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Consumer concerns forced Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Kroger, Dannon, Yoplait and most of the 100 top US dairies to remove products from cows treated with rbGH or rbST. Although the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) may be one of the most dangerous health and environmental problems we face, it can be one of the easiest of the battles to win
According to a new report from Accenture, one-third of US workers are already primarily temping or freelancing, and that number is expected to rise steeply in the next decade. Schools in general are highly structured, committed to the curriculum, and are rooted in long-held narratives about what classrooms, teaching, and learning are supposed to look and feel like
Wales, a financial trader turned Internet entrepreneur, and Larry Sanger, a freshly minted philosophy PhD, started the site to boost Nupedia, a free online encyclopedia started by Wales that relied on contributions from experts. The loose collective running the site today, estimated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers who might increase participation in Wikipedia and broaden its coverage
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Shallow fracking raises questions for water, new research shows The United States now produces about as much crude oil as Saudi Arabia does, and enough natural gas to export in large quantities. Increased reports of officer misconduct associated with larger police departments The size of a community's police force is a greater predictor for police misconduct than its ethnic diversity, according to researchers from Florida International University and Montana State University
The Spike Jonze film, Her, which is set in the near future and has Joaquin Phoenix falling in love with a computer operating system, is not so much fantasy, according to Kurzweil, as a slightly underambitious rendering of the brave new world we are about to enter. Ray Kurzweil who believes that we can live for ever and that computers will gain what looks like a lot like consciousness in a little over a decade is now Google's director of engineering
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Bits Blog Uber Executive Talks Tough on Europe By MARK SCOTT In the wake of growing regulatory problems, the ride-booking company said it would continue taking legal action against European countries that ban some of its services. 4 Arrested in Schemes Said to Be Tied to JPMorgan Chase Breach By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN Four men in Florida and Israel were arrested in connection with investment schemes that were said to be related to a cyberattack at JPMorgan Chase
Hosting some of New Zealand's most exciting racing events, including the prestigious Lady Wigram Trophy and an annual round of the New Zealand V8s series, the track's main 3.3 kilometer layout runs in an anti-clockwise direction and its challenging layout incorporates many fast sweeping corners that reward smooth and precise drivers". The intention, or promoted functionality for this is to capture Windows games in much the same way you can command Cortana by saying 'Xbox record that'"
Ray Kurzweil: Humans will be hybrids by 2030 - Jun. 3, 2015
His correct predictions included that people would primarily use portable computers in 2009, that cables would disappear and that computer displays would be built into eyeglasses. That's the prediction of Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google (GOOGL, Tech30), who spoke Wednesday at the Exponential Finance conference in New York
By eschewing a screen for a suggestive set of lights, it manages to skirt the Bluedouche problem, turning a wrist-mounted wearable into a subtle act of adolescent rebellion. In many of the most cutting-edge applications for wearables, the time between intention and action is actually negative: The device knows what users want before they want it
10 Science Fiction Writers Predict How Our World Will Change In The Next 10 Years
"Dirty water from the combined sewer system is captured in underground storage tanks and slowly released into the landscape." In 2014, Chinese architecture firm MAD unveiled renderings of Chaoyang Park Plaza, a center of skyscrapers, office blocks and public spaces meant to mimic the appearance of mountains, hills and lakes depicted in Chinese landscape paintings. Much of the film, as far as I could judge, involved an aerial shot taken from a helicopter that hovered for several hours five or six feet above my apartment
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Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015
Context-Rich Systems Ubiquitous embedded intelligence combined with pervasive analytics will drive the development of systems that are alert to their surroundings and able to respond appropriately. "Cloud is the new style of elastically scalable, self-service computing, and both internal applications and external applications will be built on this new style," said Mr
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