Wednesday 28th of April 1920

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Karel Čapek introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920. The word robot comes from the word robota, meaning literally "serf labor", and, figuratively, "drudgery" or "hard work" in modern Czech (in Slovak, Russian, Polish, archaic Czech and other Slavic languages the cognate word means simply "work", comparable to German arbeit, with the same meaning.).

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Wednesday 28th of April 1920

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The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people, made of synthetic organic matter, called "robots." Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of cyborgs or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans, although that changes, and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race.

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Sunday 10th of May 1942

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A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

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Thursday 2nd of May 1946

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One night in 1946, Stanislaw Ulam, a young mathematics professor was overwhelmed by a violent headache. He was rushed to a hospital where the surgeon drilled a hole in his skull and found his brain in an acute state of inflammation. Ulam's wife and friends worried that he would suffer permanent brain damage. But that was far from the case. The mathematician went on to produce some of his best work after his recovery.

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Friday 8th of February 1957

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Recognized as a mathematical prodigy, he began to study advanced calculus under Gábor Szegő at the age of 15. On their first meeting, Szegő was so astounded with the boy's mathematical talent that he was brought to tears. Along with Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, von Neumann worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb.

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Wednesday 18th of March 1964

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Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, a formalization of the notion of feedback, with many implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society. Wiener later helped develop the theories of cybernetics, robotics, computer control, and automation. He shared his theories and findings with other researchers, and credited the contributions of others. These included Soviet researchers and their findings. Wiener's acquaintance with them caused him to be regarded with suspicion during the Cold War. His article "A Scientist Rebels" for the January 1947 issue of The Atlantic Monthly[9] urged scientists to consider the ethical implications of their work. After the war, he refused to accept any government funding or to work on military projects.

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Monday 9th of September 1996

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Steve Jobs, 1996: "Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal".

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Monday 10th of April 2000

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Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.

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Monday 23rd of February 2009

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A video showcasing the robotic technology being developed at Skynet Research as part of our effort to impact human life.

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Tuesday 2nd of February 2010

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" I’m an engineer who builds robots; I don’t know why people would be interested in my views on the ethical question " [..] soon the company started to work with Sony on its Aibo robot dog, developing a control system that allowed it to run. After that, it continued in the same vein, with a tool for Sony’s Qrio humanoid robot, allowing choreographers to design dance routines.  

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Tuesday 2nd of August 2011

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Let's not let old arguments about 'technology creating unemployment' be a smokescreen for the real issues [..] Ironically, some of the workers say that they are made to feel like robots. It is the responsibility of the large corporations to ensure that the companies making their electronics abide by similar practices as in their home countries. And it is the responsibility of all of us not to buy goods made by workers who are stripped of their rights and dignity.

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Wednesday 17th of August 2011

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"It's no longer easy to double production by doubling your work force, it might be now cheaper to buy a new machine in the long run," he added. BBC News - Foxconn to boost use of robot machines in manufacturing.

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Wednesday 17th of August 2011

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In addition, the robot is compact and intended to fit into spaces ergonomically designed for human workers. This allows the robot to be easily interchanged with a human coworker when the production order is changed or a new layout is required. FRIDA concept robot.

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Wednesday 17th of August 2011

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If all plant life is owned by mega-corporations due to total contamination by invasive GMOs, and no regulations are in effect that apply to them, then Terminator technology can be instituted at will with no roadblocks. After all, if you own all of the plants, then you can do with them as you like. This may well be part of a well planned strategy for the complete takeover of every living plant on earth by corporate interests. GMO Deregulation: An act of war | Farm Wars.

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Wednesday 17th of August 2011

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“I believe candidly we can accelerate the evolution of autonomous technology if people would just acknowledge that it’s important.” [..] “They provide situational awareness, unmanned lethal and nonlethal fires, unattended precision target attack and acquisition, maximum standoff from threats, … and perform unmanned logistics support and services,” he said. Defense.gov News Article: Robots Could Save Soldiers’ Lives, Army General Says.

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Friday 19th of August 2011

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Workers had complained about conditions at Foxconn factories in the past, with some saying they felt like machines themselves. Was this iPad made by a robot? - Hardware - Technology - News - CRN Australia.

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Thursday 15th of September 2011

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RT @DocPop: Apple banned a game that depicted the dark side of gadget Sidenote; @minusbaby did some

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Wednesday 21st of September 2011

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Vatican scientists urge support for engineered crops - 30 November 2010 - New Scientist:

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Wednesday 21st of September 2011

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RT @JimCameron: I wasn't in Brazil for fun I was there to help tribal people fight the dams that are going to destroy their homes and forest

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Monday 26th of September 2011

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De vilains robots qui prennent le contrôle de l'humanité et nous déclarent la guerre ? Pour Kurzweil, aucune raison de s'inquiéter : la cohabitation se fera dans la joie et la bonne humeur, suffit de pas se planter en les programman

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Wednesday 12th of October 2011

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NEEL KASHKARI: Policy Makers Can't Prevent Slowdown 'Any More Than Sarah Connor Was Able To Stop Skynet'

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Friday 28th of October 2011

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Economists See More Jobs for Machines, Not People:

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Friday 28th of October 2011

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The Future According To Films -

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Monday 31st of October 2011

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PETMAN - BigDog gets a Big Brother

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Saturday 5th of November 2011

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Hugo de Garis «The Coming Artilect War »

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Sunday 6th of November 2011

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FOXCONN TO MASS PRODUCE THEIR OWN "INTELLIGENT ROBOTICS KINGDOM"

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Monday 14th of November 2011

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Avec les robots guerriers, la guerre va changer de visage

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Tuesday 15th of November 2011

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The Cult of Kurzweil: Will Robots Save Our Souls?

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Saturday 19th of November 2011

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'Super soldiers': The quest for the ultimate human killing machine

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Monday 28th of November 2011

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Avatar joins a growing list of visual effects movies that have used USC ICT’s Light Stage technology; others include Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Superman Returns, King Kong, Hancock, G.I. Joe andThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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Friday 16th of December 2011

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RT @HotHardware: Google Takes a Step Closer to Skynet With Robot Car Patent

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Friday 30th of December 2011

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10 Weirdest Scientific Theories Proposed in Science Fiction « The is not » @io9

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Tuesday 3rd of January 2012

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Orangutans get iPad to play with at Milwaukee zoo

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Friday 13th of January 2012

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Inspired By «we find hope for the future of space travel and echoes of its sciencefiction roots»

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Tuesday 17th of January 2012

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If a definitive link between intellectual capacity and drug use does exist, it will likely be some time before anyone establishes one. Having said that, this much is for certain: history has more than its fair share of experimenting experimentalists. Let's meet 10 of history's most influential scientific and technological visionaries, along with their drugs of choice.

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Friday 10th of February 2012

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"Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache," said Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou at a recent year-end party, adding that he wants to learn from Chin Shih-chien, director of Taipei Zoo, regarding how animals should be managed.

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Tuesday 14th of February 2012

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Mobile web devices will outnumber puny humans this year

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Tuesday 14th of February 2012

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Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn

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Monday 20th of February 2012

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DARPA Avatar project aims to give soldiers surrogate

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Sunday 26th of February 2012

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Google To Sell Terminator-Style "Heads-Up Display Glasses"

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Thursday 1st of March 2012

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Robert Proctor production of ignorance»

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Thursday 1st of March 2012

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Control dangerous AI before it controls us, one expert says

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Monday 5th of March 2012

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Meet Cheetah, Boston Dynamics' Terrifyingly Fast Running Robot (Video)

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Monday 12th of March 2012

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Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google. “The only reason” she decided to leave the Pentagon was the allure of working at Google.

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Monday 12th of March 2012

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How to make ethical robots

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Tuesday 13th of March 2012

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Be afraid: Robot experts say machines are catching up

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Monday 9th of April 2012

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Robot realities fail fictional fantasies

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Sunday 22nd of April 2012

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Samsung Unveils Fully Automated Sentry Robot that can Track, Kill Humans

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Sunday 22nd of April 2012

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La crise de l'euro : une offensive de traders robotisés ?

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Thursday 3rd of May 2012

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Ultimately, such surveillance leads to an oppressive atmosphere where people learn to think twice about everything they do, knowing that it will be recorded, charted, scrutinized by increasingly intelligent computers, and possibly used to target them.

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Thursday 17th of May 2012

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From Science Fiction To Fact, Robots Are Coming To A Farm Near You Via @nprnews

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Sunday 3rd of June 2012

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No Terminator-style overlays in first batch of Google Glasses

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Sunday 3rd of June 2012

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The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?

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Sunday 3rd of June 2012

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Les robots vont-ils prendre le pouvoir?

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Tuesday 5th of June 2012

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Planetary Resources - The Asteroids Mining company

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Friday 15th of June 2012

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Apple Is Knight Rider, Google Is Terminator, Microsoft Is Minority Report

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Friday 15th of June 2012

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The “Truman Show” delusion: Psychosis in the global village

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Tuesday 3rd of July 2012

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Are We Building Gods or Terminators?

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Tuesday 3rd of July 2012

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Angela Merkel Economic Terminator

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Wednesday 11th of July 2012

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"I am a HUGE Bob Marley fan and have been since high school. I have three large Bob Marley posters in my laboratory, have virtually everything he has ever recorded. "When I had the opportunity to name a species that I consider absolutely fascinating, I chose to name it in Bob's honor. "It has nothing to do with the fact that it is a parasite, and everything to do with the fact that it is a truly remarkable animal that is widespread in the Caribbean."

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Friday 13th of July 2012

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Bloodsucking parasite named after Bob Marley

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Friday 13th of July 2012

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Reggae king Bob Marley has finally hit the big time" "You read that right: a crustacean, not a Crustafarian."

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Friday 20th of July 2012

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Batman cinema shooting: At least 12 shot dead and 50 injured in Denver by 'Terminator-like' gunman

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Saturday 21st of July 2012

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«He looked like the Terminator. He didn’t say anything. He was just shooting and shooting and shooting»

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Sunday 22nd of July 2012

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Warner Bros Axing Gun Imagery from Trailer

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Sunday 22nd of July 2012

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Movies and real life: Debate rages on

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Tuesday 24th of July 2012

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 "Mr. Bale is there as himself, not representing Warner Brothers."

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Saturday 4th of August 2012

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Eyewitnesses said 6ft tall Holmes, dressed in black body armour and a gas mask, burst into the front of the theatre through a fire exit like the "Terminator", threw a smoke grenade and started firing at the audience with three different guns.

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Thursday 9th of August 2012

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What may be the world’s first cybernetic hate crime unfolds in French McDonald’s

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Tuesday 21st of August 2012

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The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology

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Sunday 26th of August 2012

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Composed with a clear message the graphic coloring book novel calls out for open and honest discussion. We educate children about something besides the "TMZ Society" which bombards them with "important" news. Truthful and honest education about serious subjects for youth is an essential part of learning and considered a critical step in beginning to comprehend the world in which we live.

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Sunday 23rd of September 2012

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Free Speech in the Age of YouTube

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Monday 22nd of October 2012

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Welcome to Terminator Planet

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Tuesday 23rd of October 2012

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Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050

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Tuesday 27th of November 2012

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'Terminator' Studies Center Launched at Cambridge

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Tuesday 27th of November 2012

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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic Terminator films famously showed a world where ultra-intelligent machines fight against humanity in the form of the genocidal Skynet system.

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Wednesday 28th of November 2012

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The scientists said that to dismiss concerns of a potential robot uprising would be "dangerous".

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Wednesday 28th of November 2012

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We are a risk-averse society. But there's a mismatch between public perception of very different risks and their actual seriousness.

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Wednesday 28th of November 2012

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In 1965, Irving John ‘Jack’ Good wrote a paper for New Scientist called ‘Speculations concerning the first ultra-intelligent machine’.

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Wednesday 28th of November 2012

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What to do? A good first step, we think, would be to stop treating intelligent machines as the stuff of science fiction, and start thinking of them as a part of the reality that we or our descendants may actually confront, sooner or later. via Artificial intelligence – can we keep it in the box?.

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Friday 30th of November 2012

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Spanner isn’t quite Skynet — the self-aware artificial intelligence system in the Terminator movies — but it does show how far we’ve come at building connected systems and databases. “When there are outages, things just sort of flip — client machines access other servers in the system,” Google software engineer Andrew Fikes told Wired. “It’s a much easier service story. … The system responds — and not a human.”

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Saturday 1st of December 2012

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« the threat is terror as well as error »

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Saturday 1st of December 2012

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"It tends to be regarded as a flaky concern, but given that we don't know how serious the risks are, that we don't know the time scale, dismissing the concerns is dangerous,"

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Saturday 1st of December 2012

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I have heard few discussions of robotic warfare without someone joking about the Matrix or Terminator; the danger of delegating warfare to machines has been a central theme of modern science fiction.

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Tuesday 4th of December 2012

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“Losing Humanity” is the first major publication about fully autonomous weapons by a nongovernmental organization and is based on extensive research into the law, technology, and ethics of these proposed weapons.

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Tuesday 4th of December 2012

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America's mindless killer robots must be stopped | Noel Sharkey

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Thursday 20th of December 2012

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DARPA Building Real LifevTerminators Military Robots:

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Thursday 24th of January 2013

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How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up.

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Friday 25th of January 2013

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LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hit out on Wednesday at a Hollywood film about his secret-spilling website, calling the movie "a massive propaganda attack".

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Saturday 16th of February 2013

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From Terminator to Toy Story: drones for a better tomorrow

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Sunday 17th of February 2013

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Ellison, the founder of Annapurna Pictures is key player associated with writer Mark Boal and one of the Wikileaks Movie efforts.

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Saturday 16th of March 2013

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“Labor violations aren’t restricted to Samsung and are a problem in the electronics industry,”

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Sunday 17th of March 2013

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The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we're being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks us on our iPhones and iPads.

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Thursday 21st of March 2013

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CIA's Gus Hunt On Big Data: We 'Try To Collect Everything And Hang On To It Forever'

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Sunday 24th of March 2013

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Under Nazi Germany, Dehomag leased and maintained the Nazis' collection of card punch machines. The use of this technology increased the efficiency of the Final Solution. IBM in New York established a special subsidiary, Watson Business Machines, to deal with railway traffic in the General Government during the Holocaust in Poland.

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Friday 12th of April 2013

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Terms and Conditions May Apply - Official Trailer:

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Saturday 27th of April 2013

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These vendors are becoming our feudal lords, and we are becoming their vassals. We might refuse to pledge allegiance to all of them – or to a particular one we don’t like. Or we can spread our allegiance around. But either way, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to not pledge allegiance to at least one of them.

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Sunday 28th of April 2013

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Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

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Sunday 28th of April 2013

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Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, "The Struggle for Existence", Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation. After examining the evidence of cooperation in nonhuman animals, in pre-feudal societies and medieval cities, and in modern times, he concluded that cooperation and mutual aid are the most important factors in the evolution of species and the ability to survive.

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Thursday 2nd of May 2013

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Bigelow was married to fellow director James Cameron from 1989 to 1991.
Zero Dark Thirty, a dramatization of American efforts to find Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty was acclaimed by film critics but it has also attracted controversy and strong criticism for its allegedly pro-torture stance.

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Tuesday 7th of May 2013

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Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirtywas the biggest publicity coup for the CIA this century outside of the actual killing of Osama bin Laden. But the extent to which the CIA shaped the film has remained unclear. Now, a memo obtained by Gawker shows that the CIA actively, and apparently successfully, pressured Mark Boal to remove scenes that made them look bad from the Zero Dark Thirty script.

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Wednesday 8th of May 2013

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Like it or not, science fiction is becoming science fact. The Terminator was, of course, a work of fiction, but the idea of cyborgs and killer machines is not all that farfetched.  In fact, the danger is becoming so real that the Obama Administration found the need to spell out explicit rules that specify under what circumstances machines are allowed to kill humans.

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Wednesday 29th of May 2013

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"Machines lack morality and mortality, and as a result should not have life and death powers over humans,"

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Thursday 6th of June 2013

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these robots have “the potential to pose new threats to the right to life…[to] create serious international division and weaken the role and rule of international law – and in the process undermine the international security system.”

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Sunday 30th of June 2013

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Edward Snowden may be the last of the human spies | Christopher Steiner

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Monday 1st of July 2013

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How algorithms rule the world

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Thursday 12th of September 2013

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PETMAN is the Terminator's less violent kid brother

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Sunday 15th of September 2013

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Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is 'the nature of our society'

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Tuesday 24th of September 2013

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RT @Cabledrummer: Who rules Disney? Bank of America, Visa, Halliburton: The connections of board of directors

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Thursday 17th of October 2013

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How the CIA Helped Disney Conquer Florida

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Friday 8th of November 2013

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Google Is Testing A Program That Tracks You Everywhere You Go

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Friday 8th of November 2013

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Britain's Spy Chiefs Throw Off James Bond Image to Attack NSA's Edward Snowden Leaks

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Friday 8th of November 2013

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Video games are making us too comfortable with the modern surveillance state

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Sunday 1st of December 2013

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This Massive Robot Could Soon Join Marines on the Battlefield

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Monday 16th of December 2013

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The Day Google Became Skynet

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Friday 20th of December 2013

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as housing prices rise in the San Francisco Bay Area, angry activists are targeting those shuttles to protest the region's gentrification. "We want the ruling class, which is becoming the tech class, to listen to our voices and listen to the voices of folks that are being displaced," said one SF protester.

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Saturday 28th of December 2013

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Google s'achète un bestiaire d'automates …

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Sunday 5th of January 2014

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DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s

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Sunday 5th of January 2014

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Apparently, Google’s robotics division needs to scare the pants off of the rest of the world.

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Monday 6th of January 2014

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Terminators or protectors? Rise of the robot soldiers may be closer than you think

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Sunday 19th of January 2014

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Meet the Google robot that won DARPA's techno challenge (video)

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Monday 20th of January 2014

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« À jouer la guéguerre des machines, nous serons toujours perdants »

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Monday 20th of January 2014

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REMINDER: Asimov's Laws Of Robotics Won't Protect You And Robots Will Be More Than Happy To Kill Us All

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Saturday 25th of January 2014

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Google Engineer Targeted By Protesters In Front Of His East Bay Home

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Saturday 25th of January 2014

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In defense of militant anti-Google protests

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Saturday 25th of January 2014

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Fight Evil Join The Revolution

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Monday 27th of January 2014

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Kurzweil's goal is to build a search engine that's so smart it'll act like a "cybernetic friend". We're sure that's what Skynet's creators thought before the Terminator appeared on the scene. And with Google's purchase of (primarily military) robotics specialist Boston Dynamics last month we're genuinely starting to get a little worried.

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Monday 27th of January 2014

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Are Google building a TERMINATOR? Choc Factory buys AI firm DeepMind Technologies

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Monday 27th of January 2014

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All the pieces are now in place for a Google-created Skynet and the robotic Judgment Day apocalypse that would surely follow. Yes, Google might become the first big corporation to enact Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.

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Tuesday 28th of January 2014

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"IF WE CAN PROTECT INNOCENT CIVILIAN LIFE, I DO NOT WANT TO SHUT THE DOOR ON THE USE OF THIS TECHNOLOGY." Ron Arkin "this isn’t about killer robots or killer soldiers, this is about disaster response,’ but everybody knows what the real interest is," MG "Either we're going to decide not to do this, and have an international agreement not to do it, or it's going to happen." MG

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Thursday 30th of January 2014

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Google sets up artificial intelligence ethics board to curb the rise of the robots

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Friday 7th of February 2014

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a lot of that kind of thing seems to be happening, between the NSA spying and Google (GOOG) Glass, which apparently has a new app with facial recognition software, designed to look at you and then your face compared to millions of others in the database, including social networks, and it comes up and tells the person who you are, where you live, and so forth and so on, and all the information that’s available to you in the Internet. Here we are, welcome to the future.

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Friday 7th of February 2014

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Terminator co-writer : « One of my inspirations was Darpa »

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Saturday 15th of February 2014

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Rebecca Solnit Diary: get off the bus

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Friday 21st of February 2014

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Professor Martin Rees: Our Final Century? The risks posed by emerging 21st century technologies

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Tuesday 25th of February 2014

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RT @BanKillerRobots: Fully autonomous weapons are never going to work b/c logic of war is asymmetrical based on different moral codes/conve…

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Tuesday 25th of February 2014

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RT @BanKillerRobots: We are already being emotionally managed by the machines that we Will guilt + deceit be programmed in?

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Wednesday 26th of February 2014

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Stop killer robots while we still can

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Thursday 27th of February 2014

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SOCOM working on 'Iron Man' suit

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Wednesday 12th of March 2014

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Killer robots: dystopian fiction or imminent threat?

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Wednesday 12th of March 2014

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Why You're Better Off Trusting a Robot Over a Human

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Wednesday 12th of March 2014

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Google’s big principled stance against surveillance is honorable — or it would be, if the company wasn’t so deeply involved in the very thing that it claims to be against. what few people realize is that Google has also been using its wares to enhance and enrich the surveillance operations of the biggest and most powerful intelligence and DoD agencies in the world: NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA and NGA — the whole alphabet soup.

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Wednesday 19th of March 2014

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Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Bots

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Thursday 20th of March 2014

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Snowden's robot promises more revelations

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Wednesday 26th of March 2014

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Facebook is Buying Oculus Because It Needs a Sci-Fi Toy

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Wednesday 26th of March 2014

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Google isn’t interested in taking money from DARPA because its ambitions are in the more lucrative consumer market, and any association with DARPA leads to headlines like, "What the heck will Google do with these scary military robots?"

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Thursday 27th of March 2014

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Robotics Firm With Evil Name Wins Investors

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Thursday 27th of March 2014

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Terminator-maker 'Cyberdyne Inc' lists on Tokyo stock exchange …

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Friday 4th of April 2014

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"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" Is About Obama's Terror-Suspect Kill List

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Monday 7th of April 2014

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DARPA-Funded Atlas Robot to Go Tetherless in the Next Six Months

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Monday 7th of April 2014

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«Google est une société magnifique. Pourtant, si elle devient leader en matière de lutte contre la mort, d'intelligence artificielle, de robotique, de domotique, de voitures intelligentes, il faudra vraiment réfléchir à la démanteler! Elle pourrait devenir plus puissante que les États.»

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Monday 7th of April 2014

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VIDEO: BigDog Beta (High Quality) - early Big Dog quadruped robot testing

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Thursday 10th of April 2014

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RT @JimCameron: It’s time for people to face the fact that our world is at Tune in to @YEARSofLIVING and take a

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Friday 11th of April 2014

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Surveillance is the Business Model of the Internet: Bruce Schneier

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Wednesday 16th of April 2014

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Google Warns: We Are Scanning Your Email

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Wednesday 30th of April 2014

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The Rise of the Drone Master: Pop Culture Recasts Obama

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Wednesday 30th of April 2014

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Obama’s Pop Culture Legacy [VIDEO]

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Monday 5th of May 2014

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RT @TheAnonNation: Here's Michael Hayden acting like the evil Burns from the Simpsons at the

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Monday 5th of May 2014

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Wikileaks Julian Assange on The Simpsons 500th Episode

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Monday 5th of May 2014

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RT @sarahjeong: “That’s Google, not NSA” — Michael Hayden

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Wednesday 7th of May 2014

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Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA

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Friday 9th of May 2014

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'Killer robots' to be debated at UN

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Monday 12th of May 2014

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Depuis peu, des machines électroniques capables de produire des objets, fonctionnant à la manière d’imprimantes en trois dimensions, sont accessibles au grand public. Elles suscitent un engouement au sein d’une avant-garde qui y voit les ferments d’une nouvelle révolution industrielle. Mais les partisans de ces outils de bricolage technologique oublient souvent l’histoire qui les a vus naître.

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Monday 12th of May 2014

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Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks, says a group of leading scientists

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Tuesday 13th of May 2014

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Corporations are 1st Generation AI’s

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Tuesday 13th of May 2014

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‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’

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Wednesday 14th of May 2014

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RT @BanKillerRobots: @SarahKnuckey One govt delegation raised spectre of "The Terminator" It's their mtg, govts can say w…

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Wednesday 14th of May 2014

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RT @BanKillerRobots: Starting session on legal concerns over lethal autonomous weapons systems - with The Terminator on 1st slide ht…

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Wednesday 14th of May 2014

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Machines are starting to take the place of human soldiers on the battlefield. http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/19/ba... Some military and robotics experts predict that "killer robots" -- fully autonomous weapons that could select and engage targets --- could be developed within 20-30 years.

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Wednesday 14th of May 2014

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Michael Hayden "We Kill People Based on Meta-Data"

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Wednesday 14th of May 2014

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Imaginez des machines capables de repérer des humains, de les approcher et de... les tuer. Pour le moment, cette situation n'est qu'une fiction mise en scène dans la saga "Terminator". Mais la technologie progresse si rapidement qu'elle pourrait être très bientôt une réalité.

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Thursday 15th of May 2014

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RT @mgubrud: Heyns: to be targeted as an object by a machine is the ultimate

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Saturday 17th of May 2014

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"The Jetsons" gave us the dream of a robot designed to help. "The Terminator" gave us the nightmare of a machine designed to kill. The future is apparently here.

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Sunday 18th of May 2014

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Sony Pictures Entertainment has optioned the film rights to the book “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” with the James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli ..

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Monday 19th of May 2014

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Around 7AM on January 21st, 2014, a small group of protesters gathered in the driveway of an understated $1 million four bedroom family home in Berkeley and unfurled a hand-painted banner that read "GOOGLE’S FUTURE STOPS HERE."

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Monday 19th of May 2014

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Breaking the rules of a civil society: Activists target a Google engineer at his Berkeley home

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Monday 19th of May 2014

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... celebrating an imaginary Google service allowing the public to ride the private shuttles, "Google Buses," for free since MUNI is in crisis, and a fare hike is imminent.

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Tuesday 20th of May 2014

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In the Terminator movies, fully autonomous robots wage war against humanity. Although cyborg assassins won’t be arriving from the future anytime soon, offensive “Terminator-style” autonomous robots that are programmed to kill could soon escape Hollywood science fiction and become reality.

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Monday 26th of May 2014

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“It is very possible that Terminator of the future would need to be constructed starting from such building blocks.”

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Monday 26th of May 2014

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Inspired by fictional cyborgs like Terminator, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh has made the first bionic particles from semiconductors and proteins.

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Monday 26th of May 2014

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How killer robots became more than just scary science fiction.

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Tuesday 27th of May 2014

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Researchers are working on robots that can make ethical choices and then explain why

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Thursday 5th of June 2014

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Il y a un an, Edward Snowden révélait « à quel point notre relation à la technologie a changé à tout jamais, et pourquoi nous ne pourrons plus faire confiance aux machines »

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Thursday 5th of June 2014

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We live already in the era of the Cyborg. Our Humanities are practically indistinct from the Machine. Functions of our bodies such as communicating, remembering, recognizing each other, our personal and shared memories and most of our works are now indivisible from the functions of the machines.

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Monday 9th of June 2014

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Right now the most significant consequence has been the knowledge that has fueled the debate. A lot of what we have read from these NSA documents isn't surprising, but the details make them real in a way that speculation doesn't.

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Monday 9th of June 2014

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Engineers say the robot is also equipped with a sophisticated audio command program that recognizes and subsequently ignores such phrases as “Stop” and “I give up” and is programmed to apply pressure to a prostrate suspect’s neck with a force of up to 500 PSI both before and after he’s stopped moving. Its operating system is also reportedly loaded with advanced visual recognition software that allows the robot to identify nearly any object in the subject’s hand as a weapon, prompting it to rapidly empty the clip on its extendable .40-caliber firearm.

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Tuesday 10th of June 2014

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The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years..

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Tuesday 10th of June 2014

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“We’re nowhere near Skynet today. That’s way the heck out there. That’s not close to anything that’s possible today.”

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Sunday 15th of June 2014

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"What's happening is if you have a great idea and the technical skills to implement it you can create disproportionate wealth very quickly," he said. "That's good by itself except it increases disparity." That disparity, Khosla said, will only continue to grow as machine learning and big data technologies improves. Eventually, software will have the ability to replace everything from farmworkers picking lettuce to law clerks.

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Sunday 15th of June 2014

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The audio-recognition feature works similar to the app Shazam, which also can identify music and television programming using the built-in microphones in mobile phones.

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014

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Snowden can drive his in-office telepresence system with his keyboard’s arrow keys at around two miles an hour. It has an eight hour battery life before it needs to dock into a $950 charging station, and even comes with a “party mode” that activates more ambient microphones and elevates the volume of its speaker.

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Thursday 26th of June 2014

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Think the NSA is scarry ? Watch this..

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Thursday 26th of June 2014

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Google’s DC office is crammed to the brim with former spooks, intelligence officials and revolving door military contractors.

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Friday 27th of June 2014

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Over the past few years Google has made strides into robotics, artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles... and that's just the secret projects we know about. Watching the pieces fall into place, it's hard to not see a certain pattern emerge. One that matches a familiar sci-fi world that filmmaker James Cameron first envisioned 30 years ago. One in which AI, robotics, and autonomous vehicles all unite in a winner-takes-all battle against humanity itself.

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Friday 27th of June 2014

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Meet your new robot overlords

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Monday 30th of June 2014

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« I LIKE TO JUST KEEP AN EYE ON WHAT'S GOING ON WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. I THINK THERE IS POTENTIALLY A DANGEROUS OUTCOME THERE »

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Monday 30th of June 2014

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MUSK: YEAH. I MEAN, I DON'T THINK – IN THE MOVIE "TERMINATOR," THEY DIDN'T CREATE A.I. TO – THEY DIDN'T EXPECT, YOU KNOW SOME SORT OF TERMINATOR-LIKE OUTCOME. IT IS SORT OF LIKE THE MONTY PYTHON THING. NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION. IT'S JUST – YOU KNOW, BUT YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. YEAH, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT –

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Wednesday 2nd of July 2014

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The U.S. government is militarizing social media through a combination of technology and social sciences, and Facebook is helping them.

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Wednesday 2nd of July 2014

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We may think of ourselves as rational actors, in conscious control of our choices, but most of what we do is reflexive. Our behavior is determined by our subliminal reactions to the influence of other people, particularly those in the various peer groups we belong to.

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Friday 11th of July 2014

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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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Friday 11th of July 2014

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“We don’t give them a manual, we don’t send them home for three weeks to study,” says James Blake, head of the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation. “We just put them in the environment, put the device on them, and exercise.” “We get kids who come in with unrealistic views of the Army because of Call of Duty,” Hill says, referring to Activision Blizzard’s popular video game franchise. “You’re not going to come in here and run around like you’re in a one-man war.”

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Friday 11th of July 2014

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The NSA will soon be able to collect 966 exabytes a year, the total of internet traffic annually. Former Google head Eric Schmidt once argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes.

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Friday 18th of July 2014

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Every time it kills civilians, we add to guilt, like a bank account. And as time passes, guilt decays and reduces in value (especially if the robot kills bad guys). Now here's the governor bit: whenever guilt is above a value -- say, 100 -- then the robot formulaically becomes less willing to shoot.

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Friday 18th of July 2014

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This form of control is indifferent to whether or not I “believe” in it. I can’t choose to opt out or face it down with a vigilant skepticism. I can decide to resist—I can toss my smartphone in a lead bag and refuse all social media—but these decisions won’t affect the social infrastructure I am embedded in.

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Monday 21st of July 2014

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These robots are our golems — utterly unpredictable, entirely unaccountable, alarmingly enabling. The horizon of war reeks of their casualties, with every blue face, every lank arm, the output of an arbitrary machine.

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Monday 21st of July 2014

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“For many of these cases, they’re often individuals who are young, increasingly young, often have some history of mental problems,” Karen Greenberg of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School told Al Jazeera. “The real issue is, what about the real terrorists?”

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Monday 21st of July 2014

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Police agencies coercing people into committing crimes so they can arrest them is not completely unheard of. (It's been used liberally to create the idea that the nation is crawling with Islamic terrorists.)

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Monday 21st of July 2014

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“.. take a closer look and you realize that many of these people would never have committed a crime if not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring, and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”

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Monday 21st of July 2014

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Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the "direct involvement" of government agents or informants, a new report says. "In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act,"

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Tuesday 5th of August 2014

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Google entered the lobbying rankings above military aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, with a total of $18.2 million spent in 2012. Boeing and Northrop Grumman also came below the tech...

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Saturday 30th of August 2014

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« LE DIVERTISSEMENT FAIT PARTIE DE NOTRE DIPLOMATIE » @arthackday

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Saturday 30th of August 2014

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« We are building iron-man » @arthackday

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Saturday 30th of August 2014

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@arthackday @StopTheRobotWar

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Saturday 30th of August 2014

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billionaire:'Technology increases the wealth gap' @arthackday

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Saturday 30th of August 2014

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we allready live in the cyborg era @jerezim @arthackday

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Saturday 30th of August 2014

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« When The Simpsons do something with you, you cannot be completely bad »

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Monday 22nd of September 2014

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Some of the biggest names in technology have been making the pilgrimage to the desert for years, happily blending in unnoticed. These include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Google founders, and Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon. But now a new set of younger rich techies are heading east, including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, employees from Twitter, Zynga and Uber, and a slew of khaki-wearing venture capitalists.

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Sunday 28th of September 2014

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The notion that the world outside its homepage remains anonymous is increasingly untrue. Millions of internet users voluntarily give Facebook, Google, and others access to their movements across the web and on mobile when they use “social log in,” or the ability to sign in to a website using credentials from the big identity providers.

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Tuesday 30th of September 2014

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La psilocybine contenue dans certains champignons hallucinogènes pourrait aider des fumeurs de longue durée à arrêter de fumer. C’est le résultat d’une petite étude pilote qui a obtenu 80 % de réussite sur un échantillon de 15 fumeurs.

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Tuesday 7th of October 2014

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Somewhere between military robots, Amazon drones knocking on your door to deliver a parcel, and the rise in machine intelligence, lies what some call The Terminator Scenario. Jean-Baptiste Bayle has spent the past few years looking at the fear and likeliness that our society is getting closer to the one depicted in the 1984 science fiction film The Terminator. The Terminator Studies timeline, map and news collection propose a reinterpretation of a Sci-fi blockbuster. The picture that emerges from this research hovers between cinematographic prophecy and History contaminated by fiction.

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Thursday 30th of October 2014

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RT @nico_maigret: First pictures from the show @ accès)s( Festival @julian0liver @rybn @terminatorstud @wmmna @recyclism

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Friday 31st of October 2014

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Mathieu Rigouste : « La mort de Rémi n’est pas une bavure, c’est un meurtre d’Etat »

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Monday 3rd of November 2014

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"The future rests in many ways on hard days like this but we believe we owe it to the folks who were flying these vehicles as well as the folks working so hard on this to understand this and move forward."

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Thursday 6th of November 2014

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iExploitation: Apple Supplier Jabil Exploits Workers to Meet iPhone 6 Demands

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Thursday 6th of November 2014

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Cash Investigation : "Les secrets inavouables de nos téléphones portables"

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Friday 7th of November 2014

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Cash investigation - Industrie du tabac la grande manipulation

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Wednesday 19th of November 2014

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Le pouvoir politique subit une pression croissante exercée par le lobbying numérico-industriel, lui faisant miroiter une fluidification et une optimisation de la vie grâce à ses systèmes de rationalisation computationnelle, déjà à l’œuvre dans les programmes de l’Open data ou des smart cities. Face à la démission du politique, c’est une politisation de ces enjeux par toutes les forces de la société qui s’impose aujourd’hui.

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Tuesday 27th of January 2015

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A century of denial on black lung

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Wednesday 18th of February 2015

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For reasons both personal and business, Silicon Valley isn’t just empowering drugs—it could possibly be empowered by them.

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Thursday 26th of February 2015

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RT @wmmna: new post! Disnovation, an inquiry into the mechanics and rhetoric of innovation @nico_maigret

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Tuesday 31st of March 2015

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RT @nico_maigret: DISNOVATION :: exposition @ Bordeaux :: L’hypothèse d’une «propagande de

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Monday 6th of April 2015

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RT @nico_maigret: Images > L’hypothèse d’une «propagande de l’innovation» @ Bordeaux … @terminatorstu…

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Thursday 10th of March 2016

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LtCol Hank Lutz: Joint Concept for Robotic and Autonomous Systems (PDF)

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