June 2010
26 posts
U.S. Supply Chain Relies on Warlord Payoffs →
bloomberg.com
Contractors on a $2.1 billion job trucking U.S. supplies into Afghanistan are paying millions of dollars in protection money to warlords controlling their routes, according to a congressional report entitled “Warlord Inc.: Extortion and Corruption along the U.S. Supply Chain.”
Blogs and tweets could predict the future
Johan Bollen and his colleagues at Indiana University in Bloomington have created an anxiety rating based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of tweets by people in the US. Their paper has not yet been published, but Bollen says they too found that increases in anxiety on their scale correlated with lower than expected stock prices. “We’re astounded,” he says. “We didn’t think it would be a predictive relationship.” - New Scientist
The Cyber Defence Capital →
monocle.com
A former Tsarist army barracks in the Estonian capital Tallinn may seem an unlikely base for honing the West’s response to the newest strategic threat: cyber warfare.
But behind the thick, bare-brick walls, cyber warfare specialists from eight NATO countries, including the US and Estonia’s neighbours Latvia and Lithuania, are working to protect the critical infrastructure systems on which we all rely, from water and electricity to internet connectivity, from disruption and attack.
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PART-HUMAN, PART-MACHINE TRANSISTOR DEVISED
By embedding a nano-sized transistor inside a cell-like membrane, scientists link humans and machines more intimately than ever.
Scientists embedded a biologically powered transistor inside a cell membrane.
The device is the most intimate binding of man and machine yet achieved.
The research could lead to new man-machine interfaces.
Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised : Discovery News
