Tim Hinchliffe

Tim Hinchliffe is the editor of The Sociable. His passions include writing about how technology impacts society and the parallels between Artificial Intelligence and Mythology. Previously, he was a reporter for the Ghanaian Chronicle in West Africa and an editor at Colombia Reports in South America. tim@sociable.co

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Salesforce is down, updates on Twitter

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Today Salesforce is down, experiencing major technical issues, and its Co-Founder and CTO Parker Harris has been giving updates on...

Social Media

White House wants to hear your experience with online political censorship

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The Trump White House is asking people to share their stories of being censored online due to political bias with...

Technology

US intelligence wants to monitor planetwide ‘construction’ sites from space

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The US intelligence community is looking for proposals for an IARPA program that monitors planetwide "anthropogenic activities" such as construction...

Business Technology

In-Q-Tel partners with Outlier.ai to identify unexpected patterns in govt data sets

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US intelligence community funding arm In-Q-Tel (IQT) announces a strategic partnership with Outlier to identify unexpected patterns in government agency...

Business

‘Tech should serve all of humanity’: Talov at Seedstars Summit

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Talov Co-Founder and President Hugo Jácome talks with The Sociable at the Seedstars Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he lays...

Business Technology

In-Q-Tel taps cloud security expert Sysdig to modernize govt agencies

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Barely a month after announcing a new approach to cloud visibility and security, Sysdig is tapped by the Intelligence Community...

Technology

Govt Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge offers $250K to predict the future

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How many missile test events will North Korea conduct in August 2019? Will there be a locally-transmitted case of the Zika...

Technology

DARPA is turning soldiers’ skin into a mosquito repellent

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Screw malaria pills, says DARPA; let's engineer your skin microbiome to keep those pesky mosquitoes and their rampant diseases at...

Technology

‘Privacy is a myth’: AI for surveillance startup Wobot CPO

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Wobot Intelligence Chief Product Officer (CPO) Tanay Dixit talks with The Sociable about privacy in the age of mass surveillance from the...

Technology

What happens when British intelligence partners with a global innovation hub

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GCHQ Accelerator Program Manager Sarah Martin reveals how and why the British intelligence agency partnered with global innovation hub Wayra to accelerate...

Business

Europe’s leading accelerators to meet at EU-Startups Summit in Barcelona

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Representatives from Europe's leading startup accelerators will be gathered in one place for a panel discussion at the EU-Startups Summit...

Business Technology

South Korea one step closer to autonomous vehicles with 5G launch

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South Korea becomes the first Asian country to launch nationwide 5G networks, which brings it one step closer towards implementing...

Business Technology

Momentum in Pakistan is all about corporate innovation, tech to scale startups

Tim Hinchliffe2 months ago

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While simultaneously helping startups to scale, Momentum, Pakistan's leading tech conference, is going through its own scaling process, making this year's...

Business Technology

GCHQ announces startup grads from secret Manchester accelerator base

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The GCHQ accelerator in Manchester, UK is so secret that not even its location can be made public, but the...

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Business Technology

‘Google is aiding Chinese military’ while still on Pentagon advisory board

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The Pentagon accuses Google of aiding the Chinese military while Google's ex-CEO and current VP of wireless services are both...

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DARPA launches Polyplexus social network with 3 tech incubators

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DARPA launches a public social network called Polyplexus for research and development, which contains three incubators covering Quantum Machine Learning,...

Technology

Tech solutions to humanitarian crises from Davos to Salamanca

Tim Hinchliffe2 months ago

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Over a million migrants arrived in Europe in 2015. More than 800,000 journeyed from the sea and nearly 4,000 souls...

Technology

DARPA to exploit quantum computing without a quantum computer

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to fund research into quantum computing without having a fully-operational quantum computer....