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In Northern Italy, The World’s First Winemaking Robot
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA FUBINE — In the heart of northern Italy's famous wine-producing Montferrat area, a World Heritage Site, a robot named Genesis that looks like a cheap version of BB-8 in the...
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Punctuality Problems — What Drives The Chronically Late
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — In the mid-1980s, legendary French singer Johnny Hallyday crooned, "I'm waiting for you, I'm waiting for you …" Dedicated to the umpteenth love of his life, the...
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Artifical Intelligence: How To Stop AI From Destroying The Human Race
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — When Stephen Hawking warns about the end of the world because humans aren't able to keep up with the rapid progress of artificial intelligence, people...
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Terrorism And Tourism: Red Alerts On World Tourism Map
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — Five years after the Arab Spring, our blue planet has more and more zones turning red and orange. These are two of the three colors used by the French...
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Call To Arms For Cyber War, Trying To Poach Private Sector Recruits
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — It's hard to ignore. About 18,000 billboards, along with advertisements on the Internet, in newspapers and magazines, are promoting "cyber" positions in...
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Hunting Auroch DNA To Rebreed Extinct Beast From Cave Paintings
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST A tall, heavy beast with long, forward-curving horns faced down a smaller bull. Its head was held high as if in challenge. The smaller animal seemed to recoil in...
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A New Way To Track Photographic Footprints On The Internet
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA TURIN — Each and every one of the 350 million photos shared every day on Facebook, not to mention those posted on Twitter and Instagram, leaves a "digital footprint,"...
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Russia Aims To Build A Base On The Moon — With 3D Printers
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT MOSCOW — Piles of lunar rocks and soil, plus a mountain of photographs, are the trophies inherited by scientists in the aftermath of the Cold War's so-called "Space Race."...
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Incalculable? The Human Quest To Conceive Of The Largest Number
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -OpEd- LYON — Those following the news know that Google technology recently defeated one of the world's greatest Go champions. To illustrate how significant this achievement...
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The Robot Revolution Is Underway, But Are We Ready?
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — AlphaGo's recent victory over Lee Sedol, one of the world’s best Go players, has people once again debating the merits and potential perils of intelligent machines....
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That Day In Brazil When WhatsApp Didn’t Work
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO SAO PAULO — In the garden next to a shopping mall on São Paulo's Paulista Avenue, 22-year-old vendor Camila Lima is taking a break to call her mother, who lives on...
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Yoga, Solar And Eye Scans: A Video Tour Of World’s Most Innovative Airports
Worldcrunch.com / TAKE 5 Airline passenger traffic is not slowing down, registering worldwide growth of 6.8% in 2015. The growing demand means more opportunity but also more competition, and airports...
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China’s Robot Industry And The Trap Of State Subsidies
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER -Analysis- BEIJING — An in-depth report recently published by this newspaper, titled Robot Industry Development, Great Leap Forward-Style depicted the sector's...
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Big Data Will Change How We Borrow Money
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Imagine securing a loan in just minutes — without having to visit a bank, fill out complicated paperwork, sit down with a loan officer. What if it could all be done...
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At A Texas Body Farm, Studying The Decay Of Donated Corpses
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG HUNTSVILLE — In the shadows of pine trees, a woman in a white overalls leans over the dead body of a fat, naked man. She brushes his cheek with a cotton swab, as...
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Applied Mathematics To Design The Perfect Future City
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS BOSTON — Scientists are seeking to apply the complexity of urban systems into an equation, in the same way as with atomic structures or galaxies. The objective is...
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Mao’s Aqueduct: Biggest Water Project Ever Rises In China
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG JINAN — The Yellow River is nothing but a brown-grey mass of moving water, bordered by banks of rubbish, and is one of the most polluted rivers in China. It's a...
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This Kazakh Hacker Wants To Destroy The Academic Publishing Establishment
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — Formally speaking, Alexandra Elbakyan, 27, lives in Almaty, her hometown in Kazakhstan. But in reality, she probably lives somewhere in Russia. Her life and her...
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Ours Is The Age Of Plastic, And It Needs To End
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTA — What will survive of us is love, the poet Philip Larkin wrote in 1956. Little did the Englishman know that what would really survive us, plastic, was...
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Wooden Skyscrapers? A New Market Rising In Eiffel’s Iron Shadow
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Canadian architect Michael Green thinks the sky's the limit for buildings made with wood. And it was in Paris, with a project called the Baobab Tower, that the...
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