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Sedan en person stoppats i en bil i Malmö i dag och gripits för drograttfylleri gjorde polisen husrannsakan i en kriminell mc-klubbs lokal.

En man hittades på tisdagen död i en vak i en sjö norr om Alingsås.

FN inte den enda vägen ut i världen

Senegalesisk kravallpolis skingrade i dag tusentals demonstranter vid en protest i Dakar.

Åtta medlemmar av totalt elva i besättningen saknas.

En man åtalas i Göteborg för att ha lurat till sig minst 2,5 miljoner kronor genom att teckna lån i elva andra personers namn.

Polisen har än så länge ingen misstänkt för dådet.

Lanxon writes "An in-depth feature in Wired explores the reason science may be failing us. Quoting: 'For too long, we've pretended that the old problem of causality can be cured by our shiny new knowledge. If only we devote more resources to research or dissect the system at a more fundamental level or search for ever more subtle correlations, we can discover how it all works. But a cause is not a fact, and it never will be; the things we can see will always be bracketed by what we cannot. And this is why, even when we know everything about everything, we'll still be telling stories about why it happened. It's mystery all the way down.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

MrSeb writes "Since Slashdot first covered lovotics back in July 2011, its creator — Hooman Samani — has been busy working on a couple of new applications for his fledgling scientific sphere of human-robot love: Kissenger and Mini-Surrogate. Kissenger is a robot with highly-sensitive and motor-actuated lips, which you can use to transmit a kiss to another Kissenger robot (held by a friend or loved one) over the internet. Mini-Surrogate is basically a real-world avatar that adds a physical element to video conferencing. Both are primarily for human-human use, but it's easy to imagine a Kissenger hooked up to an AI or video game. Likewise, the next Elder Scrolls game could come with a Mini-Surrogate, so that you can communicate with your in-game wife while you're knee-deep in fireballed orc."