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Seriously, What Could Go Wrong?: United States Military To Be 30% Robotic By 2020

The U.S. military has a goal -- that it's 30% robotic in twelve years. Why? Because robots don't feel pain, and when they die you just solder them back together or build a bitchin' chair out of the scrap metal. While advances in robot technology will probably result in more radical robot designs and allow for the military's goal of a 30-percent robotic force, there will always be human involvement in the control process. Researcher Bill Smart had this to say about our future robot army: "It's a...

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Five Lightweight Apps for Web Trainers and Consultants

Teaching people how to use new tools on the internet is hard. Learning through experience is the most effective method, but it's slow. More and more of us are finding ourselves teaching other people how to use new web apps and services - sometimes professionally. Though you, elite readers, might consider getting excited about apps that are a year or two old to be painfully behind the times, the fact is that there is huge demand for training in use and application of web apps old and new. Below w...

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Everybody's talking about | Women in the middle

Some say that during a downturn, there is a flight to the high-end: buy fewer of the more expensive pieces that will stand the test of time and do away with impulse fashion purchases. There is also a rush to...

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Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles

"Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that's all I care to share about myself - will you be my friend?" Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications great each other. It's not very useful or inspiring. Communication works better when you have a good idea who it is you're talking to. How can new online services get users to describe themselves, though? Bellow, we discuss some of our favorite ways it's being done well. We hope you'll share y...

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Carriage Trail, Talking Treasure win at Saratoga

This post is taken from: Official Sports Betting.com Carriage Trail, Talking Treasure win at Saratoga Carriage Trail won the $84,250 De La Rose Stakes, and Talking Treasure took the co-featured $81,750 Fleet Indian Stakes on Wednesday at Saratoga Race Course. Both races were restricted to fillies and mares. Carriage Trail, a 5-year-old mare ridden by Edgar Prado [...]

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Hopefully, the start of a definitive list of things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly.

As plans for our student speaker conference are ramping up, we've been talking about ways to recruit excellent speakers to the project (this is where we're trying to host a university centric TED talks sort of thing). One idea, was to make some kind of video public service announcement that would direct people towards the application process as well as have a bit of web (as in hopefully viral) fun. Anyway, I thought it might make an interesting slideshow to present things that you definitely sh...

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Read an Early Excerpt of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

When not hearing buzz about The Lace Reader, the other book everyone is talking about (and I am about to get my hands on) is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. This epistolary novel tells the story of a...

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Voters greet Obama trip with praise, skepticism

Calculated political ploy. Timely foreign outreach. A dash of each? Ask voters across the country about Barack Obama's image-packed week of foreign travel and you'll get a mix of admiration, suspicion, even a couple of bored shrugs. Dale Whitesell, 54, a teacher and registered Democrat of McLean, Va., poses for a photograph after expressing her views to The Associated Press on the upcoming presidential election in Tysons Corner, Va., Washington's northern Virginia suburbs, Wednesday, July 23, 20...

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'Gossip Girl' will launch new racy promos (OMG)

"Gossip Girl" will get people talking. At least, that seems likely as the CW network brings to a boil its new campaign for the sexy prep-school soap. In this image released by The CW, a print advertisement for "Gossip Girl," is shown. In this image released by The CW, a print advertisement for "Gossip Girl," is shown.

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From New London to Orient Point

Yesterday I took a ferry from New London, CT to Orient Point, NY on what was a hazy, hot and humid summer afternoon. These days there is cell phone coverage across the Long Island Sound so I spent the trip talking on my cell phone and taking memories.

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