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First let me just say that no, robots will not replace journalists. Robots will likely only replace jobs with particularly low cognitive loads. So, maybe press release re-writing bloggers, but not thinking, analyzing, interviewing, friendly journalists. In an on-going experiment called “My Boss is a Robot,” an alliance of journalists and computer scientists aim to combine the distributed human brainpower of Amazon’s small-task outsourcing engine,Mechanical Turk, with a robot boss pre-programmed to absorb a myriad of discrete human-accomplished tasks into something resembling the work of a single person....

Incompetent isn’t a word you’d normally use to describe one of the most financially successful human beings in history, but here we are. Yes, I’m talking about billionaire business magnate Elon Musk. On the one hand, Musk has a brilliant once-in-a-generation intellect. He’s the architect and driving force behind several incredibly successful tech companies ranging from PayPal to SpaceX. Musk is the epitome of abig-picture personwith the vision and gumption to take far-fetched, pie-in-the-sky ideas and ground them in reality....

While many celebrated the potential emissions reductions achieved during a year and a half of life in quarantine, the summer of 2021 alone has seen wildfires raging across the US Pacific Northwest, Turkey, and Greece, and extreme flooding across Germany, China, Uganda, and India, just to name a few. On July 14th the European Commission published a new set ofclimate changeproposalsaimed at bringing the bloc closer to its 2030 goal to reduce emissions by 55% (from its 1990 levels) and eventually become completely climate neutral by 2050....

We’ve heard a lot of buzz about therumoredsmaller, cheaper “iPhone Nano”, but a new report fromDigitimes, claims that the fifth generation iPhone may be equipped with a 4-inch screen rather than the current 3.5 inches. The component suppliers noted that the production lines for Apple’s next generation iPhone have begun testing, and Apple is interested in expanding the screen size to 4-inches to support the tablet PC market as the vendor only has a 9....

Will the UK’s housebuilding algorithm join the government’s growing AI graveyard? British councils recently joined exam boards and immigration department in ditching their algorithms Meet the planning algorithm The British government recently introduceda new formulafor calculating where new housing is built. But planning consultancy Litchfields today claimed the algorithm would lead to more homesbeing constructed in the countryside and suburbs — typically Tory-voting areas — and fewer in towns and city centers....