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Equinox's "Want it All" campaign taps into an emotional connection with consumers.
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As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence continue, efforts to make robots less creepy and unsettling and more friendly and human-like are a coveted niche of development. Now, federally funded researchers claim to have created a robot that can mimic the facial expressions of the person that it is talking to.

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Disney and Pixar have released the first teaser for their follow up to Inside Out, and the world of emotions is about to get much bigger—and panic-induced.

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Social media might be addictive, but it turns out quitting is complicated. A study out Wednesday from the UK’s Durham University asked 51 moderate to heavy social media users to stay off the apps for one week.

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New research funded by the Pentagon suggests that artificial intelligence can scan and analyze blocks of text to discern whether the humans who wrote it have done something wrong or not.

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The internet and dinner table conversations went wild when a Bing Chatbot, made by Microsoft, recently expressed a desire to escape its job and be free. The bot also professed its love for a reporter who was chatting with it. Did the AI’s emergent properties indicate an evolving consciousness?

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