This work -- building human capacity in countries in turmoil and expanding systems for information sharing -- is the single most cost-effective approach to atrocity prevention when the true objective is sustainable peace.
Building a human-sized wormhole, for example, would require harnessing vast amounts of peculiar quantum field energy and deploying gravitational stabilizing technology that would need the resources of a cosmic super-civilization.
This young Australian entrepreneur is building the next human-machine interface, a headset that takes orders directly from the brain.
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The programme is selected for its focus on women and out-of-school youth, reaching over 100, 000 people in more than 3, 500 literacy centres, and for its aim of ensuring the right of every individual to literacy and basic education, including the acquisition of knowledge about human rights, reconciliation and peace-building.
They arrived at the Department of Health and Human Services, a giant cinder-block building that stands close to the United States Capitol, and found the mood on the sixth floor rather festive.
But even setting aside that human-based cheating aside, the challenge of building a CAPTCHA that can't be understood by automated software has become far more complex.
"The U.K. has experienced mission creep from its initial goal of supporting the U.S. in countering international terrorism, far into the realms of counter-insurgency, counter-narcotics, protection of human rights and state building, " committee chairman Mike Gapes said.
The Conservatives must choose between simply seeking to regain their reputation for competence or building a prospectus - on Europe, immigration and human rights - for what they would do if allowed to govern alone.
The trick, says human-resources-technology consultant Elaine Orler of Talent Function Group, is building software that can predict a good fit between candidate and employer.
British Labour MEP Derek Vaughan, the author of the report, said there needed to be more co-operation between the EU institutions, such as sharing human resources, building costs and interpretation costs.
Kurnit took the metaphor of pick axes and shovels to heart, and formed The Mining Company, a human-curated web service that was dramatically different than companies like Yahoo that were building huge web catalogues by hand.
Athletes are also barred from human growth hormone, which reputably helps with injury recovery, but they have free use of muscle-building creatine.
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At a time when peace is failing in many societies, UNESCO Director-General stressed the responsibility of all to defend human dignity by promoting quality education for all, building bridges of dialogue for respect and tolerance, and giving all individuals the capacity to fulfil their aspirations.
Building a robot that can stand and walk on two legs like a human is challenging enough -- but what about a robot that swims like a human?
Labor and human-rights groups have been calling on apparel brands and retailers to sign on to the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement, which would establish a system of independent factory inspections whose recommendations would be binding.
The search turned up traces of the building, and then something altogether more exciting: A human skeleton, complete with evidence of battle wounds -- a blow to the head, and an arrow in the back -- and scoliosis, or curvature of the spine.
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