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Guitar Machine Moravec‘s Paradox

Guitar Machine

—We often imagine a future world filled with robots and artificial intelligence agents, where humans share their civilization with sentient beings made out of metals and plastics, that function much like we do. But we could also imagine robots that take the f…
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August 8, 2019
FlixMobility extends Series F at $2B+ valuation as it gears up to add cars to its bus and train network Self-driving Vehicles

FlixMobility extends Series F at $2B+ valuation as it gears up to add cars to its bus and train network

Back in July it emerged that FlixMobility — the company behind the network of ubiquitous green FlixBus coaches that crisscross Europe and parts of the US — had raised about 500 million in the largest-ever round of funding for a German tech company. That turne…
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August 8, 2019
Your Thursday Briefing Climate Change

Your Thursday Briefing

Land and water resources around the globe are being exploited at unprecedented rates, a new United Nations report warns, threatening the ability of humanity to feed itself. The report, which was prepared by more than 100 experts from 52 countries, was releas…
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August 8, 2019
As India and Pakistan – and America and Iran – go toe-to-toe, now is the time to recall the scorched corpses of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hiroshima

As India and Pakistan – and America and Iran – go toe-to-toe, now is the time to recall the scorched corpses of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

We like our anniversaries in blocks of fifty or one hundred at a push well tolerate a twenty five. The 100th anniversary of the Somme (2016), the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (2015). Next year, well remember the end of the Second World War, the f…
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August 8, 2019