“It is no exaggeration to say that this [50 teraflop] machine will give both the U.S. scientific community and industrial sector a significant competitive advantage over the rest of the world,” said Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. “It will serve to revitalize the U.S. effort in high-end computing.”

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The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence is launching their 3 Laws Unsafe campaign that will parallel the release of I, Robot, a film based on Asimov’s short stories where he introduced the 3 Laws of Robotics.

A system that projects light beams directly into the eye could change the way we see the world. (from BBC)

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