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• Driverless cars pose social dilemma: study

  

  Washington: Driverless cars may pose a social dilemma with most people wanting to live in a world where autonomous vehicles minimise casualties, but at the same time protect them at all costs, a new study has found. Autonomous vehicles are programmed with a set of safety rules, and it is not hard to build a scenario in which such rules come into conflict with each other, researchers said. "Suppose a driverless car must either hit a pedestrian or swerve in such a way that it crashes and harms it..

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• The 5G Wireless Revolution Just Started With This Move

  

  Image source: Getty Images. It's not every day a revolution begins, but we may have seen the start of one this past Monday. That's when FCC chairman and industry lightning rod Tom Wheeler delivered a speech that should jump-start the 5G revolution. Wheeler's opening salvo is likely to initiate fresh competition among U.S. telecoms AT&T (NYSE:T), Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ), T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS), and Sprint (NYSE:S), though the first punch in this battle is probably years away. Dawn of th..

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• Microsoft To End Surface 3 Production By December

  

  If you are currently planning to buy a Microsoft Surface 3, now is the perfect time to do so. Microsoft recently confirmed that it will end Surface 3 production by December this year.  ( Microsoft ) After more than a year since it first hit store shelves, it looks like Microsoft's affordable Windows tablet, the Surface 3, will soon be pulled out from stores. The firm has confirmed to ZDNet that it plans to kill off the Surface 3 in December, adding that the inventory for the devi..

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• Ocean Cleanup Project's trash-catching prototype takes to the angry Dutch seas

  

  Environment Ocean Cleanup Project's trash-catching prototype takes to the angry Dutch seas Nick Lavars June 27, 2016 Its been a few years since Boyan Slat first revealed his bold concept to clean up the world's oceans, and now we're set to see how his trash-catching barriers fare in the real world. The Dutch entrepreneur's Ocean Cleanup Project has successfully deployed its debut prototype of..

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• Introducing SpotMini - A Domestic Pet Helper

  

  Boston Dynamics has released a video introducing SpotMini, a smaller version of its Spot quadruped robot at large in a domestic environment. We see SpotMini loading a dishwasher, suggesting that it might be capable of being useful.     SpotMini is a very odd-looking four footed beast. In place of a neck and head it has a robotic arm and it is this gripper that means it can manipulate objects,and fetch and carry them. Though as you can see in the video it hasn't mastered walking around and does..

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• Chrome exploit makes life easier for video pirates

  

  The investigators aren't saying exactly how the technique works until and unless there's a patch. However, they describe it as relatively simple. It has likely been around ever since Google implemented Widevine in Chrome, they add.How much Google can do about it is another matter. The company tells Wired that it's looking closely at the exploit, but that Chromium's open source nature means that anyone could "create their own versions" of the software that either use different copy protection..

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• Will the rich get richer with Apple's new app store ads

  

  Apple’s reveal of sponsored search ads on the App Store was overshadowed by its simultaneous opening up and improvement of its subscription offerings. But for the average developer or publisher, the ads will have a much more immediate effect on their business. Paid ads won’t begin until Apple has completed a period of free testing. In the interim, App Store publishers should be watching carefully to predict how paid ads will affect their acquisition strategy. With one more channel to spend i..

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• Do scales, feathers, and hairs share a common ancestry?

  

  A bird's feathers, a reptile's scales, and a mammal's hairs may seem like very distinct features, but these skin appendages may come from common origins, say scientists.The mechanism behind the embryonic development of feathers, reptilian scales, and hair is remarkably similar, according to a paper published Friday in the journal Science Advances. This finding suggests that these distinct appendages have their roots in a common ancestor of these three diverse lineages."This doesn't imply at all..

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