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By Teppei Kasai and Yoshiyasu Shida — Reuters

(Reuters) — Japan’s SoftBank Corp said on Thursday it will start selling human-like robots for personal use by February, expanding into a sector seen key to addressing labour shortages in one of the world’s fastest ageing societies.

The robots, which the mobile phone and Internet conglomerate envisions serving as baby-sitters, nurses, emergency medical workers or even party companions, will sell for 198,000 yen ($1,900) and are capable of learning and expressing emotions, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son told a news conference.

A prototype will be deployed this week, serving customers at SoftBank mobile phone stores in Japan, he added. The sleek, waist-high robot, named Pepper, accompanied Son to the briefing, speaking to reporters in a high-pitched, boyish voice.

“People describe others as being robots because they have no emotions, no heart. For the first time in human history, we’re giving a robot a heart, emotions,” Son said.

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By Dante D’Orazio — The Verge

Eugene Goostman seems like a typical 13-year-old Ukrainian boy — at least, that’s what a third of judges at a Turing Test competition this Saturday thought. Goostman says that he likes hamburgers and candy and that his father is a gynecologist, but it’s all a lie. This boy is a program created by computer engineers led by Russian Vladimir Veselov and Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko.

That a third of judges were convinced that Goostman was a human is significant — at least 30 percent of judges must be swayed for a computer to pass the famous Turing Test. The test, created by legendary computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, was designed to answer the question “Can machines think?” and is a well-known staple of artificial intelligence studies.

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In the black holes’ pull. Astronomers discover that magnetic fields in the vicinity of supermassive black holes can equal the force of gravity http://www.mpg.de/8256277/magnetic-fields_supermassive-black-holes

In the black holes’ pull Astronomers discover that magnetic fields in the vicinity of supermassive black holes http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140609021814&#4…of-gravity

At the heart of the antimatter mystery http://www.mpg.de/8242689/proton_magnetic_moment

“At the heart of the antimatter mystery” by @SciCzar on @LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140609022248&#4…er-mystery

Change of perspective in the electronic landscape http://www.mpg.de/8242301/bismuth_energy-distribution

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Nanosats are go! Small satellites: iny satellites are changing the space business http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140607205338&#4…e-business

Harvard researchers find switch that causes mature liver cells to revert back to stem cell-like state http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140607210737&#4…like-state

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I am preparing a 1-day The Gravity Modification Workshop (more details here) and expect to conduct this workshop in the August-September 2014 time frame. I would like to gauge interest so if you are interested in attending pleased complete this short QuickSurveys survey https://www.quicksurveys.com/s/p6K3J informing me of your interest. This survey ends June 22 2014.

Workshop details are as follows:

Title: The Gravity Modification Workshop

Presenter: Benjamin T Solomon

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The Black Bible to Extreme Omniscient Womb-to-Tomb Risk Management as per the White Swan Treatise Synthesis!: The White Swan’s Beyond Eureka and Sputnik Moments: How To Fundamentally Cope With Risks
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By Noah Robischon — Fast Company

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Imagine a future in which wireless electricity makes everyday products more convenient, reliable, and environmentally friendly. http://www.witricity.com/

Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-fasting-triggers…ation.html

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One may be warm enough to have liquid water http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140604213027&#4…iscover-tw

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