Tag: INTELLIGENCE

The revolutions across the Middle East may have ushered in a new era of U.S. intelligence-gathering -- one that could even include Google. Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, an instructor at West Point, and Joshua Goldstein, from Princeton, recently used Google Trends to analyze the terms that Web users in Egypt searched at the height of the country's recent upheaval. "What we did was a comparison of ...

One thing this writer was never particularly good at was math, which is why he turned to blogging and away from a career as an electrical engineer. But researchers at the University of Oxford believe that mild electrical stimulation of the brain can actually improve math skills, for up to six months at time, without any negative side effects. Roi Cohen Kadosh, a researcher on the project, told ...

If you were meandering around Facebook or LinkedIn, and happened to stumble across the profile of a woman named Robin Sage, you'd probably be impressed. She attended a prestigious New England prep school, got a degree from MIT and, judging from her profile picture, was pretty easy on the eyes, too. All in all, she's an over-achieving geek's dream date. So, what's the catch? She's not real. ...

Share In an effort to provide a faster turnaround, the U.S. Army could replace some human intelligence officers in war zones with a complex system of computers. According to Wired, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, or the freaky arm of the US Military) is hosting a workshop for a new project dubbed Graph Understanding and Analysis for Rapid Detection - Deployed on the ...

Do you love James Bond movies and high-tech gadgets? Are you often referred to as "grotesquely smart?" If so, then you might be interested to know that the Security Service (or 'MI5'), UK's security intelligence agency, is looking to hire a Chief Scientific Adviser. The responsibilities of the newly established role, as stated in the official job application, include "developing and owning a ...

A significant question is currently weighing on the minds of many in the federal government: Are we ready for a cyber-emergency? Paul Kurtz, a security official under Presidents Clinton and Bush, and a member of the Obama transition team, posed that question to a crowd during the Black Hat DC computer security conference Wednesday. "Is there a FEMA for the Internet?" he asked. While the U.S. ...

A new report by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion identifies several technological tools that terrorists and extremist organizations could use to help organize, communicate, and target. The 11-page presentation (Warning: PDF) names GPS-enabled cell phones, video and camera phones, voice changing software and Twitter. ...Wait... Twitter? Apparently the U.S. Army thinks that Twitter is a ...

We'd swear this had to be some sort of spoof on the impeccable James Bond, but sadly enough, the whole thing is true. A secondhand Nikon Coolpix camera which sold on eBay for a mere £17 ($30) turned out to be a real bargain once its new 28-year old owner completed his first image dump. Along with decidedly decent snaps from his US vacation, he also found a number of "top secret" images, ...

You know how we told you last week that most people don't know what social-networking is? Well, apparently the CIA and FBI are using this news to their advantage, and are looking to get all of their secret agents friending and messaging online like chatty tweens, creating a MySpace knockoff site especially for spies and other officials to connect and chat. The idea behind the site, called A-Space, ...

You can learn just about anything from video games at this point. Non-profits use them to teach immigration law, budding rock musicians can use them learn to play guitar, and the Army even uses games to recruit and train people. Now the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is getting in on the action with three games of its own in which trainees play a rookie intelligence analyst who has to ...

Taliban militants are threatening to blow up the radio towers of cell phone companies in Afghanistan if they don't shut down their networks for ten hours, starting at 5 P.M, according to the Associated Press. Zabiullah Mujaheed, a Taliban spokesman, has said the networks have three days to comply with the demands. The Taliban believes that the U.S. military is using the cell phone signals to ...