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Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.
R2D2 may look better, but Dextre the Canadian handyman can successfully repair a circuit breaker more than 200 miles away from Earth More »
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People make snap judgments based on strangers' appearances. Now a computer program can do the same thing. More »
