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China

China building aircraft hangars on disputed islands in South China Sea, says US think tank scmp

Satellite photographs taken in late July show the construction of hangars on Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly chain of islands and some have already been completed, according to a report by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

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AI

IBM’s AI system Watson just edited an entire magazine all on its own digitaltrends

According to a press release published via The Drum, the magazine edited by Watson consists of a variety of features that cover Watson’s different analytical functions, as well as how it can assist modern-day marketers. Moreover, The Drum reports that Watson has also been programmed to have the ability to answer a series of questions pertaining to “advertising legend” David Olgivy. and has even predicted a list of winners for this year’s Cannes Lions awards.

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Russia and China, Russia and China, every day it's Russia and China. We're either being targeted by Russia or making China angry, and today is no different. There's also a story today about finding a lost Mayan city that might not be true (ha!), and a guy who calls himself a girl who is on track to be elected to office in the Philippines.

Archaeology

Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom telegraph.co.uk

William Gadoury, 15, was fascinated by the ancient Central American civilization and spent hours poring over diagrams of constellations and maps of known Mayan cities.

And then he made a startling realisation: the two appeared to be linked.

Well it's all fun and games until the anthropologists weigh in :) Check out the second half of this later article in Gizmodo where it seems like this might not be so true, after all.