Thought-reading AI helps a person with quadriplegia play Guitar Hero  Popular Science

A recently updated interface can teach itself to read Ian Burkhart’s thoughts, and move his paralyzed hand accordingly.

Brain-Computer Interface: A Fun Experiment or The First Step to Transcendence  University Herald

Brain-Computer Interface: A Fun Experiment or The First Step to Transcendence How do you control your computers today? Most of them, through a keyboard …

DCS 2018: Laser weapon ramp ‘inevitable and imperative’  Optics.org

18 Apr 2018. Directed energy weapons are ideal for the military but more development and investment is needed, says Trey Obering in a defense plenary in …

NSA-branded webcam covers are see-through  The INQUIRER

SPEND MORE than five minutes at any tech show and you’ll probably be offered a set of branded webcam covers. The small plastic devices are designed to …

Huawei Claims U.S. Onslaught Is Because Their 5G Technology Prevents Widespread NSA Spying  Forbes

In a well-choreographed attack, Huawei has claimed that the reason for such intense U.S. lobbying against them is that they will prevent Washington’s own …

Zumwalt Close to Losing Gun, But Open to EW and Directed Energy  Breaking Defense

WASHINGTON: The once-revolutionary prospects of the Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer continue to be whittled away. Having lost some of its touted stealth …

Huawei chairman accuses American critics of hypocrisy over NSA hacks  The Verge

Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping has gone on the offensive this week at Mobile World Congress, following continued pressure on US allies to drop the …

Carriers selling your location data: It was worse than we thought  The Verge

Remember last month when we learned that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint had not immediately fulfilled their promises to stop selling the real-time location of your …

Directed Energy Systems to Be Developed – iHLS  i-HLS – Israel Homeland Security

This post is also available in: he עברית (Hebrew). The US has been enhancing its Directed-Energy (DE) capabilities aimed at countering threats posed by …

YouTube Lets California Fire Conspiracy Theories Run Wild  Motherboard

Conspiracy theory vloggers have been able to easily manipulate YouTube and amass millions of views that provide a flagrantly false narrative about the disaster …