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Militaries are plundering sci-fi for technology ideas
Military planning is a complicated endeavor, calling upon experts in logistics and infrastructure to predict resource availability and technological advancements. Long-range military planning, decidin...

Canada’s balloon-based SuperBIT telescope could rival NASA’s Hubble next year
Carried on a helium balloon the size of a football stadium, a revolutionary new telescope could forever change the way we carry out our explorations of the Cosmos. Flying at an altitude of 40 km (25 m...

What is entanglement in quantum physics? We’ll explain in under 5 minutes
Quantum computers, quantum cryptography, and quantum (insert name here) are often in the news these days. Articles about them inevitably refer to entanglement, a property of quantum physics that makes...

Sexual predators are targeting vulnerable teens through online ‘anorexia coaching’
There’s no shortage of people online looking to exploit and manipulate the vulnerable among us. One such group is anorexia coaches, or “anacoaches”. They are typically middle-aged, male sexual p...

Yeah, you should worry about the booming spyware industry
The world’s most sophisticated commercially available spyware may be being abused, according to an investigation by 17 media organizations in ten countries. Intelligence leaks and forensic phone ana...

How blockchain, NFTs, and on-demand satellites are saving Africa’s wildlife
Satellite virtualization solutions firm Exodus Orbitals Inc. has announced its partnership with the Lady Rocket Foundation to apply satellite technology and NFTs to better protect African wildlife aga...

Studies of ‘Marsquakes’ reveal the red planet’s metallic innards
We may have walked on the Moon and sent probes across the solar system, but we know very little about what’s going on inside other planets. Now, for the first time, we have been able to view the int...

This AI can spot sunken ships from the damn sky
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea In collaboration with the United States Navy’s Underwater Archaeology Branch, I taught a computer how to recognize sh...

Can we build a computer with free will?
Do you have free will? Can you make your own decisions? Or are you more like an automaton, just moving as required by your constituent parts? Probably, like most people, you feel you have something ca...

Object-oriented programming is dead. Wait, really?
Programming in the 1960s had a big problem: computers weren’t that powerful yet, and somehow they needed to split the capacities between data structures and procedures. This meant that if you had ...

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