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Published on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 by Agence France Presse

Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP.
“They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead [...]

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Air was code-named “apollo” during its development
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Vista was released to consumers on 30 January, 2007

Microsoft is warning Windows Vista users that a forthcoming service pack for the operating system may stop some third-party programs working. The software giant has released a list of programs that may be broken by the SP1 update for Vista.
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Phone makers’ own scientists discover that bedtime use can lead to headaches, confusion and depression
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor

Radiation from mobile phones delays and reduces sleep, and [...]

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Author:  Nick Langley What is it?
Rails is not the only framework for Ruby, and Ruby is not the only language which uses Rails. Rails has also been ported to Javascript by a team at Google (Rhino on Rails), to PHP (Akelos) and most recently, by the BBC, to Perl (Perl on Rails).
But Ruby on Rails [...]

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By Iain Haddow
BBC NewsThe scientist who pioneered genetic fingerprinting says he’s concerned that the personal data of innocent people is being wrongly held by police.
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys told the BBC the retention of thousands of innocent people’s DNA raised “significant ethical and social issues”.
He was speaking [...]

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ISPs could face piracy sanctions

The proposals are part of a strategy on the creative industries

Internet service providers must take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads or face legal sanctions, the government has said. The proposal is aimed at tackling the estimated 6m UK broadband users who [...]

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