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A new way of creating positrons hints at a potential shortcut towards antimatter engines. But we're still a long way off from such spacecraft...
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The Tau Zero Foundation has a radical plan for exploring interstellar space with an extreme spaceship. Problem is, it might not be radical enough.
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Engineers are using evolutionary algorithms to design new ion engines for spacecraft.
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Computers that can tell when someone isn't being genuine or mocking them, that's exactly what we wanted...
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Could babies show future robots the proper way to interact with other humans?
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Is it possible to simulate and compute our way to solving the mysteries of the universe and actually get it right in the end?
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Bill McKibben isn't worried that the Technological Singularity will never happen. He's worried it will usher in an era of fascist ubermensch who will destroy humanity as we know it.
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Defining artificial intelligence is a very difficult problem, both philosophically and mathematically. So it's little wonder some people interested in AI want to take some shortcuts...
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Computers and robots are probably not going to be our friends or act like anything other than our helpers and tools in the real world. And that's ok.
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A new computer language wants computers to learn about the world the same way we do: using statistics.