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Nikki Hallgrimsdottir, co-founder of Algo.ai, on female entrepreneurship and...
Change is on the horizon. While it might be overdue and slow, it is evident that women are gaining more ground in the world of business. Both The Next Web and Entrepreneur have published articles over...
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Shareholders tell Amazon to stop selling Rekognition facial recognition tech...
Amazon shareholders file a resolution demanding that Amazon stop selling facial recognition software Rekognition to government and law enforcement, citing concerns of potential civil and human rights...
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Stargates, wormholes, extra dimensions: DIA declassifies $22M research via FOIA
Requests made via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal declassified documents showing that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) used $22 million in funding from 2007-2012 to research...
View Article“For many, simply being able to say “Yes or No” is life changing”: Cognixion,...
According to Andiamo, there are around 7,000 languages and dialects in the world. In fact, human’s ability to communicate is so advanced that we even create fake languages for entertainment, and as it...
View ArticleHow virtual assistants are adding value to businesses everywhere
In many cases, how we use technology at home and in our personal lives is quickly mimicked by the professional world. After all MSN messenger was first created in 1999 and spread throughout homes...
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Tech arms race with China blurs ‘physical, digital, biological lines’: WEF
Speaking at the 2019 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe says that the blurring and fusion of physical, digital, and biological tech in the tech arms...
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‘Authoritarianism is easier in a world of total visibility’: WEF report
Weather wars, authoritarian surveillance, social control, and more are “Future Shocks” that could fundamentally destabilize the world as we know it, according to the WEF. Read More: Tech arms race with...
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How the US intelligence community will tackle technological threats: NIS report
US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Daniel R. Coats releases the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS), highlighting technological threats and how the Intelligence Community (IC) will tackle...
View ArticleSubterranean wartime blues: DARPA preps for battle underground
While many government organizations are looking to space as the next battle frontier, DARPA is burying its money deep beneath the earth to invest in groundbreaking research into subterranean warfare....
View Article‘AI defense development may gain insight from biological immune systems’: DARPA
“Novel adversarial AI defense development may gain insight and inspiration from biological systems, such as the immune system and its interactions with bacteria and viruses,” according to a DARPA...
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Brain-computer interface helps turn brainwave patterns into speech
Following his research into speech signal processing for DARPA’s RATS program, Dr. Nima Mesgarani of Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute and fellow researchers announce that a brain-computer...
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The Übermensch in the Cuckoo’s Nest: Malware in AI-human Hybrids
Superhuman powers, shared memories, and the end of all disease are promising hopes coming out of brain-computer interface technology research, but what happens if an AI-human hybrid becomes infected...
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A program to keep Prometheus out of machine learning systems
Just as Prometheus was a liberator of humankind by bringing the flame of knowledge to humanity by defying the gods, DARPA wants to make sure that machine learning (ML) is trustworthy and doesn’t free...
View ArticleKorea will invest $40M in quantum computing over next 5 years
The Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) announces it will invest $40 million in quantum computing over the next five years. “Over the next five years, we will develop core...
View ArticleAs facial recognition becomes more prevalent, “diversity and inclusion” is...
Concern has surrounded Amazon’s Rekognition technology, with fears that it could be used in an authoritarian and inaccurate manner by the governments and police. However, new research from The Center...
View ArticleStartup Sesame Summit will be dedicated to the future of tech in Europe and...
Once again, Startup Sesame has chosen Valencia for its annual gathering. The third biggest city in Spain, Valencia is considered one of the top 50 cities for millennials in the world. Valencia is all...
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A look into the 2nd batch of Techstars Dubai companies
Having announced a partnership in 2017 with GINCO to bring an accelerator to Dubai, Techstars is now announcing its second batch of promising startups. The batch includes founders representing over 13...
View ArticleQuantum computing: collaboration with the multiverse?
Quantum computing is now evolving as the hottest technology of 2019, but concepts behind this tech go back millennia, including those of parallel universes within a single multiverse. “Quantum...
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Unclassified: DoD cloud strategy to focus on AI adoption
The US Department of Defense (DoD) unveils its cloud initiative strategy for migrating its computing and storage functions to the cloud with “multiple cloud platforms.” “DoD is going to focus on...
View ArticleEvery move you make IARPA will be watching you
On the surface, IARPA’s Activities in Extended Video (ActEV) Prize Challenge looks to improve efficiency, so camera operators can quickly identify what exactly people are doing in the video footage. ...
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