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Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears

The Verge

As one headline put it : “The Age of Autonomous Killer Robots May Already Be Here.”. These two paragraphs made their way into the mainstream press via a story in the New Scientist , which ran a piece with the headline: “Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for the first time.” And why is this incident in Libya special?

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Why Social Movements Need Stories

Tech Soup

For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips. On September 4, 2014, join other story makers from India, Libya, Kenya, and across Europe to the United States and Canada for an amazing global discussion on Twitter.

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Trump just drove a truck through Congress’s massive tariff loopholes

Fast Company Tech

And before Trump, the national security exemption for tariffs had been used primarily to ban oil imports from countries like Iran and Libya (which quite plausibly did pose a threat to national security). So we better get used to Trump Imposes New Tariffs headlines: There are going to be a lot of them over the next few years.

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