June 16, 2014
Ukraine Gas Talks Break Down; Don’t Worry Until September
Continued here: Ukraine Gas Talks Break Down; Don’t Worry Until September
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Continued here: Ukraine Gas Talks Break Down; Don’t Worry Until September
Also note that Last-Ditch Russian Gas Talks to Resume .
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The Financial Times reports Iraq Slides Further Into Turmoil as Kurds Take Oil City Kirkuk . Iraq’s Shia-dominated government launched air strikes on Sunni insurgent positions in and around the city of Mosul on Thursday as Islamist forces hurtled toward the capital and Kurdish troops seized control of the key oil city of Kirkuk
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The Guardian reports Computer Simulating 13-Year-Old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test A "super computer" has duped humans into thinking it was a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the Turing test, experts have said. Five machines were tested at the Royal Society in central London to see if they could fool people into thinking they were humans during text-based conversations. The test was devised in 1950 by computer science pioneer and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing, who said that if a machine was indistinguishable from a human, then it was "thinking".
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Read the original: Ukraine Opens Talks with Russia; New President Promises Peace Making Efforts; Bombing of Slavyansk Continues Anyway