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• Opportunity Zones To Fund Erie, PA Smart City Makeover

  23-05-2019 18:32 via technocracy.news
  Opportunity Zones are an investment bonanza for cash-strapped cities to implement Smart City technology. With over 9,000 OZ’s created in just 2 years, estimates run as high as $6 trillion for investable funds. ⁃ TN EditorAdditional security cameras, LED lighting and free public Wi-Fi were introduced to downtown Erie in 2018 as part of a pilot program for what’s known as smart city technology.
  Mayor Joe Schember’s administration and other local officials want to bring the
  
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• DARPA: Funding Wearable Brain-Machine Interfaces

  23-05-2019 17:22 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats at DARPA are intent on creating a non-surgical brain-machine interface as a force-multiplier for soldiers. The research will require “Investigational Device Exemptions” from the Administration. ⁃ TN EditorDARPA has awarded funding to six organizations to support the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, first announced in March 2018. Battelle Memorial Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,
  
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• Experts: The Only Defense Against Killer AI Is Not Developing It

  23-05-2019 17:01 via technocracy.news
  Out of control killer AI in warfare is inevitable because it will become too complex for human management and control. The only real answer is to not developing it in the first place. ⁃ TN EditorA recent analysis on the future of warfare indicates that countries that continue to develop AI for military use risk losing control of the battlefield. Those that don’t risk eradication. Whether you’re for or against the AI arms race: it’s happening. Here’s what that means,
  
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• Climate linked to child gastro: study

  23-05-2019 16:08
  
  Researchers have found there is a correlation between extreme weather and cases of gastro among children caused by a common parasite.
  
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• Banned ozone-depleting CFC-11 gases traced to China

  23-05-2019 06:01
  
  Scientists say industries in China have spewed large quantities of an ozone-depleting gas into the atmosphere in violation of an international treaty.
  
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