ROBERT BECKHUSEN | Wired Danger Room The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers are funding a project that uses crowdsourcing to improve how machines analyze our speech. Even more radical: Darpa wants to make systems so accurate, you’ll be able to easily...

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The minutes of the August Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting are out. More members said they would favor more easing should growth remain weak. Markets quickly erased losses. The Dow is down just 31 points. The...