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...That’s really reckless and harmful and it preys on the general public’s fears because, for the better part of half a century, we’ve been creating media sci-fi around how AI could go wrong: Terminator-style...
...Earlier this month, American sci-fi writer Ken Liu, who has a clutch of Hugo and Nebula awards to his name, joined 12 other professional authors for a writing workshop on Google’s Wordcraft....
US regulator rethinks plan to force advisory firms to submit voting recommendations to companies
...Customer service and live diagnostics are also available via the Candy Simply-Fi app....
...The latest advancements in chip technology — including a project called Triffid after the man-eating plants from British sci-fi history aimed at lowering the power consumption of sensors used by logistics...
...It also limits playing games on mobile devices, unless they are connected over Wi-Fi to wired networks....
...medieval in its scale, four cylindrical towers holding up a mass of rusting, industrial steel, while the 1974 College Life Insurance Company building in Indianapolis consists of a row of strikingly sci-fi...
...Tampa, Florida-based WellCare provides managed-care health plans through government programmes such as Medicare and Medicaid....
...The company opened its first service in Florida this year, which runs between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach and has plans to expand into Orlando and Tampa....
...Data collected by third parties through smartphone apps can include anything from profile information such as age and gender to location details, including data about nearby cell phone towers or Wi-Fi routers...
...Mr Brin sought to reassure that the company was giving “serious thought” to such issues, ranging from the safety of self-driving cars to “fears of sci-fi style sentience” of computers....
...That’s often resulted in clothing with some wicked attitude, from animal prints and shimmering fabrics to ridiculous sci-fi motifs. References to the hedonistic and glam have been overt this season....
...Music and electronic goods retailer JB Hi-Fi was up 5.9 per cent after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock overweight. The Australian dollar was 0.3 per cent stronger against the dollar at $0.7872....
...Miami residents dodged the most dangerous part of the storm after its track shifted west and focused much of the threat on Tampa and St Petersburg....
...DeepMind’s next big challenge will be StarCraft, a sci-fi strategy game involving a struggle between alien species. Players have limited information and must plan, execute and adapt strategies....
Siri-powered hi-fi enters the smart speaker market
...Notable acquisitions have included AllFunds Bank, Arch Capital and FIS, which went from a $2bn to a $35bn company. J P Morgan, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank are the lenders for the deal....
...Roy Price says Amazon is unlikely to deviate from the template it has created of personal, character-driven films: it won’t be getting into the sci-fi or superhero business anytime soon....
...Ganzeer is now working on The Solar Grid, a serialised sci-fi graphic novel....
...AI investing may sound fantastical, but as sci-fi writer William Gibson said: “The future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed.”...
...Last month Apple Music was made available on Sonos wireless speakers, its first partnership with a hi-fi maker. Music is expected to become increasingly important to Apple’s 2016 device launches....
...The new eight-part fictional mystery also shows how brands can get involved, with GE becoming a storyteller and featuring its real-life ultrasound technology in the sci-fi plot....
...FIS said it expected to refinance SunGard’s net debt, which stood at $4.16bn at the end of June and carried a weighted average coupon of 7.1 per cent, according to Bloomberg data....
...“If you gave me a billion dollars to sell as many Spheros as possible, I’d create a sci-fi movie that had a main character as a robot ball,” Mr Berberian says, speaking by phone from Sphero’s HQ in Boulder...
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