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Dec 9, 2020

Virgin Orbit will carry 10 cubesats on its LauncherOne Demo 2 flight this month

Posted by in category: satellites

The launch window for Virgin Orbit’s Demo 2 mission will run from Dec. 19 to 20.

Dec 9, 2020

Fighting The Opioid Epidemic with AI — Brian Drake, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) — Sable Spear

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, military, privacy, robotics/AI, terrorism

Today we are going to discuss the topic drug enforcement from a very interesting technological angle.

Brian Drake, is the Director of Artificial Intelligence for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Directorate of Science and Technology. Mr. Drake works with the DIA’s Future Capabilities and Innovation Office, and he also leads an initiative to test the effectiveness of different applications of artificial intelligence at solving various mission problems, including using AI to combat the opioid crisis with a DIA program known as SABLE SPEAR.

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Dec 9, 2020

French army gets ethical go-ahead for bionic soldiers

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, ethics, military, neuroscience, transhumanism

The French armed forces now have permission to develop “augmented soldiers” following a report from a military ethics committee.

The report, released to the public on Tuesday, considers medical treatments, prosthetics and implants that improve “physical, cognitive, perceptive and psychological capacities,” and could allow for location tracking or connectivity with weapons systems and other soldiers.

Dec 9, 2020

Hurling Satellites Into Space Seems Crazy—but Might Just Work

Posted by in categories: physics, satellites

😃 So the old ways still work!


A startup called SpinLaunch wants to do away with costly launch rockets. Let’s look at the physics.

Dec 9, 2020

The doctor claiming land on Mars using lasers

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Phil Davies leads a global campaign to claim ownership of the planet by improving its atmosphere.

Dec 9, 2020

Small Modular Reactors Explained — Nuclear Power’s Future?

Posted by in categories: futurism, nuclear energy

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Dec 9, 2020

A Common Weed May Be a New Breast Cancer Treatment

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Thale cress may be the answer!

Dec 8, 2020

Hackers Breached Israeli Water Reservoir HMI System

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, cyborgs, internet

Hackers with possible links to Iran appear to have breached an unprotected human-machine interface system at an Israeli water reservoir that connected directly to the internet and lacked security protocols, according to industrial cybersecurity firm Otorio.

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The security firm reports that the alleged Iranian hacking group, referred to as “Unidentified TEAM,” published a video of the attack on an unnamed reclaimed Israeli water reservoir human-machine interface (HMI) system, which did not require any authentication to access and modify the system. This allowed the threat actors to tamper with the water pressure, change temperatures and more.

Dec 8, 2020

Boeing, Kratos To Build Skyborg Drones For Air Force Experiments

Posted by in categories: drones, military

Drone stocks Boeing (BA) and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) received Air Force awarded contracts for its Skyborg combat drone experiment.

Dec 8, 2020

Emerging Technology That Will Change Our World

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones

There are technologies just around the corner which will change the world, and our lives, massively, and for the better…in ways many cannot even start to imagine.

So in have done just that.

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