Science & Tech
Here Come AI-Enabled Cameras Meant to Sense Crime Before it Occurs
The future of video surveillance is about detecting not just faces, but behaviors.
Science & Tech
Pentagon’s Digital Guru Chris Lynch to Depart
DOD office instrumental in the JEDI cloud competition is getting a new director this month.
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Microsoft Unveils Two Secret Data Centers Built for Classified Government Data
Microsoft is building data centers and expanding security capabilities to compete with Amazon to host sensitive government data.
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Air Force to Begin Shifting Research Funds to These Kinds of Next-Gen Weapons
The Pentagon’s continues to shift focus toward Moscow and Beijing with a new push for tomorrow’s drone swarms and smart missiles.
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Judge Lifts Stay on the Pentagon’s JEDI Cloud Contract
But the department must wait until at least July 19 to make an award.
Ideas
Recycle Your Batteries, Before China Wins That Race, Too
With global demand rising for critical and rare earth materials in new tech, it's not too late for the U.S. to secure its own sources.
Ideas
The US Can't Out-China China on 5G. We Need a National Strategy.
A recent report from the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board should be a wakeup call about today's most important emerging technology.
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China Is Closing the Innovation Gap: Report
A leading tech-policy think tank says the United States needs a national strategy of its own to compete in advanced technologies.
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The Army Wants AI to Read Soldiers’ Minds
A new study from the Army Research Lab may help AI-infused weapons and tools better understand their human operators.
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DARPA Wants AI to Learn Language as Human Babies Do
The Pentagon’s research wing is funding efforts to build AI language systems that learn more like people and less like machines.
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The Newest AI-Enabled Weapon: ‘Deep-Faking’ Photos of the Earth
Step 1: Use AI to make undetectable changes to outdoor photos. Step 2: release them into the open-source world and enjoy the chaos.
Ideas
Will Hypersonics Finally Force the Pentagon to Integrate Kinetic and Non-Kinetic Defenses?
It’s long been too hard to get the U.S. military’s cyber-EW-IO operators on the same page with more traditional trigger-pullers.
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‘This is Not About Me and Google,’ Says Dunford, Who Will Meet Execs Next Week
Artificial intelligence businesses in China help an authoritarian government and erode America’s military advantage, the Joint Chiefs chairman said.
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Finally, Some Help for Tech-Bewildered Lawmakers
GAO's new Science and Technology Assessment and Analytics group aims to prep Congress for big decisions on artificial intelligence, privacy, and 5G.
Threats
Russia Racing to Complete National AI Strategy by June 15
That’s just one of several high-tech deadlines Putin set recently.
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Inside DARPA's Ambitious 'AI Next' Program
The defense research agency seeks artificial intelligence tools capable of human-like communication and logical reasoning that far surpass today’s tech.
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The West Isn’t Ready for the Coming Wave of Chinese Misinformation: Report
Beijing’s social-media operations are larger and more effective than many realize.
Policy
We’ll Soon Learn Whether You Can Post 3D-Gun Plans Online
A proposed export-rules change has snagged over the question: is publishing such designs a boon to U.S. business or foreign terrorists?
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Russia’s Pistol-Packing Robot Is Scrambling for Parts
The program’s foreign suppliers stopped shipping components after gunfire videos went viral.
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US Military Eyes Tiny Nuclear Reactors for Deployed Troops
The Strategic Capabilities Office wants to fund prototypes, picking up on decades of intermittent research
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