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The Last Frontiers of AI: Can Scientists Design Creativity and Self-Awareness? - Singularity Hub
Singularity Hub
Singularity Hub
Defining the line between human and machine is becoming blurrier by the day as startups, big companies, and research institutions all compete to build the next generation of advanced AI. This arms race is bringing a new era of AI that won't prove its ...
RU Serious? FDA Changes Make Abortion Pill Ten Times More Dangerous for Women - Charisma News
Charisma News
Charisma News
This two-step process of ingesting multiple drugs results in a chemical abortion as Chris Gacek, senior fellow for regulatory policy at Family Research Council, explains: "The first drug is not sufficiently potent to reliably kill the developing embryo ...
School board reorganizes after new member sworn in - California Democrat
California Democrat
California Democrat
Abernathy took middle school students Johnny Garcia, Jacob Smith and Bruce Vines and high school student Dylan Vines to the Missouri Scholastic Championship Chess Tournament at Battle High School in Columbia. The middle school ranked 18 out of 32 ...
Fabiano Caruana scores standout win at US Chess Championships - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
FabianoCaruana takes a win againt @GMHikaru in round 4. #USChessChamps by @CristianChirila https://t.co/82oyqGzn9Q pic.twitter.com/YQDEcKTsTD. — SaintLouis ChessClub (@CCSCSL) April 18, 2016. Nakamura rules this out with the radical 7...h5!
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OPEC Talks in Doha Fail to Start Oil-Production Freeze - Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)
Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)
Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)
... oil producer as international sanctions are lifted. Some have also assumed these chess moves are also an attempt to first scuttle the COP21 climate talks in Paris, and in addition, to sabotage the global clean-energy sector — though clearly, the ...
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Fabiano Caruana scores standout win at US Chess Championships - Telegraph.co.uk
The rivalry between Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana may eventually bear comparison with the struggle for dominance between Bobby Fischer and ...
Fabiano Caruana scores standout win at US Chess Championships - Telegraph.co.uk
The rivalry between Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana may eventually bear comparison with the struggle for dominance between Bobby Fischer and ...
Fabiano Caruana scores standout win at US Chess Championships - Telegraph.co.uk
The rivalry between Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana may eventually bear comparison with the struggle for dominance between Bobby Fischer and ...
The Wide Racial Disparity in Marijuana Arrests - Flagpole Magazine
Flagpole Magazine
That's despite research showing that blacks and whites in the U.S. use marijuana at about the same rate. “This is a small slice of a widespread problem,” Way told Flagpole in an email. “Racial disparities exist nationwide at every .... The youth ...
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Coppell chess prodigy thrives against “incredible” talent in toughest US tournament - Dallas Morning News (blog)
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Grandmasters Varuzhan Akobian (Left) and Jeffery Xiong at the U.S. Chess Championships. (Austin Fuller, Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis). Following the biggest victory of his career, Jeffery Xiong did what any sports-crazy 15-year-old ...
Coppell chess prodigy thrives against “incredible” talent in toughest US tournament - Dallas Morning News (blog)
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Grandmasters Varuzhan Akobian (Left) and Jeffery Xiong at the U.S. Chess Championships. (Austin Fuller, Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis). Following the biggest victory of his career, Jeffery Xiong did what any sports-crazy 15-year-old ...
Coast Chronicles: The Singular Steven Romero - Chinook Observer
Chinook Observer
Chinook Observer
... only the briefest moment to mention developments like Bitcoin (digital currency), superior processing and memory (computers have beaten humans in chess and Go), DNA research and nanotechnology (imagine tiny medical DNA repair devices), and virtual ...
Madison players conquer new titles at State Chess Championship - Madison Record
Madison Record
Madison Record
MADISON – Madison players dominated the 2016 State Scholastic Chess Championship and swept every team award in the primary and elementary school sections. Indian Springs School in Pelham hosted the tournament on March 19-20. “Madison sent a ...
Two From Chennai to Train in UK - The New Indian Express
The New Indian Express
The New Indian Express
Friends Chess Club and Gorakh Chess Academy organised the 1st Vidhbalika Tiruvallur District one day chess tournament at the Angel Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Thiruninravur. Chindhai Jayaraman, president of Chennai Institute of Educational ...
Minnetonka player shares lead at US Chess Championship - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
As the tournament to decide the U.S. chess champion reaches the virtual halfway mark, Minnetonka's Wesley So is in a two-way tie for first place, reflecting a sharp turnaround from his erratic performance last year. So's aggressive play has been ...
Wesley grabs share of lead in US Chess ChampionshipThe Manila Times
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Toy Story: “The Force Awakens” as Nostalgia Gone Terribly Wrong - lareviewofbooks
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lareviewofbooks
If you're thinking a few narrative chess moves ahead, you can foresee a number of ways in which the A- and B-plots might eventually converge. But they never do. Instead, in one of the most appalling and ... But the underlying issue — the question of ...
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FDA Changes Make Abortion Pill Ten Times More Dangerous for Women - LifeNews.com
LifeNews.com
LifeNews.com
This two-step process of ingesting multiple drugs results in a chemical abortion as Chris Gacek, senior fellow for regulatory policy at Family Research Council, explains: “The first drug is not sufficiently potent to reliably kill the developing embryo ...
Wesley grabs share of lead in US Chess Championship - The Manila Times
The Manila Times
Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So notched a fifth-round victory over GM Varuzhan Akobian to gain a share of the lead in the 2016 US Chess Championship being held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis in Missouri, US.
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Artificial Intelligence: What's To Come for EHS… And When? - EHS Today
EHS Today
EHS Today
We've already achieved ANI – that's a program that can beat the most intelligent human at one thing, like a chess game or the board game “Go,” as recently was achieved. What lies ahead is AGI, and it might be approaching us much quicker than we think.
Chess legend Garry Kasparov to play blitz event against America's top stars - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
The 2016 US championships are under way at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis, Missouri. Defending champion Hikaru Nakamura will be challenged by fellow top-10 stars, Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So, with five-time champion Gata ...