Swarm attacks using unmanned vehicles involve transformative technologies that concern the DoD, and according to CTO Dr. Michael Griffin, directed energy and high-powered microwaves can be very effective defenses. | Continue reading
Mesmerizing is watching the race between the Swedish YouTuber Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, and the Bollywood content creator, T-Series, for the most subscribers on YouTube. The stakes are high for both of the contenders, but higher for PewDiePie, who, despite ga … | Continue reading
The tech world is welcome to NYC but they need to play their part. This is the conclusion New York Assemblyman Michael Blake comes to when campaigning for his next big post. After having been Iowa deputy political director for Barack Obama, Blake will be running for public advo … | Continue reading
The FBI moved its Counterterrorism Division data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) following the Las Vegas massacre in 2017, according to Deputy Assistant Director Christine Halvorsen. | Continue reading
Ottawa-based SaaS startup accelerator L-Spark releases a report on investments in Canadian SaaS companies, signaling $1.62 billion invested in 2018. | Continue reading
The US Intelligence Community (IC), including the CIA, FBI, NSA, and others cannot keep with the amount of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests due to a lack of organization and inadequate tech. | Continue reading
The DARPA Launch Challenge aims to demonstrate the ability to launch payloads to orbit on extremely short notice, with no prior knowledge of the payload, destination orbit or launch site, and do it not just once, but twice, in a matter of days. | Continue reading
The wait is over for Amazon’s decision on where its second headquarters (HQ2) will be housed: the company has begun finalizing plans to split HQ2 between Crystal City in North Virginia and Long Island City in Queens, New York, according to a report in The New York Times. | Continue reading
Aside from the fart jokes, family drama and existential dread, Rick and Morty also features some of the most creative inventions you’re likely to find in any TV show. Ahead of the Season 4 release, let’s take a look back at some of their best hits, and how far away we are from im … | Continue reading
The new Space Force should look to leverage commercial space technology, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan. | Continue reading
The new Space Force should look to leverage commercial space technology, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan. | Continue reading
Over the weekend, Indiewire reported that The Simpsons would be quietly phasing out it’s most controversial character, Apu, causing the internet to stir in protest. | Continue reading
If a Microsoft employee has ethical concerns over the US military use of technology, they can opt for different projects to work on, according to Microsoft president Brad Smith. | Continue reading
If AI doesn't have the ethics of Buddha, Terence McKenna once said, then the human race may be down for the count. | Continue reading
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) files a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disclose how it and ICE use Amazon facial recognition software Rekognition for law and immigration enforcement. | Continue reading
A report reveals that Silicon Valley giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Palantir are providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with the data to incarcerate and deport government "undesirables" en masse. | Continue reading
Just as ballistics analysts can match a bullet to the gun that fired it by studying the markings on the bullet, so too can analysts look to the markings on a 3D-printed gun to find which hardware produced it. | Continue reading
Over 450 Amazon employees sign a letter to Jeff Bezos and other executives demanding that Palantir be removed from Amazon Web Services (AWS). | Continue reading
There are 437 million unorganized laborers in India, making up 94% of the workforce. The daunting task of connecting the enormous unorganized workforce with employers is exactly what Labouradda is in the process of doing. | Continue reading
DARPA is envisioning a future of warfare where soldiers engaged in urban combat will interact with upwards of 250 autonomous robots through a military tactic known as swarming. | Continue reading
China is moving towards merging AI with humans, and the United States Defense Intelligence Agency sees this as a major concern for the future of warfare. | Continue reading
US Senator Richard Blumenthal pens a letter urging the FTC "to immediately open an investigation into Google's exposure of private information from Google+ users and this alleged concealment in its handling of consumer data." | Continue reading
Just over a quarter of big tech employees say that their companies go to unreasonable lengths to spy on them, according to a report by Blind. | Continue reading
Technology is not evil, nor is it good. It is simply a tool. Facebook Portal is a tool, and now Google Home Hub is the latest tool to come from the company that just admitted to hiding a major bug in its system that potentially exposed personal data of some 500,000 users. | Continue reading
Facebook has a new hardware product called Portal, a video sharing device which has Amazon's voice assistant Alexa built-in, and it is the first physical product released from Building 8. | Continue reading
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announces the launch of an AI chemistry program, Accelerated Molecular Discovery (AMD), to develop new molecules for US military capabilities. | Continue reading
On October 25 the Caribbean's "hottest tech conference," ATECH, will return to Aruba along with some of the world’s most talented speakers, investors, and startups. | Continue reading
With partial funding from DARPA, researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) discover how to "see" around corners with a new sensing method. | Continue reading
United Airlines becomes the first US airline to partner with Palantir, a scandal-ridden company founded by Peter Thiel with the backing of the CIA's venture arm, In-Q-Tel. | Continue reading
UK spy agency GCHQ is found to have violated human rights just three days after announcing an open call for startups to join its accelerator in the Greater Manchester area in 2019. | Continue reading
DARPA is building an Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program to turn machines into "collaborative partners" for US national defense. | Continue reading
Like spiraling serpents entwined in symbiosis; sequential strands of DNA continue to bring to light new breakthroughs in technology with their capacity for storing large quantities of data, even ancestral memories passed down from generation to generation. | Continue reading
This article was Co-Authored by Craig Corbett & Peter Andringa Earlier this year I traveled to Puerto Rico for the first time since Hurricane Maria. For years I’d had an interest in Puerto Rico’s emerging tech scene. This time, I went anxious to get a good look at how that tech s … | Continue reading
If you think back, it wasn’t long ago that the media was constantly comparing New York’s startup ecosystem with that of the reigning tech universe Silicon Valley. And then, somehow, the hype abated. On a recent trip to NYC, I wanted to better understand the state of things. Had a … | Continue reading
Abartys Health talks about the incentives of building a startup in Puerto Rico after raising $1.45 million last April. | Continue reading