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Hawking Sounds Alarm Over AI's End Game
2014-12-05 16:34:50| TechNewsWorld
Artificial intelligence eventually could bring about mankind's demise, according to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. "Once humans develop [full] artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate," he said. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."
Railroads sound alarm ahead of Chicago gridlock redux
2014-11-25 17:25:16| Railroads - Topix.net
Chicago is no easy fix. Projects, such as an overpass opened last month in the Englewood neighborhood that separates Norfolk Southern freight trains from local trains, are expensive and complicated.
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UN Climate Report Rings Alarm, Offers Guidance
2014-11-02 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The most sophisticated, comprehensive and succinct scientific account of the accelerating impacts of human activity on the world around us, from warming and rising oceans to the growing toll of heat stroke, was published Sunday by a United Nations panel. The picture that emerged from the 116-page synthesis of three blockbuster climate change reports was alarming. "The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen,' it reminds us, warning that...
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Scientists sound the alarm in climate change report
2014-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels is already affecting life on every continent and in the oceans, and the window is closing rapidly for governments to avert the worst damage expected to occur later this century, scientists warned in one of the loudest alarms yet sounded by the international scientific community. The report, to be issued Sunday, arrives as international negotiators prepare to meet in Lima, Peru, in December to establish parameters for an eventual agreement on...
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France, US lead voices of alarm at climate report
2014-11-02 11:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: France and the United States headed a chorus of alarm on Sunday after a major UN report on climate change warned that the Earth was on track for potentially disastrous global warming. France, which is hosting a UN conference in December 2015 that is supposed to seal cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, said the report required "immediate, all-round mobilisation." "The message from this report is clear," the foreign ministry and environment ministry said in a joint statement. "The 2015 Paris agreement...
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