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Turkey says it will take extra measures against attacks in Syria’s Idlib Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey says it will take extra measures against attacks in Syria’s Idlib

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will take additional measures against attacks targeting its forces and civilians in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, the national security council said on Thursday, after a nearly 5-hour meeting chaired by President Tayyip Erdogan. Bombardments by Russia-backed Syrian government forces on Idlib have raised concern…
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January 30, 2020
PETA calls for Punxsutawney Phil to be replaced by an an artificial intelligence groundhog: ‘Groundhogs are not barometers’ Moravec‘s Paradox

PETA calls for Punxsutawney Phil to be replaced by an an artificial intelligence groundhog: ‘Groundhogs are not barometers’

PETA — or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — is calling on the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to retire the living, breathing iteration of Punxsutawney Phil. The animal rights organization is, instead, presenting a rather new concept for their review: Replacing the groundhog with an AI robot version of…
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January 30, 2020
Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin: ‘I’d Prefer to be a 19th Century Liberal or a Wet Tory’ Than a ‘Conservative’ Protectionism

Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin: ‘I’d Prefer to be a 19th Century Liberal or a Wet Tory’ Than a ‘Conservative’

Washington Post “conservative opinion writer” Jennifer Rubin announced on Thursday that she’d “prefer to be a 19th-century liberal or a wet Tory,” than a “conservative,” because the word has been “ruined.” “The impeachment trial underscores the degree to whi…
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January 30, 2020
Apple Cancels Xnor.ai Pentagon Contract With Project Maven Project Maven

Apple Cancels Xnor.ai Pentagon Contract With Project Maven

1 minute readJan 30th, 2020 10:21 AM EST | News Shortly after acquiring AI company Xnor.ai, Apple canceled its contract with Project Maven, a Pentagon project to use artificial intelligence to analyze military drone photos (via The Information—paywall). Project Maven The U.S. Department of Defense wants algorithms to analyze imagery captured…
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January 30, 2020