The concept is also known as Universal Basic Income, and it really is just that. The government would cut every citizen a check -- around 1,000 to 2,000 a month -- with no strings attached. You can spend it on groceries, stash it in a savings account or splurge it all on a trip to Hawaii. It doesn't matter what you do with it; the government will send you that money every month regardless. That check might not matter so much if you already have a decent salary, but if you're poor or unemployed, that extra 1,000 could be the difference between a roof over your head and living on the streets.

After spending more than a year on a waiting list for a functional prosthetic hand, a Texas girl's needs were met by her local public library-- which happens to have a 3-D printing lab. Katelyn Vincik, 5, was born with a left hand that wasn't fully formed, but hasn't let that difference slow her down, Click 2 Houston reported. "She's very determined, she does everything," her mother, Kimberly Vincik, told the news channel. "It's never held her back." But during her nightly prayers, Katelyn always asks when the doctors will fix her hand.

TAIPEI Taiwan has asked Uber Technologies to pay a sales tax bill estimated by local media to be up to about 6.4 million, the government said on Friday, as a decision looms on whether the global ride-hailing service may be ordered to leave the island.

Threat of AI taking over humankind could be one step closer to reality, as China is building a range of killer cruise missiles. The missiles, dubbed'death drones, will be equipped with artificial intelligence to guide them in flight and potentially even choose new targets. The country is leading the world in the development of AI weapons, a senior designer said today. China is building a range of killer cruise missiles which will be equipped with AI. President Xi Jinping is overseeing an ambitious military modernisation programme, including developing stealth fighters and building aircraft carriers.

Rubins and Williams plan to conduct a spacewalk on Friday, Aug. 19, 2016, to install a new docking port that will enable the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft. MELBOURNE, Fla. -- NASA spacewalkers on Friday hope to ready the International Space Station to receive astronauts in commercial spaceships expected to launch from Florida within the next 18 months. Expedition 48 commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Kate Rubins will attempt to install a ring to a docking port slated for Boeing and SpaceX capsules now being developed under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Four NASA astronauts assigned to train for the first test flights of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon will be relieved to see the ring, formally called International Docking Adapter, in place. "Without the docking adapter, we're not going to get any of these vehicles on board station," said Bob Behnken, one of four potential NASA test pilots, during a recent visit to Kennedy Space Center.

You can get a pretty good idea of a country's wealth by seeing how much it shines at night -- just compare the intense brightness of China and South Korea to the dark mass of North Korea that's sandwiched between them. But nighttime lights don't tell you which neighborhoods or villages within a large region are merely poor and which are home to people living in abject poverty. That's the level of detail policymakers need when they decide where to deploy their economic development programs. You could get that detail by sending legions of survey-takers into crowded slums and sparsely populated rural areas. But that would be hugely time-consuming and cost tens of millions of dollars or more.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

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Wang's department is said to have developed a large family of cruise missiles for the Chinese military. He added that China was a global leader in the artificial intelligence field. In March, China announces 7.6 percent defense budget rise, lowest in six years, reaching 146 billion.