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Meet the Elite Team of Superforecasters Who Have Turned Future-Gazing Into a Science
December 06, 2021
Entrepreneur Magazine - ...in 2011, [IARPA] launched a huge forecasting tournament for the public. At the beginning, there were five teams, and over the next four years,...
Scientists claim big advance in using DNA to store data
December 02, 2021
BBC News - Scientists say they have made a major step forward in efforts to store information as molecules of DNA, which are more compact and long-lasting than other options....
Battelle Developing Predictive Technology for Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to Help Identify Epidemic Security Threats
July 27, 2021
Battelle - Under a contract with IARPA, Battelle has developed a methodology called TechAware Search Continuous Automated Scanning for Technology Transformation (CASTT), which...
The Weird and Wonderful World of IARPA
May 12, 2021
U.S. Intelligence Careers - If research at the nation’s intelligence agencies is already giving the United States an edge over its adversaries by developing specialized tools or pr...
Shadow Warriors Pursuing Next-Gen Surveillance Tech
May 07, 2021
National Defense - U.S. Special Operations Command and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity are pursuing new technologies to identify and track threats. Comma...
LANL: Translation Software Enables Efficient DNA Data Storage
April 03, 2021
Los Alamos Reporter - In support of a major collaborative project to store massive amounts of data in DNA molecules, a Los Alamos National Laboratory–led team has developed a...
The languages that defy auto-translate
March 22, 2021
BBC - Imagine you come across a message that could contain life-saving information. But there's a problem: you don't understand a word. You're not even sure which of the world's th...
Do Humans Trust AI Coworkers?
March 02, 2021
USC Viterbi School of Engineering - Do humans trust AI assistants? If so, when? If not, why? Do human-AI collaborations fare better than AI or human intuition alone?... To quantify...
Intelligence community is calling on AI to ease work on analysts
January 22, 2021
Federal News Network - The intelligence community awarded four contracts to build out a program that will allow artificial intelligence to tag and track satellite images. The Space...
Intel Agencies Seek to Perfect Biometric Recognition from Drones
December 11, 2020
Nextgov - The intelligence community wants to put biometric identification technology on drones but has hit a wall when it comes to the most widely used biometric: facial reco...