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Army Develops AI-Enabled Programmable Fiber For Military Uniforms

Tim McMillan·
In a study recently published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Army’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have developed an AI-enabled programmable fiber capable of serving as a digital interface.  According to Army Research Labs,...

A Ridiculously Simple Defense Against Russian Malware

Tim McMillan·
Disastrous Russian malware attacks on major American corporations and local, state, and federal government agencies are becoming a deeply discomforting and disturbingly regular and frequent occurrence.  Just recently, a ransomware attack on Colonial Oil by the Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang, Darkside, brought...

DARPA Develops AI Sarcasm Detector (Just What We Needed)

Tim McMillan·
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, recently announced the successful demonstration of an advanced AI-enabled model capable of detecting sarcasm in textual communications.  With domains like Twitter and Facebook increasingly becoming battle spaces for “grey zone”...

The Growing Threat of “Deepfake Geography”

Tim McMillan·
This use of artificial intelligence to create compelling false images or videos depicting people doing or saying something that has never actually occurred, commonly known as “deepfakes,” is a reality people have become increasingly familiar with. However, a group of scientists...
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Biden Pledges To Nearly Triple Science Research Funding

Tim McMillan·
During his first press conference, U.S. President Joe Biden said his administration was planning to invest heavily in science, pledging to increase federal funding for scientific research “closer to 2%” of America’s overall GDP.  “Back in the ’60s, we used to...