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Will South Korea go nuclear? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Mon, 08/15/2016 - 14:20

Will South Korea go nuclear?
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
... in leadership positions, media commentators and editorial writers, leaders and emerging leaders of the business community, experts from South Korean research and academic institutions, and leaders in the South Korean civilian nuclear establishment ...

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Temporary tattoos can let you control gadgets: Gold leaf transfers could be used as trackpads, to transmit data or ... - Daily Mail

Mon, 08/15/2016 - 09:56

Temporary tattoos can let you control gadgets: Gold leaf transfers could be used as trackpads, to transmit data or ...
Daily Mail
Working in collaboration with Microsoft Research, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Media Lab produced the temporary tattoos, whichare called DuoSkin. Using gold leaf, the temporary transfers can be used as touch ...

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LPS gifted mentoring program begins a new school year - Lincoln Journal Star

Mon, 08/15/2016 - 08:55

Lincoln Journal Star

LPS gifted mentoring program begins a new school year
Lincoln Journal Star
(He's the one who entered the school chess tournament as a 4-year-old and came in second.) Does it help him to be learning how to add 10 + 7 when he's already adding three-digit numbers ... Jacobs emphasized that the program is based on extensive ...

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Legal Tech Now Part 2: Intelligent technology the way of the future - Law Times

Mon, 08/15/2016 - 08:12

Law Times

Legal Tech Now Part 2: Intelligent technology the way of the future
Law Times
A growing number of companies and legal tech startups have incorporated intelligent technology or machine learning into their offerings, which provide faster and more efficient ways to do repetitive or time-consuming tasks, such as research, e ...

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Clubs & Meetings: August 16-22 - The Daily Courier

Mon, 08/15/2016 - 03:56

Clubs & Meetings: August 16-22
The Daily Courier
928-775-4567; Yavapai.nau.edu. Doll Friends Doll Club meets 12:30 p.m. 3rd Friday. Joan, 928-445-0422. Drop-in Chess 2 p.m. Saturday at Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St. 928-777-1526. Drumming Circle, meets 7 to 8 ... Northern Arizona ...

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70 Milestones In 70 Years, Happy Independence Day - NDTV

Mon, 08/15/2016 - 00:40

NDTV

70 Milestones In 70 Years, Happy Independence Day
NDTV
Indian Space Research Organization answered its critics with the launch of Asia's first remote sensing satellite IRS-1A in 1988. The following ... Parimarjan Negi became an International Chess Grandmaster in 2006, the youngest Asian ever to do so ...

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Investors get little reward from complexity - The Australian Financial Review

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 21:05

The Australian Financial Review

Investors get little reward from complexity
The Australian Financial Review
A computer beating the best human at this game, with many more combinations and permutations than chess, is a big deal. But it also ... Researching a stock will often take a Forager analyst weeks and the full research runs to dozens of pages. But the ...

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70th Independence Day: 70 facts about INDIA that make the country GREAT - India.com

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 19:40

India.com

70th Independence Day: 70 facts about INDIA that make the country GREAT
India.com
Indian Space Research Organisation, India's space agency, successfully launched Mars Orbiter Mission to probe Mars. India become the fourth country to .... A vast majority of the historian believes that Chess was invented in India. India has 5600 ...

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Newly-developed stretchy touchpad could be worn on arm and used to play games - PerfScience

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 14:35

PerfScience

Newly-developed stretchy touchpad could be worn on arm and used to play games
PerfScience
The research team has developed a touchpad using soft and very stretchable hydrogel that is also being used to make soft contact lenses. ... With the help of the touchpad, the researchers were able to draw a stick figure and play piano and chess.
I'd consider wearing this gel touchpad on my armThe Verge

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'After School Satan Clubs' defined and exposed - OneNewsNow

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 12:38

OneNewsNow

'After School Satan Clubs' defined and exposed
OneNewsNow
Family Research Council's (FRC) Travis Weber says the title of the club is misleading. “From the group's name, one would presume these clubs are teaching about demonic activity,” FRC's Weber insists. “[But] ... According to the United States Supreme ...

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Community Briefs: Walk for peace and AME history in Bryn Mawr - The Delaware County Daily Times

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 12:26

Community Briefs: Walk for peace and AME history in Bryn Mawr
The Delaware County Daily Times
The fair features representatives from more than 15 research facilities and individual researchers to help participants get started with their personal search and answer questions for those who are already involved with research. Archives and research ...

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Community Briefs: Walk for peace and AME history in Bryn Mawr - The Delaware County Daily Times

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 12:26

Community Briefs: Walk for peace and AME history in Bryn Mawr
The Delaware County Daily Times
The fair features representatives from more than 15 research facilities and individual researchers to help participants get started with their personal search and answer questions for those who are already involved with research. Archives and research ...

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Extra-curricular the norm rather than exception at top schools - The Australian Financial Review

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 03:34

The Australian Financial Review

Extra-curricular the norm rather than exception at top schools
The Australian Financial Review
While extra-curricular activities has been claimed as a boost for the qualitative attributes of character, leadership and team-building, there has been extensive quantitative research on the subject too. In the early 1990s the US National Centre of ...

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The Science Behind the Olympic Sport of Fencing - The Wire

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 00:40

The Wire

The Science Behind the Olympic Sport of Fencing
The Wire
Fencing is often referred to as a physical game of chess as it requires both physical prowess and mental ability. The fencing sword is supposedly the second fastest moving object at the Olympics after the marksman's ... There has been very little ...

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NHS prepares for the school year in a technical way - Left Hand Valley Courier

Sat, 08/13/2016 - 17:15

NHS prepares for the school year in a technical way
Left Hand Valley Courier
The iPads will be assigned to the students for the whole school year, and will be used both in the classroom and at home for homework assignments, research and as textbooks. Rauschkolb said that although most people are enthusiastic about the new ...

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How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern ... - Salon

Sat, 08/13/2016 - 16:32

Salon

How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern ...
Salon
The following year the Scientific American published a story about the moral risks of playing chess. The writer advised readers to avoid a chessboard “as they would an adder's nest” because “chess misdirects and exhausts their intellectual energies ...

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AI can excel at medical diagnosis, but the harder task is to win hearts and minds first - EconoTimes

Sat, 08/13/2016 - 06:45

AI can excel at medical diagnosis, but the harder task is to win hearts and minds first
EconoTimes
And IBM's previous generation AI, Deep Blue, became the first AI to best a world champion at chess when it beat Garry Kasparov in a game in 1996 and the entire match when they met again the following year. From a perspective of technological ...

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Good For The Body, Good For The Mind - Hartford Courant

Sat, 08/13/2016 - 02:06

Good For The Body, Good For The Mind
Hartford Courant
"It's becoming more accepted, but there hasn't been enough research in this area to make people confident." He noted in a statement explaining the study that "major depressive disorder is often characterized ... Maddock pointed out that exercise is one ...

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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts

Fri, 08/12/2016 - 17:39

REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR
Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival children's workshop: Opera with Frank Fetta, a Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival children's workshop for ages 4 to 12, is 10 to 10:45 a.m. at Redlands Community Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave., Redlands.

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This AI-powered robot will destroy you in a game of foosball — but it's not unbeatable - Digital Trends

Fri, 08/12/2016 - 15:37

This AI-powered robot will destroy you in a game of foosball — but it's not unbeatable
Digital Trends
Whether it's chess, Go, or TV's Jeopardy!, it seems that computers (and their programmers) aren't willing to stop in their ongoing quest to beat human players at every possible game out there. The latest? A robot developed at the Swiss ... Created as a ...

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