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Patrick McGreevy — LA Times

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed bills that recognize the legal use of Bitcoins and other digital currencies in California, repeal a requirement for food handlers to use gloves, and keep minor truants out of lockup facilities, his aides announced Saturday.

In all, the governor signed 15 pieces of legislation into law, including one that reflects the changing way that technology has Californians doing business.

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By: Jason Dorrier — Singularity Hub

Headlines recently exploded with news that a computer program called Eugene Goostman had become the first to pass the Turing test, a method devised by computing pioneer Alan Turing to objectively prove a computer can think.

The program fooled 33% of 30 judges into thinking it was a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy in a five-minute conversation. How impressive is the result? In a very brief encounter, judges interacted with a program that could be forgiven for not knowing much or speaking very eloquently—in the grand scheme, it’s a fairly low bar.

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8 Ways The Internet Of Things Will Change Everyday Life https://blogs.sap.com/innovation/innovation/8-ways-the-inter…-NTECLPLIS

Billions To Soon Be Invested In 3D Printing Research and Development http://3dprint.com/7599/billions-rd-3d-printing/

Iraq Says Russian Experts Have Arrived to Help Prepare Jets for Fighting http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/world/middleeast/iraq.html…v=top-news

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The quantum cryptography arms race has begun http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/the-quantum-cryptography…gun-244907

A 36-core chip design with an Internet-style communication network http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-36-core-chip-design-with-an-inte…on-network

Wearable computing gloves can teach Braille, even if you’re not paying attention http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-computing-gloves-can-teac…-attention

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A self-powered cardiac pacemaker http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-self-powered-cardiac-pacemaker

Google innovations at Google I/O http://www.kurzweilai.net/google-innovations-at-google-io

Ray Kurzweil — Biologically inspired models of intelligence http://www.exponentialtimes.net/videos/ray-kurzweil-biologic…telligence

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Watch this: prototype NASA robot prowls the underside of frozen lakes, oceans http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/24/5839902/watch-this-prototy…ozen-lakes

Limb regeneration: do salamanders hold the key? http://www.kurzweilai.net/limb-regeneration-do-salamanders-hold-the-key

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Global Ocean Commission Tells Us What We Don’t Want to Hear http://www.21stcentech.com/global-ocean-commissions-latest-report-hear/

Gallup Examines the State of the American Consumer http://thegallupblog.gallup.com/2014/06/gallup-examines-state-of-american.html

This Band Of Small Robots Could Build Entire Skyscrapers Without Human Help http://www.fastcoexist.com/3032003/this-band-of-small-robots…man-help#2

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Kurzweil AI

Washington State University researchers have used a super-cold cloud of atoms that behaves like a single atom, opening a new experimental path to potentially powerful quantum computing.

Physicist Peter Engels and his colleagues cooled about one million atoms of rubidium to 100 billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

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Ryan Morrison — BBC News

A campaign has been launched to make Jersey a world leader in digital currencies.

Bitcoin payments are already accepted in a handful of places but an industry expert says, if the States allow banks to accept and trade with it, Jersey could become a magnet for new business.

Robbie Andrews, of bit.coin.je, an industry body set up to promote and campaign for the currency, wants to create a “Bitcoin Isle”.

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