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Offed With Your Head
The Human Nature article on Slate 's cover today is about a military drone-piloting system that looks like a video game but kills real people . You control it with joysticks and buttons. The company that developed it, Raytheon, sees it as a logical progression
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I, LawnBott
If I had a nickel for every time I've read the word "robot" in a headline about new technology, I'd ... well, given the current price of metals, I'd melt down all those nickels, sell the ingredients, and become a very rich man. Journalists and PR people
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