BBC journalist Matt Frei presents a brief but enlightening layout of the forces at work in US/Iranian relations. It’s more complicated than …
Continue reading Inside Iran: What are we heading for, and why?
I wonder how many times mistakes like this happen these days, when PR disaster is often just a click or …
Continue reading Microsoft Sends Secret Dossier on Reporter, to Reporter
The leading manufacturer of night vision gear for the Defense Department has admitted sending classified materials overseas and will pay …
Continue reading Defense Contractor fined $100M for sharing classified secrets
According to McCain, the surge is working! And the streets of Baghdad are safe for Americans to go strolling down. …
Continue reading “I dont know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about…”
An excellent little article by Chris Chatham that puts a lot of common misconceptions about the future of AI into …
Continue reading 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
A Glimpse into Government Radley Balko, March 26, 2007 The one useful thing to come of all of this is …
Continue reading What those Justice Department emails really reveal.
The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), from which U.S Watch Lists are drawn from, has grown to the point that …
Continue reading Terror database spiraling out of control, criticized for inaccuracies
One of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided …
Jeff Hawkins invented the Palm Pilot and wrote a book called ‘On Intelligence’. Now he has founded Numenta – a …
Continue reading Numenta – Has Artificial Intelligence Arrived?
Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain’s staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template …
Update: This is an old, old post, but it’s getting a number of views, so here’s an update… All of …
Continue reading 2008 Presidential Candidates by Number of MySpace Friends
TIME’s cover story in every edition but the American one is “Talibanistan”, a story about the resurgence of the Taliban. …
Continue reading Time Magazine Prints Different Cover For US Edition
