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We are surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, and even save our lives.

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(Credit: Google) Google revealed some new search tools on Wednesday at I/O, its annual developers conference, The New York Times reports. Taken together,

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The chip at the heart of one of D-Wave’s computers (credit: D-Wave) Google, in partnership with NASA and the Universities Space Research Association

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Computers could take some tough choices out of our hands, if we let them. Is there still a place for human judgement?

KEVIN DRUM looks to have set the topic for the day with his article in Mother Jones on the economics of our robotic future. The argument is a good recap of several…

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Neuroscientist Henry Markram says he can build a supercomputer replica of the human brain. Now he has $1.3 billion to prove it.

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This from Froese, Gershenson, and Rosenblueth. The extended mind hypothesis has stimulated much interest in cognitive science. However, its core claim, i.e.

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Deep into the morning procrastination ritual – reading two or more blogs and FB instead of the chapter I’m meant to be finishing – I realized that I had forgotten what I had been reading a minute ago.