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Dr Bostrom says there is a real gap between the speed of technological advance and our understanding of its implications.
BBC: How are humans going to become extinct?
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The speed of the rebel advance, and the fact that they succeeded in pushing past the South African troops stationed in Bangui suggests they are well-armed, and likely benefiting from the support of neighboring nations.
NPR: Split Appears In C. African Rebel Coalition
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To speed things along, banks and even shops will probably receive lots of euros in advance, so that cash machines and tills can spout the new currency exclusively from January 1st 2002.
ECONOMIST: The euro��s in-and-out club
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Conscious of the speed at which habitat is being lost, zoos are trying to avert dangers in advance.
ECONOMIST: From zoo cage to modern ark
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Now it's become an obsession of the financial industry, to serve the needs of high-speed automated trading, where computers arbitrage based on knowing the market news an extra millisecond in advance.
WSJ: A Dive Into the Digital Deep
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Not surprisingly for a company that makes phones and tablets, the hearing aid wouldn't always have to do the heavy lifting, either: iOS devices could handle some of the on-the-fly conversion, and pre-recorded speech could receive advance treatment to speed up the process.
ENGADGET: Apple seeks patent for hearing aids that deliver speech at an even keel