Digital identity and Microsoft’s move for a blockchain-based ID system
Microsoft is building a digital identity system on the Bitcoin blockchain. Here we take a look at digital identity and...
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Weight loss, diabetes will dominate digital therapeutics market: report
Digital therapeutics is booming with research and application. More and more patients, physicians, and health-aware citizens across the world are...
Vancouver’s race to become North America’s next big tech ecosystem
Vancouver's tech scene continues to develop. The city, ranked third for quality of living in the world by Mercer, the only North...
Bitcoin back in bull market, holding price tops $8K
This week Bitcoin is back in a bull market. Last time around, the cryptocurrency and its ecosystem failed miserably in...
US intelligence wants to monitor planetwide ‘construction’ sites from space
The US intelligence community is looking for proposals for an IARPA program that monitors planetwide "anthropogenic activities" such as construction...
Electric vehicles and IoT revive copper, lithium, and cobalt mining demand
As a company that requires Earth's minerals for its tech, Tesla is voicing concerns over the shortage of battery minerals,...
Set to outrun the rest: South Korea’s race to lead the world in blockchain adoption
If you read the headlines at the end of 2018 reporting on the ban on ICOs in South Korea, you...
In-Q-Tel partners with Outlier.ai to identify unexpected patterns in govt data sets
US intelligence community funding arm In-Q-Tel (IQT) announces a strategic partnership with Outlier to identify unexpected patterns in government agency...
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In-Q-Tel taps cloud security expert Sysdig to modernize govt agencies
Barely a month after announcing a new approach to cloud visibility and security, Sysdig is tapped by the Intelligence Community...
Medical delivery drones are creating cross-industry job opportunities
Last month marked the first time an organ was delivered to a patient via a drone, which utilized the combined...
Govt Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge offers $250K to predict the future
How many missile test events will North Korea conduct in August 2019? Will there be a locally-transmitted case of the Zika...
DARPA is turning soldiers’ skin into a mosquito repellent
Screw malaria pills, says DARPA; let's engineer your skin microbiome to keep those pesky mosquitoes and their rampant diseases at...
Your personal data is yours to sell
If personal data is big business, shouldn’t we be the ones getting paid for it? We look at the options...
Unattended bots to take on govt jobs without ‘standard work hours’
Internal bots are a great success for organizations looking to speed up the organizational tasks, and soon unattended bots are...
DARPA tests its chemical threat sensors at the Indy 500
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announces the results of its chemical threat sensors it deployed at the Indy 500....
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The broadening appeal of synthetic speech use cases
Neuroscientists at University College San Francisco (UCSF) have created a brain-computer interface that can generate speech through brain activity. It is...
‘Privacy is a myth’: AI for surveillance startup Wobot CPO
Wobot Intelligence Chief Product Officer (CPO) Tanay Dixit talks with The Sociable about privacy in the age of mass surveillance from the...
US military prepping robots for underground combat, emergencies
Use of underground tunnels and catacombs has often been used by terror outfits to render military technology above ground almost...
When private companies gain access to ‘classified space’
Powerful private players like Microsoft and Amazon have been working on building sensitive intelligence related tools for the government’s intelligence...
Should govt be transparent about its facial recognition use?
Government transparency in deploying facial recognition software could gain more acceptance among citizens than trying to use it behind their...
