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...This moment is the Kitty Hawk of androids," Hanson says. "We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention." Can conscious robots...
...none exists is another. "We are starting from scratch," the head of Somalia's new government, Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi, told me in an interview in Mogadishu. Given Somalia's penchant for clan warfare and inhospitableness toward foreign armies--just go out and rent a copy of Black Hawk Down--it's tempting for Western policymakers to wash their hands and wish Gedi luck. But Somalia's strife has repercussions beyond its borders. The country is victim to the worst ravages of man and nature. Instability there has the potential to engulf the entire Horn of Africa...
...What might be the effect of the Open using Hawk-Eye electronic line-calling technology for the first time...
...Open and numerous events since, this is the best innovation in tennis since yellow balls. As well as appealing to everyone's sense of justice, viewers no longer have to watch players fume and sulk like prima donnas when a close call goes against them. Fears that Hawk-Eye would hold up play excessively have proved unfounded: it's quick, reliable and altogether satisfying...
...year has brought with it a clear message that the Bush-Rumsfeld misadventure of going solo into Iraq needs reexamination. As Saddam Hussein’s coffin, strapped to a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter, traveled across the desert, the Pentagon reported that U.S. deaths in Iraq have reached a new high of 3,000 since the conflict began in 2003. Although President Bush has held intensive strategic meetings with his new Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, and other top security and army officials, his response to the report of the respected Iraq Study Group (ISG) has yet to materialize...