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Shaun King on Colin Kaepernick: He is Enormously Courageous and Has Sparked a Movement Among Athletes

Shaun King, Black Lives Matter activist and the senior justice writer for the New York Daily News, discusses NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who continued his protest Sunday against racial

October 21, 2016
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Category: Justice

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Shaun King: Black Lives Matter is Not a Carbon Copy of Black Panther Party, Our Time is Different

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On the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, some are comparing the party to the Black Lives Matter movement. We get response from Shaun King, a Black Lives Matter activist

October 21, 2016
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Category: Justice

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Microsoft’s Speech Recognition Tech Is Officially as Accurate as Humans

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Microsoft's new speech recognition technology is able to transcribe conversational speech as well as (or even better than) humans. The technology scored a word error rate (WER) of 5.9%, which was lower than the 6.3% WER reported just last month.

October 20, 2016
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Category: Science

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Landing on Mars: Schiaparelli, Dust Storms, and Our Quest to Colonize Space

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Planetary scientist James Shirley has suggested a model that could help predict when Mars' global dust storms are most likely to occur. The winds in the strongest Martian storms top out at about 97 km/h (60 mph), less than half the speed of some hurricane-force winds on Earth.

October 19, 2016
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Category: Science

For the First Time Ever, Physicists Bridged Quantum Computers on a Single Chip

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The possibility of arranging many small quantum computers into dense, powerful parallel networks could be the key to creating multiple-quantum computer systems. Fully functional quantum computing systems would dramatically change everything we do, affecting such sectors as finance, telecommunications, and healthcare.

October 19, 2016
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Scotland is Set to be 100% Zero-Carbon by 2020

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With investing in new and established forms of renewable energy, Scotland sets itself up for independence from fossil fuels. With so many countries achieving or setting sights toward clean energy, pressure may turn up for others currently lagging behind.