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I'll note first that I am an extreme skeptic of technological singularities and world conquering robot minds, but— Why would you assume that humanistic ethics should coincide with high intelligence?

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected four candidates to form the basis of future data-protection technologies to resist attack by quantum computers, the US science agency ...

Four newly announced projects led by Sandia National Laboratories aim to advance quantum computing technology, according to an announcement from the laboratories. The efforts include: a quantum ...

A new breakthrough from researchers at Rice University could unlock the genetic components that determine several human diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's disease affected 57 ...

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