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'Convergence': Secret Labs Already Deployed Lifelike Female Androids While Public Watches Optimus Toy Demos Authored by Madge Waggy, Technology has an unusual habit of revealing itself twice. The first version appears quietly, almost unnoticed, inside research papers, patent filings, laboratory demonstrations and corporate presentations that attract little attention beyond specialists. The second version arrives years later, polished into a consumer product that suddenly convinces everyone the breakthrough happened overnight. History repeatedly favors this illusion. By the time society begins discussing a technological revolution, thousands of engineers have already spent years solving problems...

Measuring Poverty Correctly Reveals A Hard Truth About The Welfare State Authored by Tyler Turman via TheDailyEconomy.org, America has spent more than $20 trillion on fighting poverty since the introduction of President Johnson’s Great Society program in 1964. Sixty years later, how are we doing? That depends, as it turns out, on how you measure it. Last month, Senator Kennedy (R-LA) introduced a bill that would require the Census Bureau to report a new poverty metric as an alternative to the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) by including both cash and non-cash welfare benefits in its calculations. As Kennedy points...