An anonymous reader writes: A series of contests at Dartmouth College will pit humans versus machines. Both will produce literature, poetry and music which will then be judged by humans who will try and determine which selections were computer made. "Historically, often when we have advances in artificial intelligence, people will always say, 'Well, a computer couldn't paint a sunset,' or 'a computer couldn't write a beautiful love sonnet,' but could they? That's the question," said Dan Rockmore, director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth.

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Cultural body confers world heritage status on sites seen representing Japanese oppression after Seoul lifts opposition.

Cultural body confers world heritage status on sites seen representing Japanese oppression after Seoul lifts opposition.

Leader of Catholic church begins week-long tour of Spanish-speaking continent, with other stops in Bolivia and Paraguay.

Leader of Catholic church begins week-long tour of Spanish-speaking continent, with other stops in Bolivia and Paraguay.

Siegfried Muresan, a member of the European Parliament discusses the economic crisis in Greece.

Foreign ministry says some Chinese tourists have recently been "attacked and disturbed" during anti-China protests.

Foreign ministry says some Chinese tourists have recently been "attacked and disturbed" during anti-China protests.

destinyland writes: On a day when America looks back on those who came before, Wired is remembering a pioneering technology magazine named Mondo 2000 — and sharing video of its editors' legendary appearance on a mid-90s PBS series, "The Internet Cafe". When its host questioned them about cyberpunk, they turned the interview into an ironic media stunt by providing a live, sneering cyberpunk model named Malice (wearing a fake neural implant on his head), as the words "real cyberpunk" jokingly flashed on the bottom of the screen. "At a time when few people outside academia had access to the internet, Mondo 2000 was many a wannabe hacker's introduction to the online world," Wired remembers fondly, even acknowledging that they'd "borrowed" their own magazine's design motif from Mondo 2000, in those early years before ISPs started popularizing consumer internet access.

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is a ready to use Codio box. Start coding now!

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Evaluate and print out each line before it is executed.

Evaluate and print out each line before it is executed.

An anonymous reader writes: A new study on mammoth DNA comparing the hairy animals to their cousins, the Asian and African elephants, has isolated what genes separate it from its warm-weather cousins. The study found that genes controlling skin and hair development, fat metabolism, insulin signaling, and skull shape, differed from today's contemporary elephant species. "They have this weird hump on their back, which is thought to be something like a camel hump — sort of a fat deposit that stored water and energy for the cold, dark winters," says Vincent Lynch, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago.

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