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 …
Technology, total war and creative destruction
An illusion hovers over the first world, that war is somewhere else, in spatial and temporal terms. It happens on the fringes of civilization and does not concern “our world” …
Through the war, SIRI will be born!
It shouldn’t surprise you, because it has become a commonplace. So, if we go back a bit in the history of smart voice assistants, in 2003, we’ll find the U.S. …