Are we facing a new space race? "Russia is celebrating its Day of Cosmonautics in grand fashion today. President Vladimir Putin has announced a new multi-year plan to develop the country's …
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This fascinating story on GigaOm discusses the implications of big data and personal privacy. What was uniquely interesting was this quote from CIA Chief Technology Officer Gus Hunt in describing how …
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Influencing OODA Loops is nothing new. Having a direct interface outside the senses is… "It’s been fashionable in military circles to talk about cyberspace as a ‘fifth domain’ for warfare, along …
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Augmented reality is a composite, real time view of the world overlaid with computer information or graphics. Augmented reality has been getting a lot of attention since the announcement of Google …
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It will be interesting to see what happens when someone gets jailed for subversion of state power while operating from their Internet connection provided by a Western company for their Chinese …
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With the increasing chatter regarding the targeting of critical infrastructure by sophisticated attackers, I thought it would be valuable to look at this issue not in the context of the current …
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The findings and conclusions of malware "analysis" are not in fact analysis; they are, however, a collection of data points linked together by assumptions whose validity and credibility have not been …
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Unmanned aerial vehicles have become the signature of American offensive military operations. While far from perfect, drones are now critical to achieving US goals in an effective and efficient …
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Governments and NGOs alike have lauded the explosion of cellular phones in the developing world. The World Telecommunications Union reported in 2011 that 79% of the population in developing states …
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"When conflict breaks out in social groups, individuals make strategic decisions about how to behave based on their understanding of alliances and feuds in the group." Source: How computation can …
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