make flatpack robots that assemble themselves

If they assemble themselves why do they need the scientists?

I learned some origami in Sunday School. This sounds like even more fun. 

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Scientists make flatpack robots that assemble themselves
SCIENCE EDITOR
The Independent
Aug 8 2014

They sound like real-life Transformers – the toys that can change from one shape into another – but these robots are perhaps more akin to the flat-packed world of an Ikea catalogue. Scientists have taken the idea of self-assembly so seriously they...
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Renewable Energy to End Coal Era

RENEWABLE ENERGY TO END COAL ERA

Weekend Daily Planet, 28 February 2013

The perception that fossil fuels are cheap, and renewables expensive, is now out of date.The truth is that wind power is rapidly becoming cheaper than coal and gas - even in those countries of the world’s most abundant fossil fuel resources.Clean energy is a game changer, which promises to turn the economics of power systems on its head.... [article]

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Police drone is invasive ‘toxic toy’

Scott Herhold suggests that San Jose Police Department's new $7,000 drone should be returned or sold, before the police are tempted to use it to invade taxpayers' privacy.

The department's stated 'primary purpose' for the drone - disarming bombs - seems a bit of a stretch to me. Surely there are robotic tools better suited to that purpose.

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Police drone is invasive 'toxic toy'
Contact Scott Herhold at 408-275-0917 or sherhold@mercurynews.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/scottherhold.
San Jose Mercury News
Aug 3 2014


So, great: Somewhere in the bowels of the San Jose Police Department, we have a drone bought with federal money — a Neo 660 V2, to be precise — a 2-foot-wide device that can carry a camera and transmit back incredibly invasive pictures of...
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Britain Bets the Farm on Solar Energy

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Britain Bets the Farm on Solar Energy
BY CASSIE WERBER
The Wall Street Journal Asia
Aug 5 2014

SUFFOLK, England—Alongside the old airfield here, ripening barley shifts in the breeze. Across the way, a more static crop stretches into the distance: 80,000 solar panels, their silvery surfaces facing south. Britain, a land of cloudy skies and...
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Believe the dreamers, not the experts

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Believe the dreamers, not the experts
By VivekWadhwa
The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
Aug 2 2014

History is littered with the failed predictions of experts. Yet governments hire highpaid consultants.
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Researchers Can Steal an iPad PIN with Google Glass or a Smartwatch

Page31. Oi! Thank goodness only researchers can do it.

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Researchers Can Steal an iPad PIN with Google Glass or a Smartwatch

The Jewish Voice
Aug 1 2014
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell have developed a technique for surreptitiously stealing iPad PIN codes, and all it takes is a camera. The one built into Google Glass and Samsung's Gear Smartwatches are a perfect fit too. The......read more...

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