Written by: Cooper Stewart Unless you have lived under a rock for the last year, you have most likely come across content from the popular social media video app “TikTok”. The app enables its users to share short videos of themselves that can be set to music and edited in various ways. Whether you fall…
Category: Technology
The Race to Being Artificially Intelligent
Written by: Sourish Kundu We are well in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, consisting of the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Countries across the world are developing AI in hopes of bettering the lives of their citizens and to expand their footing on the international stage. While President Trump’s campaign slogan was all…
Fiji’s Online Safety Act: A ‘Trojan Horse’ for Internet Censorship
By: Jack Urban In May 2018, the Republic of Fiji, led by Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, passed into law landmark legislation geared toward creating a safe online environment free of cyberbullying, cyberstalking, trolling, fake news, harassment, and revenge porn. Despite this, the Online Safety Act (OSA) failed to get any opposition party member’s vote. Why?…
The Future of Drones and Policing
Written by: Adrian Arcoleo In a previous article, I discussed the threat of drone technologies co-opted by terrorist organizations. Bad actors, however, are not the only ones who are acquiring drone technology. Drones are becoming increasingly prevalent in police departments around the world. These departments claim drones will allow them to more effectively fight crime…
Letting Slip the Drones of (Air) War
Written by: Adrian Douglas Arcoleo In September, a government official revealed that an MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) conducted its first air-to-air kill. The event took place in a controlled simulation against another small, unmanned aerial vehicle using an infrared, or heat-seeking, short-range missile, most likely an AIM-9 Sidewinder. Col. Julian Cheater, commander of…
Tomorrow’s Warfare, Held Back By Today
Written by: Sam Buisman Entering into a war is like stepping into a river: while the environment is familiar, your immediate surroundings are constantly changing. War always involves a number of opposing parties engaged in armed conflict, but the means by which it is waged have changed drastically over time. “Armed” embodies a different definition…
Space: The New Military Frontier
Written by: Jason Geissler “There is no war in space, just as there is no war in cyberspace. There is only war, and war can extend into any domain.” General John Hyten, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command Despite numerous treaties over the last half-century to prevent the militarization of outer space, the world’s superpowers have been…
Bitcoin: Too Early to Talk About Future of the Currency?
Written by: Soeun Lee The price of Bitcoin hit $17,000 on Thursday, December 7. Starting from below $1,000 in the beginning of the year, it has reached $14,000, $15,000, and even $19,000 all in seven days. The market value of Bitcoin has passed $271 billion, which is greater than 488 of the Standard & Poor’s…
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