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...Plan, which estimates that autonomous aerial bots will replace all manned aircraft in the country by 2047. And in June, leading figures in the artificial intelligence community convened at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterey Bay to discuss the dangers of technologies like drones for humans. Sitting on the oceanfront, surrounded by pristine forests and sandy white beaches, they mulled over such “I, Robot” scenarios as super-intelligent machines destroying the world in self-defense. Forget Dr. Strangelove—we need Will Smith...
...African slaves arrived on the island in the 1700s, freed blacks came to work in the service industry after the Civil War, and later they came as entrepreneurs. Eventually they were absorbed into an emerging community of African-American professionals, many of whom summer in picturesque Oak Bluffs, an oceanfront town of quaint gingerbread homes. "They were not segregated in the island community, as blacks were by law in the Jim Crow South or by custom and tradition in the North," Hayden explains, thanks to the parallel development of black and white communities on the island and the tolerant attitudes...
...Tourism Queensland to be the caretaker of an Australian tropical island. And for the not exactly demanding 12 hours he's expected to work each month in Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef (key duties: snorkelling, feeding fish, blogging), he'll be put up in a three-bedroom oceanfront villa (with swimming pool just in case he tires of the sea) and be paid the princely sum of $110,000. (See TIME's 100 most influential people...
...result, Rosarito Beach hotels, 20 minutes from Tijuana, ran at a 60% occupancy rate during Easter week, according to Torres, a hotel owner himself. This may be optimistic. Even during the bike race hotels were offering deals, like oceanfront suites for two nights, including dinner for two each night (with free dinners for children) at $219 total...
Back in Baja Norte, the bad news isn't stopping golf superstar Tiger Woods, from building a new luxury oceanfront golf course on the rocky Pacific coastline south of Ensenada, 70 miles below San Diego. Called Punta Brava, the development includes 125 homes, with prices starting at $3 million for a one-acre lot and $3.5 million for a condo. Opening is slated for 2011. The developer is the Flagship Group, whose principals include Red McCombs, co-founder of Clear Channel Communications...