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Artificial Intelligence
No One Is Prepared to Stop the Robot Onslaught. So What Will We Do When It Arrives?
Economists say somewhere between 9 percent and 47 percent of workers in the West could lose jobs to automation over the next two or so decades.
Artificial Intelligence
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Says One of the Top Threats to US Jobs Is “Not Even on Our Radar Screen”
He believes it's too remote to even think about
Cybersecurity
US Plans to Retaliate Against Russia’s Cyber-Hacking Campaign With a Hack that Putin Is Sure to Understand
The U.S. is planning to send “a message” to Moscow.
Modernization
Apple CEO Tim Cook Can Probably Defy the US Government All He Wants and Not Go to Jail
Cook has said he’ll pursue the legal challenge as far as the U.S. Supreme Court.
Emerging Tech
Two Big Labs Step Back From the Most Promising Next-Generation Battery
IBM and the US-funded Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) have ratcheted down or outright abandoned their work on the lithium-air battery.
Emerging Tech
Battery Maker's Fall Fuels Criticism of Federal Energy Investments
The mysterious story of the battery startup that promised GM a 200-mile electric car.
Digital Government
Another Dreamliner Is Forced to Land
A Japan Airlines 787 Dreamliner on the way to Tokyo has landed in Boston.
Modernization
How To Keep Up With Events in Egypt in Real Time Without Getting Swamped
Television feeds and live blogs worth following.
Digital Government
Dreamliners May Fly Again, but Not From Tokyo to Silicon Valley
Dreamliners were sold with the promise of longer travel. Will Boeing be forced to take that back?
Digital Government
For China, a new set of energy pipelines will reduce its hated reliance on the US Navy
China's relationship with Burma may spur a change.
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