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Over two billion people on the planet will turn 60 years old or more by 2050, the Salford Institute for Dementia is one of many centers around the world investigating how health care and robotics can work together. (Photo by University of Salford Press Office)

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Robot laws: to control robots before they control us?

Robotics is shaping up to be the next transformative technology and we need laws to deal with the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence.

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Fiscal Times

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Robots are increasing our wages, not stealing our jobs

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Wired

Robots: The next industrial revolution

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Forbes

Alternative energy investments higher than reported

The Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) group has made a correction to their initial investment numbers for the second quarter of 2015, indicating more money spent on clean energy than previously thought.

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Green Optimistic

Planning (Indoor) agriculture for the 21st century

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How quickly are you growing old?

Age may be just a number, but experts say it might not be the right number to gauge your health. Everybody grows older at a different pace, and aging can begin early.

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Business Day

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Why do we all age at such different rates?

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Extreme Tech

ECB agrees to more emergency loans for Greek banks

The Greek bank rescue mission is finally underway, but it is coming slowly. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi announced that the Greek banks would receive an additional €900-million in emergency loans

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Globeandmail.com

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Greece’s parliament approves austerity measures

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NPR

Homelessness does not mean hopelessness

Dimopoulos’ work has raised crucial awareness for social issues, with his most recent work centered on the visually prevalent yet socially hidden concept of homelessness.

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Neokosmos

3 Things to remember when you’re feeling hopeless

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National Catholic Register

Quake-hit Nepal to train 50,000 workers for reconstruction

Earthquake-hit Nepal will train 50,000 workers to help carry out reconstruction, the finance minister said, the biggest skill development program in the country’s history.

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PHILANTHROPY AND AID

The world can end AIDS by 2030: UN

Since 2000, the number of new HIV cases has dropped by 35 percent, from 3.1 million to 2 million. The decline is attributed to accessibility to retroviral drugs, community outreach and the effective mobilization of advocates.

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Huffington Post

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Goal to end AIDS epidemic by 2030 “ambitious but realistic”: UN chief

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Yahoo! News

Prince Harry takes Invictus Games to USA in 2016

With a choir singing Invictus in the background, Prince Harry announced Tuesday in a deft online video that he’s bringing his Invictus Games for wounded warriors to the USA next year.

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USA TODAY

HUMAN RIGHTS

Five British tourists ‘to face terror charges’ in Inner Mongolia

Five British tourists are reportedly to be criminally charged by the Chinese authorities over alleged terror links. They are being held in police cells in the Inner Mongolia city of Ordos.

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Telegraph.co.uk

China accuses human rights lawyers, activists of inciting ‘mob rule’

At least 24 human rights lawyers and activists have been detained or went missing in China since last Thursday, Amnesty International reports. The government continues its nationwide crackdown on civil disobedience.

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Christian Science Monitor

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

As Yemen’s civil war grinds on, fears of a potential breakup

UN-sponsored peace talks to end the Saudi-led, and US-supported, air campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen failed this week. Just like the last talks did. And there’s a reason.

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Christian Science Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defiant in face of isolation after Iran deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a major defeat in failing to stop a nuclear deal with Iran but he remains as defiant as ever even at the risk of further isolation.

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Japan’s Abe pushes security bills, sparks protests in summer of discontent

Legislation for a dramatic change in Japan’s defense policy that could allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two was approved by a lower house panel.

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Today

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Mass protests in Tokyo as Japan moves to ditch pacifism

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Irish Times

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Aquaculture could face fish meal shortfall as soon as 2016

The $170 billion aquaculture industry could face a shortfall of fish meal and fish oil for feed as early as 2016, and demand could outpace fish meal supply by up to 16 million metric tons in 2025.

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Undercurrent News

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Aquaculture importance discussed at Sustainable Seafood Week

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Surveillance Society: Uber‘s use of customers’ data raises concerns

Uber’s revised privacy policy allows the ride-sharing giant to track passengers even when they disable the GPS features on the app. A spokesperson said the policy represents an improvement for riders.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Simple test to detect Alzheimer’s risk

A new affordable, non-invasive test that detects electrical activity in the brain may predict the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, scientists say.

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Business Standard

NASA takes ‘another historic leap for humankind’ with Pluto fly-by

New images of Pluto have emerged after NASA’s New Horizons mission reached the planet for the first time in history. New close-up images show a range of mountains revealing parts of Pluto’s surface that are very young.

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Toronto Star

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Behold, the first closeup pictures from the Pluto flyby are here

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Jobless claims in US decrease for first time in four weeks

Filings for U.S. unemployment benefits declined last week for the first time in a month, heading back toward the lowest levels in more than a decade and signaling firings remain muted.

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Bloomberg

Study reveals that women who sit too much have increased risk of cancer

A new study published in “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention” reveals that women who sit too much during their leisure time have an increased risk of cancer.

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Today Health & Wellness

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

A dozen foreign NGOs declared unwelcome in Russia

The Duma’s Federation Council has placed 12 foreign NGOs in Russia on a blacklist and forbidden any activity in the country. The new legislation has placed even tighter restrictions on NGOs in Russia than before.

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A county in which half the economy is nonprofit-driven

A report finds nonprofits in Berkshire County account for almost half the region’s economic activity. Specifically, nearly 373 nonprofits now account for $2.4 billion of the $5.6 billion in economic activity in Berkshire County.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Why is the West Antarctic ice sheet melting? It may not be just global warming.

Scientists found a way to measure the heat of the land under the ice sheet and discovered it was higher than estimated, suggesting climate change may not be the sole culprit melting the ice.

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Christian Science Monitor

Nearly 9,500 people die each year in London because of air pollution

Counting impact of toxic gas NO2 for the first time suggests more than twice as many people as previously thought die prematurely from pollution in UK capital.

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Guardian

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Geeks Take On Air Pollution

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Londonist

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Grandparents take their grandchildren to the Gaomei wetlands in Taiwan to collect seashells and play in the water. (Photo by Terry Chen)

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