Water on the Moon: Permanent Human Habitat Next
Nasa’s experiment last month to find water on the Moon was a major success, US scientists have announced. The space agency smashed a
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Bullets and Blogs: New Media and the Warfighter
5GW operations: Twitterrorism? From the US Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership and The SecDev Group comes “Bullets and Blogs: New Media
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Security and Privacy Risks with Household Robots
WowWee Rovio Imagine purchasing a new Rovio robot. This wheeled mobile robot sports a webcam and can be accessed easily through the internet.
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UK leak warns of growing Chinese tech spying
A document recently leaked by the website Wikileaks has revealed the concerns of British intelligence agencies about the focus of Chinese spies increasing
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The Political Roots of “Overhumanism”
This paper argues that the emergence of “overhumanism”* in Italy is a troubling development, both for Italian and international transhumanism, due to overhumanism’s
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Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging
It may be the ultimate free lunch — how to reap all the advantages of a calorically restricted diet, including freedom from disease
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Robots to get their own operating system
Image: Aldebaran Robotics THE UBot whizzes around a carpeted conference room on its Segway-like wheels, holding aloft a yellow balloon. It hands the
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Japan’s Cyberdyne shows of new robot suit in Tokyo
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT7IXfcifHE] Cyberdyne said its 22 pound (10 kilogram) HAL – short for hybrid assistive limb – is equipped with sensors that read brain
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Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk
John Arquilla It would have been the most far-reaching case of computer sabotage in history. In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies
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Scientists fear a revolt by killer robots
Advances in artificial intelligence promise many benefits, but scientists are privately so worried they may be creating machines which end up outsmarting —
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