Basketball meets Alcatraz – Red Bull King of the Rock World Finals 2012

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Amidst the crumbling walls and the eerily lit cell house, 64 one-on-one basketball players battled in bone-chilling conditions to prove they were worthy of being deemed King of the Rock. In the end, Hugh “Baby Shaq” Jones from Washington D.C. was the last man standing as the undisputed champion. Unlike last year’s competition, where the international players were mostly eliminated in the first round, this year’s expanded crop showed a greater skill set and will. Nine international players made it out of the first round, and three players advanced to the round of 16. The talk of the competition proved to be Lukas Kraus from the Czech Republic.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?

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Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating — jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through recent labor data to say: We ain’t seen nothing yet. But then he steps back to look at big history, and comes up with a surprising and even thrilling view of what comes next.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!