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HAL 9000 Papercraft Will, At Some Point, Cut You
7:00AM Mark Wilson | We know. He certainly looks cute and harmless. But sooner or later, the HAL 9000 (freely printable papercraft version) could get a small, unintentional dent in the side. “I’ll just toss him in the shredder for another,” you say out of earshot from the harmless little paper computer. Or so you thought… [Mr. Hal 9000 via Botropolis] More »
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NASA Working On a Robotic Space Psychologist, Astronauts in Grave Danger
9:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | NASA is set to begin work next month in Boston on a four-year, $US1.74 million project called the Virtual Space Station. The project is supposed to create a program that can independently counsel depressed astronauts by supplying solutions to their typed insecurities. AP writer Jay Lindsay insists that it’s nothing like HAL 9000, and he’s totally right: that was a movie, and this is terrifyingly real. More »
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