Singularity Headlines

HEADLINES today: 24-hours of June 24-25, 2014. (over two months ago when I started this)
1. Japan unveils robot newscaster ...
2. Robot valet to park cars at German airport... [ self driving forklift.]
3. Professor of robotics has a humanoid version of himself which he sends overseas to give lectures. "It cuts down on my business trips," he said.
4. Recent estimates indicate that 97% plus of companies have suffered some form of serious cyber intrusion, and that it takes on average anywhere between 7 and 8 months to discover that an attack has occurred.
5. New androids at Tokyo museum look, sound eerily human.     [ eerily, really? how about wonderfully?]
6. Tech startup, Cruise, offers autonomous driving package for $10,000
7. Skyhigh Networks Raises $40M to Make the Cloud More Secure
8. Google, Facebook, and Micro$oft are building large data center facilities in the state of Iowa.
9. 10,000 assembly-line robots to help build iPhone 6.
10. Army tests robots in the field
11. Here's Why Robots Could Humanize War
    * They do not have to worry about self-preservation, and therefore would not have to fire upon targets they simply suspect pose a threat. "There is no need for a 'shoot first, ask-questions later' approach, but rather a 'first-do-no-harm' strategy can be utilized instead."
    * They can process more information than a human before having to use deadly force.
    * Physical and mental damage from actions of the battlefield would have no impact on a robot without anger or frustration.
        - See more at:   http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/05/15/Here-s-Why-Robots-Could-Humanize-War#sthash.LhIOO12b.dpuf
12. The National Science Foundation has committed $10 million to build robots that will act as "personal trainers" for children, in an effort to influence their behavior and eating habits. Will ultimately "deploy" robots into homes and schools to teach English as a second language, and encourage kids to exercise.
        http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spending-10-million-to-build-robot-companions-for-children/

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More Recent Headlines

• Elon Musk, the Tesla and Space-X founder, says Robots Could Be More Dangerous Than Nukes ...   Aug 8
• Pew Research Report on Future of Jobs . . .   Aug 8   (good, in depth, 66 pages)
• IBM develops computer chip that 'functions like human brain' ...   Aug 9
• Robots Will Take Over More Jobs Than They Create...   Aug 9
• Trading robots 'cause stock market tsunamis'...   Aug 13
• Robot hitch hikes across Canada ...   Aug 15
• By 2025, sexbots will be commonplace ...   Aug 15
• Thousand-strong robot swarm throws shapes ...   Aug 15
• Instant language translator for iOS and Android ...   Aug 16
• Doctors to be replaced by technology ...   Aug 17
• Navy's unmanned X-47B operated seamlessly with manned aircraft aboard Roosevelt (CVN 71). ...   Aug 17
• IQs decline : have humans reached their intellectual peak ...   Aug 21
• Robots could murder us out of KINDNESS unless they are taught the value of human life ...   Aug 22
• Cyber Command continues to expand ...   Aug 23.   Yet remains a stepchild of NSA.
• Market watchdog warns on danger of cyber attack in "black swan" event, 40m shopper's credit card data stolen.
• 'Robo Brain' will teach robots everything from Internet ...   Aug 25
• Mixed Genes: 1 child, 3 parents! ...   Aug 26
• Driverless car takes test run through DC ...   Aug 26
• Robots to teach in Abu Dhabi school ...   Aug 27
• Neuroscientists say possible to overwrite bad memories ...   Aug 27
• Feds to mandate cars broadcast location, direction and speed?   Aug 27
• Govt exploring tech that can remotely control vehicles ...   Aug 27
• Killer robots a small step away and must be outlawed, says top UN official ...   Aug 28
• US military developing brain implants to restore memory ...   Aug 29

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Headlines After the Class

• Robots Help Autistic Kids Learn Life Skills   Sept 01
• China to mass produce 5,000 industrial robots annually. ...   Sept 02
• Humanoid robot "Pepper" to hit stores in Japan, targeted at families and the elderly, $1,900. ...   Sept 02
• Japan Unveils Fastest 2-legged robot in world, somersauls, too. ...   Sept 02
• Robots deliver meals to patients in super hospital...   Sept 03
• Sheriff asks county to approve police robot ...   Sept 03
• Charleston police department to buy robot ...   Sept 03
• Burger robot cranks out 360 per hour...  Sept 4
• Scientists attempt brain-to-brain communication...   Sept 5
• Robots to replace chemical, steel workers in China...   Sept 6
• Self-Driving Cadillac ! Hands off wheel ...   Sept 7
• Robot Walks Through Acid, Fire, Ice...   Sept 8
• Humans less superior than we think...   Sept 9
• Japan plans robot revolution...   Sept 10
• Robot capable of handling unfamiliar objects unveiled, loads dishwasher...   Sept 11
• Robot Race : SKorea Looks to Blow Past Japan, Europe, USA...   Sept 12
• Mankind undergoing major 'evolutionary transition' , different species of human by 2050...   Sept 12
• Cars that drive themselves starting to chat with each other...   Sept 13
• BOOK: Thinking machines 'most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced'...   Sept 13
• Humanoid Robot Nao Learns to Drive Its Own Car   Sept 17
• 'Ethical' Robot Makes Deadly Decisions...   Sept 18
• Tiny Implants Could Give Humans Self-Healing Superpowers ...   Sept 18
• Humanoid Learns to Fly Airplanes...  Sept 19
• Gene manipulation of misquetoes to breed out speading of disease. ...   Sept 20
• Smart restaurant tables combine entertainment and service ...   Sept 21
• Tiny implants could give humans self-healing superpowers ..   Sept 22
• By 2020, our day-to-day lives could be controlled and run by digital versions of ourselves. ...   Sept22
• Artificial Intelligence Could Wipe Out Humanity... -- Elon Musk
• Google’s New Computer with Human-Like Learning Abilities will Program Itself.   Oct 29
• Nestle will enlist a thousand humanoid robots to help sell its coffee makers at electronics stores ...   Oct 29
• Scientists using stem cells said they had built the world's first "mini-stomachs"   Oct 29
• Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Average High School Senior in part one of ten year goal to qualify for college enterence.   Nov 4.
• Planned layoffs surge 68% in October.   Nov 6
• 50% of today's occupations will no longer exist in decade...   Nov 7.
• Scientists Predict Robot Brains to Match Humans in 25 Years...   Nov10.
• Artificially Intelligent Travel Agent Will Book Vacations In Near Future...   Nov10.
• Hospital robot delivers specimens, surgical equipment...   Nov 10.
• Stephen Hawkin is terrified of artificial intelligence  -- Nov 14 - 4:05. When a man on a street corner (or Jim) warns of AI, I dismiss it, but when Steven Hawkin says something, I must be concerned.
• Life-like robots prepared for mass commercialization   -- Nov 20
      Will replace receptionists, pop stars, sex dolls ; Humans taking as partners ; Clones of dead loved ones... Demos now ; common in 10 years.
• Robot trucks do the jobs Australians shun.   Nov 21 . Automation is about letting machines do the dirty, dangerous work.
• Germ-zapping robot could fight Ebola and other deadly viruses   -- Nov 22
• On the brink of creating artificial life : scientists digitize the brain of a worm and place it inside a robot.   -- Nov 27
• Learning To Use Robots To Face Ebola   -- Nov 29
• Amazon warehouse 1,500 people and 3,000 robots gather and ship 700,000 items a day.   -- Dec 1 . Amazon has 15,000 wheeled robots world wide.
• Hawkin : It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate,"   -- Dec 2 . And human race superseded.
• NYT: Are Humans Necessary?   -- Dec 4 . A woman's quide to robotics
• PROF: First discovered aliens -- will be robots...   -- Dec 5 . Humanity is already heading in this post-biological direction.
• Robots could eliminate need for most lawyers ...   -- Dec 6 . Even better if before that.
• Live forever : create your 'digital alter ego'   -- Dec 7 . 3D version of your personality will interact after you pass away.
• Pfizer bets on gene therapy as technology comes of age   -- Dec 8.
• Spark of Life : Scientists in lab able to simulate how life on Earth could have started...   -- Dec 8.
• As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep Up...   -- Dec 15 .
• How computers will replace your doctor...   -- Dec 16 .
• Amputee able to control prosthetic limbs through thought.   -- Dec 19 .
• Personal robot provides health, security, supervision, and walks the dog.   -- Dec 20 . Luna retails for $1,500
• What Jobs Will the Robots Take ? 47% of jobs considered at "high risk."   -- Dec 23 . manufacturing, clearical, retail, and transportation.
  Link to 2015 headlines.

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Is Humanity Worth Saving?

• Homeland Security predicts domestic violence in the next year
• Judge rules Ten Commandments monument must go
• Can big brother be worse than this
• Quarantine centre for Ebola patients attacked and looted in Liberia : http://bbc.in/1tcg1AW
• More than 1,100 laboratory bioterror lab mishaps cloaked in secrecy. more
• 15 people shot in 8 hours in NYC ... ( And then there is Chicago.)
• Syria death toll from civil war tops 191,000, United Nations says
• Mexican drug dead toll 50,000 since 2006, could be double that.
• First Superman comic book fetches $3.2M at auction.
• School districts load up on 'free' military equipment : grenade launchers, M16 rifles, armored vehicles.
• Members of a health education team are killed in cold blood by the villagers in Guinea.
• Law Lets I.R.S. to Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
• Website Is Streaming From 73,000 Private Cameras... [using default password from baby monitor, camera cams ]
• Doomsday Pope warns man's greed will destroy world...
• The world could eventually become uninhabitable for humans [from air polution].
• No Such Thing as American Dream... 'America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England'... [hard work leads to more opportunities is an illusion]
• Illinois Just Made it a Felony to Record the Police.
• Argentine court : Captive orangutan has human right to freedom ; chimpanzee ruled not a person in N.Y. court. What will a robotic court rule humans to be?

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