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Compact Electronic noses can monitor air quality, diagnoze diseases to biohazards like covid-19, explosives and nerve gas
May 26, 2021
Government and local law enforcement agencies have employed canines for decades to sniff explosives and such banned goods as fresh produce, exotic wildlife, undeclared currency and illicit drugs. Now researchers are…
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Psychological warfare becoming sophisticated with development of new tools and technologies
May 25, 2021
Psychological warfare involves the planned use of propaganda and other psychological operations to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of opposition groups. The targets of such propaganda campaigns can…
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Lawfare, or legal warfare as means of realizing a military objective
May 20, 2021
Legal warfare, at its most basic, involves “arguing that one’s own side is obeying the law, criticizing the other side for violating the law [weifa], and making arguments for one’s…
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Army turns to data analytics and machine learning for skill identification, talent recruitment and development
May 19, 2021
The National Defense Strategy and the Army Strategy both point out that the global security environment is increasingly complex and shaped by several emergent trends. In the past, the Army…
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Militaries developing Machine Learning Algorithms to decode Brain Signals for Brain-computer interface (or BCI)
May 19, 2021
Brain-computer interface (or BCI) is basically setting up a connection between the human brain and the computer device to control or to perform certain activity using brain signals. These brain…
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Large Biohacking or DIY biology growth, to hack human brains and their bodies, with desire to improve performance, cure chronic diseases and live longer
May 12, 2021
Just as computers could be hacked and made to perform according to one’s wishes, now you hack your own body, a concept called Biohacking. It can be as simple as…
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Quantum Sensors like Quantum magnetometers entering commercial market to detect and measure extremely small signals
May 9, 2021
The world, say many experts, is on the verge of a second quantum revolution. Energy quantization gave us modern electronics via the transistor and the laser, but humans’ burgeoning ability…
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Emerging Artificial-biological hybrid computing will enable Integration of Artificial and Human Intelligence (AI & HI)
May 9, 2021
Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers. A computer system able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such…
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Drones that can Autonomously launch and Land from a moving platform are new requirements for Defense and Security
May 8, 2021
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ( commonly known as a drone) is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS);…
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DARPA ( AIE, XAI and AI Next) developing “third wave” AI based adaptive military systems that are trustworthy, learn continuously, and explain their rationale
May 5, 2021
The first Wave of AI is Crafted Knowledge, which includes rule-based AI systems. In the first wave,humans defined the rules for the Intelligent machines and they follow the rules. The…
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US-Iran conflict will be threat to Middle East because of Iran’s growing military power and deterrent capability
May 5, 2021
The threat of war between the US and Iran escalated in Jan 2020 when in retaliation for the U.S. assassination of military leader Qasem Soleimani, Iran launched a ballistic missile…
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Amid Rising naval threats from Russia and China enhanced collaboration of Royal Navy and US Navy
April 30, 2021
Russia and china are asserting their growing military might and reach through seas a threat to NATO nations. Russian naval activity is now at its highest levels since the Cold…
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