More than 400 new "super intelligent public space CCTV cameras" will replace the existing network.

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SETI's search for intelligent life in outer space may be on ice for the time being, but the search for alien planets that may possibly support life of some sort is now being bolstered by a number of new efforts.

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin said only half-jokingly back in 2002 that his company aimed to create the equivalent of the intelligent computer HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but without the bug that resulted in it, you know, killing people.

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Remarkably, Mr. Fund, an allegedly intelligent analyst, manages to blow up his own point within the space of just two sentences and does so in a way that leaves no room for interpretation or disagreement.

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Thanks to this intelligent packaging, the five-seater retains the familiar, generous interior space and luggage space of the B-Class.

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It is long-overdue recognition that intelligent life is not something for us to seek in the outer reaches of space but is abundant right here on earth, under our noses.

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Perhaps the most famous effort in the hunt for alien life is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti), once funded in part by US space agency Nasa, which continues to listen to and look around the cosmos for signs of intelligent civilisations elsewhere.

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