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Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle (The Atlantics In Focus)Looking at the world through via Google Earth offers striking images of the diversity of our planet and the impact that humans have had on it. Today's entry is a puzzle -- part 2 in a series (part 1 here), this time offering multiple choices. We're challenging you to figure out where in the world each of the images below is taken. North is not always up in these pictures, and, apart from a bit of contrast, they are unaltered images provided by Google and its mapping partners. So I invite you to have a look at the images below, make your guesses, and see your score at the end. Good luck! [25 images]
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10 Mega-Construction Projects That Could Save the Environment — and the EconomyWe humans are builders. One of the ways we leave a mark on the universe is by creating massive structures that show that some opposable digits have been here.
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The creepiest crawling robot you’ll see all dayRobotic science is intended to create devices that can aid humans in activities. In some case, it’s to help perform tasks that are too difficult or dangerous for humans. In other cases, it’s to relieve us of mundane tasks. Then, there are cases of robots that do little more than invade our nightmares.
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Robot Avatar Transmits Sight, Hearing and Touch To Humans [VIDEO]Who remembers Hugh Jackman's film released this year called "Real Steel". The movie where players controlled robots with fighting gloves and attempted to destroy each other machines? Or even better, what about the movie "Avatar" where the robots were able to transmit sight, hearing and touch to the user? Well guess what? This is no longer fiction but a reality!
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Conversing Robot Could Be Step Closer to Living AndroidsDeveloper David Hanson believes humans and robots can co-exist.
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How Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and AntarcticaAlready under construction, these two projects are saving humans from having to work in two of the most inhospitable environments on the planet: the Sahara Desert, and the South Pole in Antarctica.
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Science Fiction or Fact: Could a Robopocalypse Wipe Out Humans?If Hollywood has it right, machines will one day kill all humans.
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Time to Kill Off Captchas: Scientific AmericanHow the bot-proofing of the Internet is bringing humans down
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Humanity Must Jail Dangerous AI to Avoid Doom, Expert SaysHumans could stave off "Judgment Day" by building a virtual prison that keeps possibly dangerous artificial intelligence trapped.
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51 Percent Of Total Online Traffic is Non-Human | Singularity Hubt probably is no surprise to most that much of online traffic isn’t human. Hacker software, spam, or innocuous data collection from search engines all get their slice of the bandwidth pie. But what might surprise you is exactly how much bandwidth is consumed by humans versus non-humans. It’s pretty much an even split.