2014 could be a landmark year for an amazing medical technology: human organs built by 3D printers.
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UK ISP filters designed to block pornography are letting hardcore material slip through the net while preventing access to sex education, addiction and women’s abuse charity sites.
Nearly 60 years after his death, Alan Turing, the British mathematician regarded as one of the central figures in the development of the computer, received a formal pardon from Queen Elizabeth II on Monday for his conviction in 1952 on charges of homosexuality, at the time a criminal offense in Britain.
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best. Those of us who follow these incentives are being entirely rational – I have followed them myself – but we do not always best serve our profession’s interests, let alone those of humanity and society.
Je ne voudrais surtout pas verser dans un populisme de bon aloi mais il ne m’était jamais venu à l’esprit que l’une des nombreuses missions de l’Etat consistait à verser des émoluments à un paparazzi planqué dans des buissons situés en hauteur de la piscine d’Emmanuelle Beart afin de s’assurer qu’elle maîtrise à la perfection la technique du plongeon en canard.
L’ontophanie numérique résulte en somme dans l’ensemble des actions de l’usager invité par une série de stimulations sensorielles à l’immersion dans la navigation : notre environnement perceptif s’est mis à jour en fonction des nouveaux appareils – logiciels et interfaces – et il ne s’agit pas seulement d’objets de perception différents mais du changement de l’acte de la perception lui-même.
Secret documents reveal more than 1,000 targets of American and British surveillance in recent years, including the office of an Israeli prime minister, heads of international aid organizations, foreign energy companies and a European Union official involved in antitrust battles with American technology businesses.
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