The Washington Times | By: Andrew Blake | Friday, June 23, 2017: Russian lawmakers on Friday unanimously approved the first reading of legislation outlawing virtual private network (VPN) services and other technologies that let internet users bypass Moscow’s ever-expanding blacklist of banned websites. Lawmakers in the State Duma, the lower Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jack Nicas | June 23, 2017 | 3:45 p.m. ET: Tech giant says move is to bring free Gmail service in line with corporate offering. Google said its computers will soon stop reading the emails of its Gmail users to personalize their ads, a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Betsy Morris Updated June 23, 2017 8:56 a.m. ET: Apple’s iPhone gave rise to whole new industries and laid waste to others. As the device turns 10, we take stock of its impact on everything from cameras to telecoms. Ten years ago, hailing a Read more…
Capital Ideas | Online Articles: Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative and disruptive advancement since the Industrial Revolution. After decades of hype and disappointment, AI is poised to fuel the next wave of innovation, and potentially provide unprecedented opportunities for companies and investors. “The world is on the cusp Read more…
Renewable Energy Magazine | Panorama | Friday, 23 June 2017: The investment facility (of ADB) supports a series of renewable energy projects and sector reforms in the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, the Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Read more…
IBM | Security Intelligence | By: Christophe Veltsos | Originally Published May 22, 2017: “There are over 5 million jobs open in this country. The reason they are not filled is skills.” — Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO, speaking to Fox Business about new collar jobs. Organizations are suffering from an Read more…
Reuters | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | 5:30am EDT: Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Read more…
GPE Original Article | By: Ray Murray | 23rd June 2017: In May 2016, an article was published on the BBC Global News website, “BBC Capital”. The article by Renuka Rayasamon was entitled, “Even Desert City Dubai Imports Its Sand. This Is Why.” Some of the key points which the Read more…
Reuters | By: Anna Irrera | Mon Jun 19, 2017 | 1:40pm EDT: Accenture Plc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents. Read more…
Nextgov | By: Keith Collins | June 17, 2017: For the past four months, WikiLeaks has been slowly publishing a series of documents that describe a plethora of hacking tools, which the anti-secrecy organization says belong to the Central Intelligence Agency. The latest release, published June 15, is a batch Read more…
Defense One | By: Michael Breen and Sherri Goodman | June 16, 2017: In the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris Climate Agreement, governors, mayors, businesses, and people across the country have declared that they still support the agreement. They know Read more…
Nextgov | By: Mohana Ravindranath | June 16, 2017: The (US) Energy Department is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in researching powerful but energy-efficient computers. The department is awarding $258 million in research contracts to six companies developing supercomputing technology. Over the next three years, those companies are expected Read more…
Sageret | Verosvres (France)| 2 June 2017 (AFP): In an immense warehouse, an ocean of blond wood. Raised by winches, huge wooden beams will soon support higher and higher buildings and ambitious buildings such as the Cité du Vin de Bordeaux or the cathedral of Créteil. Here, “glued-laminated” beams are Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Josh Chin Updated June 15, 2017 11:11 p.m. ET: Team beams particles from space in advance for quantum communications. Chinese scientists have succeeded in sending specially linked pairs of light particles from space to Earth, an achievement experts in the field say gives China Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Sam Schechner Updated June 15, 2017 3:57 p.m. ET: New software is tasked with identifying videos, photos, language and users that need to be removed, at times without human moderators. Under intense political pressure to better block terrorist propaganda on the internet, Facebook Inc. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Susan Carey | Updated June 14, 2017 4:07 p.m. ET: Head of European Aviation Safety Agency highlights potential fire hazards with U.S. plans to relegate passenger laptops to cargo holds. Europe’s top air-safety regulator issued the most explicit criticism yet of U.S. proposals to Read more…
Video By IBM – Blockchain Explained. Reuters | Technology News | By: Suzanne Barlyn | Wed Jun 14, 2017 | 7:55pm EDT: Insurer American International Group Inc (AIG.N) has partnered with International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) to develop a “smart” insurance policy that uses blockchain to manage complex international coverage, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan | Updated June 12, 2017 4:05 p.m. ET: Crashoverride took out electricity in Ukraine’s capital last year and could be repurposed to target U.S. systems. Computer-security researchers said Sunday they have discovered the malicious software that knocked out electricity in Ukraine’s capital Read more…
The FCPA BLog | Artificial Intelligence | By: Dan Adamson | Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:08AM: Just 15 years ago, due diligence researchers might spend hours retrieving documents from courthouses and sifting through microfiche at libraries. As recently as 2010, they could go through six to 12 months of Read more…
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Reuters | By: Julia Fioretti | Thu Jun 8, 2017 | 1:18pm EDT: The European Union wants to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to get electronic evidence directly from tech companies, such as Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, even when stored in another European country. Read more…
Wall Street Journal | By: Yang Jie and Josh Chin | June 7, 2017 9:38 a.m. ET: Foreign technology companies said they were uncertain how the new law would affect their operations. BEIJING—A week after China’s first cybersecurity law took effect, an investigation over the alleged theft and sale of Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Mike Cherney | June 7, 2017 | 10:01 a.m. ET: In Cambodia, monkeys destroyed its equipment. ULURU, Australia—Google is coming across some unusual challenges as it seeks to capture eye-level imagery of the most remote parts of the globe. In a recent foray into Read more…
Accenture Consulting | June 2017: Distributed generation is playing an increasingly important role in energy systems across the world, driven by the sustainability agenda, energy independence concerns and increasingly favorable economics. There is overwhelming evidence that this trend will continue. We are seeing consumers showing growing interest in installing renewable Read more…
Financial Times | 6th June 2017: Lack of investment in renewables threatens national security, warns military think-tank. The US is falling behind other countries in advanced energy technologies, threatening national security and undermining its global influence, former generals and admirals in the US military are warning the Trump administration. The Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Aarti Maharaj | Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 8:22AM: A new survey found that Chief Compliance and Ethics Officers are struggling to effectively aggregate and analyze data due in part to outdated technology and a lack of available tools at their disposal. The 2017 Ethics Read more…
Wall Street Journal | By: Betsy Morris June 5, 2017 8:00 a.m. ET: While consumer sales remain low, industries from construction to medicine are using the technology to train for risky jobs. Gary Steinberg, Stanford University’s head of neurosurgery, has been operating on brains for more than three decades. Only Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology News | By: Philip J. Jasper | May 25 2017: Recently, the U.S. Defense Department stepped up its outreach to commercial technology companies to ensure that its warfighters have access to the latest innovation and capabilities. Based on my experience, U.S. commercial industry enthusiastically supports Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Michael Bruno | May 5 2017: Data Crunch: All the talk is about the rise of big data at aerospace industry gatherings. Forget about new pilots, engines and maintainers—apparently what the aerospace and defense world needs most is data scientists. Big data—the mining, Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Hayley Tsukayama | June 1 2017: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg faced sharp criticism Thursday during the company’s annual shareholders meeting about how the company operates, deals with violence and handles fake news. Shareholders submitted five proposals critical of the company’s top-heavy structure, as well Read more…
Mining Weekly | By Keith Campbell | 2nd June 2017: JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – At last month’s International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, held at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in Pretoria, one of the very many topics addressed was the use of remote sensing, particularly Read more…
Defense One | By: Mohana Ravindranath | June 1, 2017: The Facebook algorithm that auto-tags people in photographs might be slightly creepy, but also of interest to the intelligence community. The IC’s research and development unit is hosting a new contest in search of the best facial recognition algorithms that Read more…
Waterworld | By: Alanna Maya | Assistant Editor: Access to safe drinking water is a global crisis, which is why developing new, innovative ways to convert river water, wastewater and agricultural waste into clean water is critical. Thanks to new innovations in the field of treatment, promising technologies could eliminate Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Alexandre de Juniac | May 30, 2017 3:36 p.m. ET: Airlines have considerable expertise on safety and security matters. Governments should tap it. As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security considers expanding its ban on laptops and other large portable electronic devices from the Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Aaron Karp | 31 May 2017: A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 flying transcontinental made an emergency landing May 30 in Grand Rapids, Michigan after a passenger’s laptop computer emitted smoke. Flight 915 operating from New York JFK to San Francisco was diverted “following reports of Read more…
AEC Magazine |Published: 30 May 2017: Built in 1949, the Pinto Creek Bridge is a historic crossing on Highway 60, an hour and a half east of Phoenix, Arizona at the foothills of the Tonto National Forest. Built as part of President Roosevelt’s public works initiative, the steel arch bridge Read more…
Vox | By: Zeeshan Aleem May 26, 2017, 8:50am EDT: BEIJING — In 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos used a 60 Minutes segment to demonstrate his company’s newest innovation: a drone that he said would be capable of delivering packages to a customer’s doorsteps within 30 minutes of an order. Read more…
NextGov | By: Caitlin Fairchild | May 26, 2017 Password manager service 1Password has introduced a new feature designed to protect the privacy of people traveling abroad. The Trump administration has attempted to introduce new security procedures for people coming into the United States, such as requiring them to hand Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Renewable Energy World Editors | May 26, 2017: On Friday, May 26, on what was expected to be one of the hottest days of the year, solar panels in the UK generated a record amount of power, enough to meet almost 25 percent of demand. Read more…
Financial Times | May 26th 2017: The Blackstone-Saudi deal can help the president deliver his campaign promise. When the White House caravan headed to the Arabian Desert last weekend, Donald Trump’s team were keen to score big “wins”. Stephen Schwarzman, head of the president’s business advisory council, duly obliged: on Read more…
American Affairs Journal | By: Travis Kavulla: Electricity is an input in virtually everything we do as a modern society. Few Americans remember what it was like to live without it and its attendant benefits on quality of life, labor productivity, and human health. Electricity is today largely taken for Read more…
Rotor And Wing International | By: S.L. Fuller | May 23, 2017: A U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., recently ruled that the FAA cannot require unmanned aircraft system (UAS) hobbyists to register their drones under a December 2015 rule. No registration means no information and no efficient way Read more…
Data & Society Research Institute | By: Alice Marwick and Rebecca Lewis: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Internet subcultures take advantage of the current media ecosystem to manipulate news frames, set agendas, and propagate ideas: Far-right groups have developed techniques of “attention hacking” to increase the visibility of their ideas through the strategic Read more…
Defense One | By: Mohana Ravindranath | May 22, 2017: While the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency keeps its operations secret, it’s looking into the some of the country’s flashiest technology hotbeds for new ideas. The spy agency, whose mapping projects are used in combat support and general intelligence operations, has been Read more…
Bankingtech.com | By: Antony Peyton | 23 May, 2017: Corporate treasurers have a moment to treasure as Swift has unveiled its new cross-border payments “Tracker” for real-time tracing. Swift says Tracker is the “cornerstone” of its global payments innovation (gpi) initiative – which went live in February – with the Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Tom Ewing | May 22, 2017: In the U.K., National Grid (NG) is the utility that owns the high voltage electricity network in England and Wales. It is also one of four British gas distribution companies. It’s a big player — “joining everything up” (NG Read more…
ESR | Latest News: How can past criminal case data help justice today and in the future? ESR’s Forensic Intelligence project is currently developing ways to enhance the value of forensic science to the justice system. The six month pilot project is a collaboration between ESR’s Jeff Foote and Graeme Read more…
Source: Xinhua| 2017-05-21 03:29:21|Editor: Yamei: Stanford University electrical engineering Professor Jelena Vuckovic and colleagues at her laboratory are working on new materials that could become the basis for quantum computing. While silicon transistors in traditional computers push electricity through devices to create digital ones and zeros, quantum computers work by Read more…
Reuters | Technology News | Fri May 19, 2017 | 3:31pm EDT: Ford Motor Co said on Friday it would delve into the growing arena of “over-the-air” software updates, adding Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to its Sync 3-equipped 2016 vehicles for the first time via a wireless software update. Read more…
Reuters | Technology News | By: Andrew Torchia | Sun May 21, 2017 | 11:02am EDT: The world’s largest private equity fund, backed by Japan’s Softbank Group and Saudi Arabia’s main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised over $93 billion to invest in technology sectors such as Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Graham Warwick | May 15 – 28 2017: Airbus, Boeing and Lockheed push to break into the commercial unmanned—aircraft market the growing commercial unmanned aircraft market, but rather than developing new vehicles they are targeting the business of providing services to large customers. Read more…
Fox News | By: Elizabeth Llorente | May 15, 2017: The GPS has increasingly become a drug dealer’s new partner in crime. Drug-smuggling groups are relying on the device to keep tabs on drug packages as they wind their way through Central America to the United States, according to published Read more…
An Intelligence in Our Image | The Risks of Bias and Errors in Artificial Intelligence: Rand Corporation: By: Osonde A. Osoba, William Welser IV: Machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence systems influence many aspects of people’s lives: news articles, movies to watch, people to spend time with, access to credit, Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | Graham Warwick and John Croft | Apr 28, 2017: An AeroVironment Puma AE small unmanned aircraft inspected a dozen miles of power lines in rural Virginia in April to demonstrate flights beyond the operator’s line of sight. The FAA issued a “Drotam” to alert Read more…
By John Moody | Published May 09, 2017 | Fox News: A fascinating battle is shaping up between two American entrepreneurs for control of a desert mine in California that could be the key to reviving domestic production of rare earths, the metals and materials that are critical to our Read more…
Helen Massy-Beresford | Paris | Aviation Week | May 1-14, 2017: Airlines are able to deal more efficiently with disruptions in scheduling thanks to the social media revolution. Most passengers possess smartphones and endless apps so, ideally, keeping travelers apprised (and sanguine) about delays is easy to accomplish. But this Read more…
By: John Croft | Washington | Aviation Week | May 1-14, 2017: With a blizzard set to slam the Northeast U.S. on a Monday night in mid-March, airlines on the preceding Saturday began pre-emptively canceling flights. Flight-tracking website Flightaware.com listed more than 9,000 operations that had been canceled between Sunday Read more…
Techcrunch | By: Matt Burns | May 8, 2017: Parrot today announced packages for its consumer drones aimed at small businesses. The company has long served the professional market, but this announcement repositions the Bebop and Disco drones as off-the-shelf solutions for 3D modeling, mapping and agricultural uses. After all, Read more…