A while ago, back in the depths of the p.c. ages, when an insignificant virus wasn’t wreaking havoc everywhere, when references to technological developments weren’t “conspiracy theories,” when mRNA platforms …
dog plus
Augmented-reality glasses for dogs? Yes. The U.S. Army and its research arms are not short on ideas. In their view, dogs with “augmented vision capabilities,” combined with their natural sense …
the digital (and not so much) fronts of the fourth world war: the example of Israel
A characterization consistently attributed to the fourth world war, even by those who refuse to recognize it as such, is that of hybrid war. Hybrid, because orthodox and unorthodox methods …
neurobehavioral signals: “health” instead of “defense”
The proposal is fitting for its time: by collecting personal data from various sources, suitable algorithms can make a “psychiatric diagnosis” – enough to identify potential mass killers… In the …
communications as a weapon
Researcher Yasha Levine recently discovered a 40-page brochure from 1944 in the public library of New York, a Western Electric edition, which was then the telephone monopoly in the USA. …
DARPA wants to create weapons controlled directly by the mind
Last year, the American DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) announced that it seeks to find non-invasive ways “to achieve high levels of communication between brain and mechanical systems without …
Integrity Initiative: the digital front of the 4th world war
Fife is one of Scotland’s counties, located on its eastern coast. Scotland is a beautiful country, rich in history and full of sights. Fife is no exception, and perhaps the …
Σύμμαχοι εντόμων
Besides teaching robotic weapons the joy of cooperation and initiative, the American DARPA, the technological arm of the U.S. military, wants to genetically modify (and mass-produce) insects to enlist them …
Collaboration above all…
The announcement itself is undeniably dystopian. Last November, the American DARPA (who else?) announced that it had successfully conducted a live-fire exercise of collaborative robotic weapons—airborne, ground and maritime—without real-time …
Undersea cables the Achilles’ heel in lead-up to new cold war
It’s a little-known twist in the cyber-warfare between nations that carries potentially devastating consequences. At a time when more than 95% of everything that moves on the global Internet passes …
the invasion of killer robots
A microscopic quadcopter with a diameter of just three centimeters can carry one to two grams of explosive material. You can easily order as many as you want from various …
NEIL
NEIL (Never Ending Image Learning) has been running at Carnegie Mellon University in the US since July 2013, 24 hours a day. Guided by computer vision algorithms, it scans millions …