Berkeley researchers replace passwords with passthoughts by reading your mind
By Sebastian Anthony | Extreme Tech In the future, instead of trying to type your mixed-case, numbers-and-punctuation on a painfully small smartphone screen, logging in might be as simple as thinking of your password — or passthoughts, if you will. This finding, which comes from UC Berkeley, essentially turns your brain activity into a biometric identifier. In much [...]
Read More →Transistors Made of DNA and RNA: Stanford’s Newly Created Biological Computer
By Catherine Griffin | Science World Report Computers have continuously evolved since their first creation. They’ve gone from being made out of vacuum tubes and electricity to transistors made from semiconducting materials. Now, scientists propose another step on this evolutionary path–using DNA and RNA in the place of gears and electrons. A team of bioengineers from Stanford [...]
Read More →New Brain Implant Transmits Wirelessly To Computer
By Peter Murray | Singularity Hub Scientists at Brown University have made brain-machine interfaces that are even more hip that BMIs researchers are using now. Like an upgrade from landlines to cell phones, their new device can record and transmit brain signals to a computer wirelessly. Free from onerous connections and wires, the technology could foster the [...]
Read More →So It Begins: Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves
By Robert Beckhusen | Wired The Pentagon’s blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year project to boost artificial intelligence systems by building machines that can teach themselves — while making it easier for ordinary schlubs like us to build them, too. When Darpa talks about artificial intelligence, it’s not talking about modeling computers after the [...]
Read More →Military Cyber Strike Teams Will Soon Guard Private Networks
By Aliya Sternstein | NextGov Cyber Command aims to deploy by September all 13 cyberwarrior teams capable of striking adversary networks to deflect assaults on U.S. private computers, Pentagon officials said this week. Last week, Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the command, provided lawmakers with a vague timeline for fleshing out three cyber forces, each with [...]
Read More →New $1.6 billion supercomputer project will attempt to simulate the human brain
By George Dvorsky | io9 In what is the largest and most significant effort to re-create the human brain to date, an international group of researchers has secured $1.6 billion to fund the incredibly ambitious Human Brain Project. For the next ten years, scientists from various disciplines will seek to understand and map the network of over [...]
Read More →Revealed: NSA targeting domestic computer systems in secret test
By Declan McCullagh | CNET Newly released files show a secret National Security Agency program is targeting the computerized systems that control utilities to discover security vulnerabilities, which can be used to defend the United States or disrupt the infrastructure of other nations. The NSA’s so-called Perfect Citizen program conducts “vulnerability exploration and research” against the [...]
Read More →ORNL debuts Titan supercomputer
Science Codex The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops—by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 [...]
Read More →How To Conceal Your Face From Machines
By Jacob Sloan | Disinfo CV Dazzle is a project to develop a toolkit of styling and beauty-based methods to fight back against camera and computer facial recognition, allowing you to hide in plain sight: The primary objective [is] thwarting face detection under the guise of high-fashion aesthetics. While there are several obvious approaches to hiding [...]
Read More →Artificial universe resembling ours created inside supercomputer
ANI Building a universe from scratch that brims with galaxies resembling those around us is now possible on supercomputers for the first time, according to researchers. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy with a broad disk and outstretched arms, as are many in our cosmic neighbourhood, such as Andromeda, the Pinwheel and [...]
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