RT @io9: Peek inside Skynet's 50-year-old blast-proof atomic bunker

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After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat — too radical even for Al Qaeda! — administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore.

In a move echoing the apocolyptic situation played out in the Terminator series of films, the US government is handing over control of its nuclear stockpile to computers. In the Terminator films the US government develops a computer system called Skynet which is designed to have command over all computerised military hardware and systems, including America's entire nuclear weapons arsenal.

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The company suspects the rodent may have caused a short-circuit in a switchboard, triggering the power cut.

Skynet is real: 'Internet doomsday' a ticking time bomb

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RT @ncroal: The final piece of the puzzle falls into place for Cyberdyne:

In that digital arms race, Mr. Etzoni added, Narrative Science could be a “nuclear weapon."