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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....
...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...
...almost 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...
...“Reg SCI” was adopted to strengthen the technology infrastructure of the US financial markets....
...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....
...The move represents the first charged violation of rules around computerised trading in US equities markets, known as Regulation SCI, and indicates the Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a tougher...
...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....
...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....
...AI investing may sound fantastical, but as sci-fi writer William Gibson said: “The future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed.”...
...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....
...“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...
...“I cannot read fiction or sci-fi,” he says, in perfect English with Mediterranean inflections. “It stems from an emotional antipathy for lies. I like history. I watch documentaries....
...The regulation, known as Regulation SCI, came a day after Home Depot became the latest flash crash victim in the US equity market....
...To be specific: how it has affected not the fibres or sci-fi styling of clothing itself, but rather the choice of materials and colours and concepts that add up to a collection; the thought process that...
...TCG has also begun production of a Tom Cruise sci-fi film for Universal Pictures, called Oblivion....
...The average age of SCI’s investors is 64....
...Smith’s main enemy, we soon learn, is zombie-ish subhumans, with rabid attack dogs, which come out at night to feed … The sci-fi writer Richard Matheson’s last-man-on-earth story has been goosed up for...
...NBC Universal said that Sparrowhawk’s channels such as the international channels of Hallmark and Diva TV, both heavily dominated by female audiences, were a perfect match for the company’s Sci-Fi, 13th...
...The S&P removed three stocks, PMC Sierra, ADC Telecom and Sanmina-SCI - all technology companies....
...Indeed Kapur has a track record of this kind of thing: in 2005 he set up Virgin Comics LLC, a New-York based company founded by Kapur in partnership with Sir Richard Branson and Indian author Deepak Chopra...
...The talk late on Tuesday was that Time Warner might take a 10 per cent stake in SCi as part of the agreement....
...SCi also said it would raise £60.1m through a share placing at 300p. SCi ended 3.7 per cent higher at 333.5p....
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