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A robot distributes promotional literature calling for a ban on fully autonomous weapons in Parliament Square in London. The ‘Campaign to Stop Killer Robots’ is calling for a pre-emptive ban on lethal robot weapons that could attack targets without any human intervention
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China’s internet: A giant cage (via The Economist)
The fastest growth in internet use is in China’s poorer, more rural provinces, partly because of a surge in users connecting via mobile devices, which now outnumber those connecting from computers. The internet is no longer confined to an urban, educated and relatively well-off public. Most farmers are getting online to listen to music, play mobile games and check the weather, not blog dissent. But even casual users can be drawn into political debates online, and the internet is one place where people can speak their minds and criticise the government relatively freely. April 22, 2013 at 12:53PM
China’s internet: A giant cage (via The Economist)
Read more "China’s internet: A giant cage (via The Economist)"His personal computer is monitored by the government, a service for which he pays $29 a month, and he’s prohibited from using an iPhone or Android device, though he can use a BlackBerry — authorities told him the iPhone had too many capabilities.
Caught in the System, Ex-Hacker Is Stalked by His Past | Threat Level | Wired.com (via iamdanw)
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Read more*Google Glass: like a 1980s game console screen appearing in midair. It’s light, bright, and very toylike.
Read moreImage: Mars in 3D
Left and right eyes of the Navigation Camera (Navcam) in NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took the dozens of images combined into this stereo scene of the rover and its surroundings. The component images were taken during the 166th, 168th and 169th Martian days, or sols, of Curiosity’s work on Mars (Jan. 23, 25 and 26, 2013).
The scene appears three dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. It spans 360 degrees, with Mount Sharp on the southern horizon.
Doom 2099 issue 32, pg16 — Every time I turn on a media engine of some kind, I grow increasingly convinced the above-pictured meeting already happened.
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 