Researchers warn hackers could sabotage 4D printed products to cause catastrophic failures
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 4D printing lets us create morphing products with special on demand properties which could be sabotaged to cause deadly failures. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
New AI computer vision system detects malware with staggering accuracy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The use of machine vision, using computers to “see” malware and cyber threats, is revolutionary and possible game changing. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
The US Army is training to take down real life hunter killer Terminator robots
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of war will be autonomous and machine versus machine versus humans, so the US military’s getting ready for future wars where the rules have changed … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
In a world first Chinese hackers spoofed biometric authentication systems to steal $76 Million
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You can change your password but you can’t change your face… and biometric authentication systems are now being hacked at scale. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
QRate uses QKD quantum tech to prevent autonomous vehicles being hacked
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When someone hacks your connected toaster it’s a nuisance, but when someone takes control of millions of connected cars and crashes them into one another it’s a bigger problem – now there’s a solution to prevent that. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...
The US military’s Active Denial System is a 95Ghz heat ray weapon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Ray guns and heat rays are often thought of as sci-fi but both are very real … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Earlier in...
China’s hypersonic missile circled Earth at 21,000mph and smashed its target
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hypersonic weapons change the global balance of military power, and China and Russia are way ahead of the US. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
US military launches cube sats to test new anti-hypersonic weapons tech
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Currently there are no defenses against hypersonic weapons and the US military is desperately trying to build them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The US military has a problem that it’s...
Meet Arrow the world’s first and only supersonic drone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s drones are slow and kind of dumb, tomorrow’s are fast and smart – and they’re going to get faster and smarter … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Drones are getting...
New microwave weapon THOR helps the USAF defeat drone swarms in seconds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future swarms of weaponised drones will over run battle fields so the world’s military’s need new defensive weapons. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In a frightening video scenario swarms...
An autonomous US Navy Stingray drone successfully refuelled an F-18 in mid flight
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of war will eventually be autonomous – and every new technological development is helping bring it closer to becoming a reality. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Around the world...
For the first time the UN believes a hunter killer drone autonomously killed humans in battle
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We already have the technology to create fully autonomous weapons systems that can hunt and kill targets, as well as the ability to create fully autonomous kill chains, but this is the first example of one being used. Possibly. Love the Exponential Future? Join...
A tiny self-erasing computer chip could improve your company’s security
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If it’s connected it’s vulnerable to attack, and in the future everything is connected so we need new security technologies … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When I used to work...
US stealth ship reaches insane speeds to out race everything in the ocean
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By reducing the water friction ships and torpedoes can reach speeds that even make even the fastest cars look slow by comparison. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Some boats are fast,...
This genetic kill switch prevents genetically modified organisms from escaping
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Genetically modifying organisms is easier than ever before, but controlling how those organisms behave or spread is a major problem still. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Genetically modified organisms, as well...
500 hackers spent three months trying to hack a radical new computer chip and failed
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cyber attacks will only get bigger and bolder and today’s technologies can’t stop them. The MORPHEUS computer chip is a radical new solution that so far hasn’t been hacked. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
Researchers taught an AI to successfully detect people’s moral principles
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to determine a persons moral principles lays the foundation for a whole new method to pre approve, censor, and vet people – and it’s as dangerous as it is interesting. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
Scientists turned the human body into a data network to advance cyber security
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Security and especially cyber security are all going to need new technologies to keep people and systems safe, and this new “human network” is yet another example of human ingenuity in action. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
Russians latest military exoskeleton controls drone swarms and survives landmines
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As technologies continue to mature and miniaturise we’re reaching the point where we can embed AI and compute into clothing and use our minds to control swarms of drones. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential...
Researchers show stealing an AI is ridiculously easy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is the electricity that powers the world’s digital fabric, and stealing another companies AI is easier than you might think. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the field of...
