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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:41:27 -0000

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Playing artificial god: artificial life created in laboratory - Science News - QJ.NET

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:56:08 -0000

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Slashdot | New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:06:48 -0000

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Roomba-Maker Unveils Kill-Bot on Danger Room

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:15:00 -0000

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The makers of the cuter-than-cute robotic vacuum cleaner are rolling out a new machine: A big, fast-moving, semi-autonomous 'bot capable of killing a whole bunch of people at once.

Early versions of the iRobot Warrior X700 "are slated to be ready by the second half of next year," according to Army Times' Kris Osborn. And unlike previous offerings from iRobot -- which tended to be on the light, bordering-on-flimsy side -- the Warrior will weigh up to 250 pounds. It'll be able to lug a 500-pound payload, and carry 150 pounds with a newly muscular arm. Which will mean the machine is more than buff enough to pack heat.

“We’re looking at urban warfare... It can be deploying weapons systems. It can be doing re-supply operations, taking ammo or water to troops who are pinned down, perimeter security and building clearing,” Helen Greiner, iRobot chairman and co-founder, tells Army Times.

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Slashdot | Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:13:02 -0000

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Slashdot | Bill Introduced to Congress Would Allow ID Theft Restitution

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:01:45 -0000

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Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims - Times Online

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:55:00 -0000

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The 79-year-old geneticist said he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really.". He said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”.

He says that you should not discriminate on the basis of colour, because “there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level”. He writes that “there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so”.

He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade.

The newly formed Equality and Human Rights Commission is studying Dr Watson’s remarks “in full”.

Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said today: “It is sad to see a scientist of such achievement making such baseless, unscientific and extremely offensive comments.

“I am sure the scientific community will roundly reject what appear to be Dr Watson’s personal prejudices. These comments serve as a reminder of the attitudes which can still exist at the highest professional levels.”

Dr Watson was hailed as achieving one of the greatest single scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century when he worked at the University of Cambridge in the 1950s and 1960s, forming part of the team which discovered the structure of DNA.

He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine with his British colleague Francis Crick and New Zealand-born Maurice Wilkins.

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Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:17:18 -0000

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Slashdot | Attacking Criminal Networks On the Internet

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:32:51 -0000

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Hyundai shows off W-100 watch phone - Engadget

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:33:00 -0000

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MySpace.com - Gail Gotti - Brentwood, California - Rap / Hip Hop - www.myspace.com/gailgotti818

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:53:50 -0000

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