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Phase one of world's first commercial spaceport is now 90 per cent completed - in time ... - 0 views

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    The 1,800-acre Spaceport America site, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is the home base for Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's most ambitious business venture yet.
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Software tricks people into thinking it is human - tech - 06 September 2011 - New Scien... - 0 views

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    Cleverbot tricked 59 per cent of people that they were talking to another human - suggesting it has passed the Turing test
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Study shows that one 'super-corporation' pulls the strings of the global economy | Mail... - 0 views

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    A University of Zurich study 'proves' that a small group of companies - mainly banks - wields huge power over the global economy. The study is the first to look at all 43,060 transnational corporations and the web of ownership between them - and created a 'map' of 1,318 companies at the heart of the global economy. The study found that 147 companies formed a 'super entity' within this, controlling 40 per cent of its  wealth. All own part or all of one another. Most are banks - the top 20 includes Barclays and Goldman Sachs. But the close connections mean that the network could be vulnerable to collapse
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