Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.
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To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
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As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
Irene is on a bus with her young kids when two men come on, cussing like sailors. Should Irene step in and say something?
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Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.