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Are we ready for the first real automatons?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/01/2021
» They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence programme in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of robots) in the same city exactly one hundred years ago. The coronavirus pandemic got in the way of that, and it will now only be available free online late next month. Kind of symbolic, really: the future is quite different than what they expected.
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Asia's century, China's year
Asia focus, Published on 30/12/2019
» Way back when 1999 was winding down, pundits were telling us that the Asian Century was about to dawn. That prediction has not yet been fully realised, but few would disagree that 2019 belonged to China. Over the past 12 months, the top headlines have been about the bruising trade war with America, defiant protests in Hong Kong against Beijing's tightening grip, and the rise of a surveillance state that is herding hundreds of thousands into "re-education" camps on its western fringes. Below, the Asia Focus team looks back on a busy and sometimes troubling 2019.
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Milestones
News, Published on 28/01/2018
» Awarded: By Amnesty International to former Bangkok Post reporter Paritta Wangkiat, a trophy for a coup-era story on a fearful village in the North. The story on May 28 of last year showed the fearful state of Ban Kong Phak Ping village after a soldier murdered 17-year-old native son Chaiyaphum Pasae, and the army then concocted a lying, impossible story to try to justify and cover it up.
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Winter in ‘Game of Thrones’, springtime for spinoffs
Associated Press, Published on 17/07/2017
» New York -- Last night (Monday morning in Thailand), the first-to-last season of “Game of Thrones” premiered on HBO as devoted fans gleefully embraced the return of favourite characters, gruesome violence, and the series signature spider web of political intrigue. The houses of Westeros are still going at it -- at least for now, anyway.
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Super cheap tablet: Amazon's Kindle Fire
Jon Fernquest, Published on 30/09/2011
» Priced at half the price of an iPad, Amazon hopes to draw customers to purchase at its website with a new 7-inch screen tablet.
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