The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.

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While the main considerations of the charter are preventing the illegal use of robots and protecting the data that they acquire, the task force set to draft the code have not overlooked programming ethical standards into the automatons of the future.

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In the simplest terms, an API is a set of code conventions which programmers can use to interact with an external data source or web service.

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