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In-Q-Tel taps cloud security expert Sysdig to modernize govt agencies
Barely a month after announcing a new approach to cloud visibility and security, Sysdig is tapped by the Intelligence Community funding arm, In-Q-Tel, for a strategic partnership. With this...
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In-Q-Tel partners with Outlier.ai to identify unexpected patterns in govt...
US intelligence community funding arm In-Q-Tel (IQT) announces a strategic partnership with Outlier to identify unexpected patterns in government agency data sets. As the name implies, Outlier detects...
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Set to outrun the rest: South Korea’s race to lead the world in blockchain...
If you read the headlines at the end of 2018 reporting on the ban on ICOs in South Korea, you might have forecasted challenges for the nation’s blockchain industry. However, any qualms about cryptos...
View ArticleElectric vehicles and IoT revive copper, lithium, and cobalt mining demand
As a company that requires Earth’s minerals for its tech, Tesla is voicing concerns over the shortage of battery minerals, such as cobalt, lithium and copper. For the last couple of decades, the copper...
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US intelligence wants to monitor planetwide ‘construction’ sites from space
The US intelligence community is looking for proposals for an IARPA program that monitors planetwide “anthropogenic activities” such as construction sites, with space based technologies. If you want to...
View ArticleBitcoin back in bull market, holding price tops $8K
This week Bitcoin is back in a bull market. Last time around, the cryptocurrency and its ecosystem failed miserably in terms of scaling and market readiness. Are crytpocurrency exchanges better...
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Vancouver’s race to become North America’s next big tech ecosystem
Vancouver’s tech scene continues to develop. The city, ranked third for quality of living in the world by Mercer, the only North American city to make the list, today boasts over 100,000 people working...
View ArticleWeight loss, diabetes will dominate digital therapeutics market: report
Digital therapeutics is booming with research and application. More and more patients, physicians, and health-aware citizens across the world are making use of digital technology for wellness and...
View ArticleDigital identity and Microsoft’s move for a blockchain-based ID system
Microsoft is building a digital identity system on the Bitcoin blockchain. Here we take a look at digital identity and the specifics of Microsoft’s project – together with a consideration of why...
View ArticleThe prison yard becomes a voice recognition playground
US defense agencies have been working on voice recognition for years to build a robust tracking system, and inmates are “being ‘enrolled’ into a new voice surveillance system.” The Department of...
View ArticleWill IEOs be the new paradigm in project funding?
Controversial cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announces the launch of an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) platform. With increasing movement towards the IEO model, is this what the future of...
View Article42 countries sign OECD principles for AI ethics, transparency
Forty-two countries believe that AI regulation is important enough to adopt the OECD’s AI principals, which emphasize that AI should be regulated with human-centered values. The Organisation for...
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AI satellite imagery startup launches in Lisbon to tackle environmental...
Portugal-based startup, Tesselo launched in Lisbon last week with a mission of using its advanced AI-based satellite imagery technology to prevent and combat environmental disasters such as forest...
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DARPA’s neurotech research resonates with Tesla’s acoustic mind control
DARPA’s research into brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) using sound waves resonates with Nikola Tesla’s idea that the entire mental system of humankind could be controlled electronically. “If you want...
View ArticleCold fusion remains elusive despite Google-backed research
Scientists Google are placing a renewed focus on researching cold fusion technology, yet the results are not encouraging. Cold Fusion technology was first brought to the forefront 30 years ago through...
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In-Q-Tel taps Forge.AI to monitor, predict impact of world events for govt...
The defense and intelligence community funding arm, In-Q-Tel, partners with Boston-based Forge.AI to make sense of publicly available data for government use. “Forge is listening to the ecoystem of...
View ArticleUS Army looks to blockchain to secure communications data
The US Army’s Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) is looking to blockchain to check breaches and cybersecurity issues in communications data. As the US military increases the...
View ArticleAI training proves to be energy vampire
Researchers find that the use of AI comes at great cost due to the carbon footprint implicated with the technology, but emerging technologies often tend to go on to be drivers of ever greater energy...
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Privacy-focused DNA testing startups put new spin on sequencing
Amid privacy concerns in DNA testing, a new generation of startups is emerging with a view towards empowering people to participate in research without any downside risk for themselves. Recent years...
View ArticleHouse Intel Comm to examine deepfakes after ‘Drunk Pelosi’ goes viral
In response to the “Drunk Pelosi” viral video that did not use deepfake technology, the House Intelligence Committee will examine deepfakes in a hearing on Thursday. As a response to the fake video...
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