Why We Should Stop Conflating Cities With Innovation and Creativity

COMMENTARY | The language we use to discuss innovation and creativity has such a pro-urban bias that we’ve forgotten these qualities flourish outside of cities, too.

Digital sandtable helps CBP visualize terrain

The Augmented Reality Sandtable creates a 3D map of any given terrain so agents can gain situational awareness ahead of missions.

5G First Responder Lab taps 5 more public safety innovators

The program identifies companies working on lifesaving technology and gives them three months of access to Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband technology to develop, test and refine their solutions for public safety.

The main problem with virtual reality? It’s almost as humdrum as real life

Users need good reasons to leave their reality behind and immerse themselves in a virtual one.

Terahertz laser to power 'T-ray' vision and high-bandwidth communications

Researchers have developed a compact, room temperature, widely tunable laser with potential for high-bandwidth communications, ultrahigh-resolution imaging and precise long-range sensing for radio astronomy.

Virtual tools, real fires: How holograms and other tech could help outsmart bushfires

Emerging technologies integrated into existing responder systems can relay more strategically targeted information to local authorities who need it.

Blockchain to help CBP track Canadian energy imports

By adapting a Canadian firm’s blockchain application, Customs and Border Protection will be able to track oil and natural gas shipments along with other imported commodities.

Taking the fast track to better CBRN detection

With the upgraded system, the sensor-equipped vehicles help warfighters detect chemical weapons at distances up to three times greater than the original version.

The Air Force's search engine for emerging tech solutions

The artificial intelligence-fueled database searches nontraditional companies and experts for answers to emerging technology problems.

Team hits major milestone: Quantum supremacy

While the experiment was chosen as a proof-of-concept for the computer, the research has resulted in a very real and valuable tool: a certified random number generator.

DOD's firms up 5G experimentation plans

The Pentagon is looking at facilities and use cases for large-scale experimentation and prototyping of 5G applications and spectrum sharing.

More wrong answers get quantum computers to find the right one

In quantum computers, generating more errors in a given operation may help reveal the right answer, according to new research.

Why a computer will never be truly conscious

Humans integrate and compress multiple components of an experience, including sight and smell – which simply can’t be handled in the way today’s computers sense, process and store data.

5G network now live at Mcity test facility

The University of Michigan's Mcity campus now features a 5G network for smart city autonomous vehicle safety testing.

Hackathons and challenges drum up creative solutions for responders

Crowdsourcing is delivering creative technology solutions to the responder community thanks to challenges from IBM, AT&T FirstNet and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Adaptive controllers put injured vets back in the game

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to use adaptive controllers in gaming sessions designed to assist mental and physical rehabilitation and improve socialization for veterans with limited mobility.

AI-enabled drone maps disaster victims' location, need

DroneAid uses visual recognition to detect and count SOS icons on the ground from drone video streams and automatically plots the emergency needs on a map for first responders.

Aerial threat: Why drone hacking could be bad news for the military

Drones are relatively cheap technologies for military use, but they potentially leave open opportunities for cyber criminals and perhaps even cyber warfare.

Blockchain roundup

News of potential uses (and one misuse) of distributed ledger technology.

The rocky road to 5G

Although 5G has potential to transform society, widespread use of the high-bandwidth, low-latency communications technology is still some time off.

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