Tecnologías militares - tecnologías de uso dual

Fuelling the flames in Gaza. Exploring the legal consequences for states and corporations involved in supplying jet fuel to the Israeli military

A trillion-dollar AI arms race. Big tech's capex splurge may be irrationally exuberant

New Research Exposes Countries and Companies Supplying the Oil Fueling Palestinian Genocide

Israeli crude and fuel supply chains

Revealed: How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza

In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent

Nuclear weapons. America and its allies are entering a period of nuclear uncertainty

Clicks and control. America is concerned about social media. China is, too

Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant's Ties to China

Combat in orbit. War in space is no longer science fiction

Machine of the state. Welcome to the era of AI nationalism

Paths to prosperity. How to get rich in the 21st century

Young guns. Meet the world's new arms dealers

Weapons of woe. From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps

Unwarranted Influence, Twenty-First-Century-Style: Not Your Grandfather’s Military-Industrial Complex

The world that Bert built. Huge ‘foundation models’ are turbo-charging AI progress

Meta Unveils a More Powerful A.I. and Isn’t Fretting Over Who Uses It

Oppenheimer's nightmares. A new nuclear arms race looms

Antropobsceno y otros ensayos: medios, materialidad y ecología

The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Total war. Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war

El Reino Unido utiliza tecnología de reconocimiento facial para prevenir hurtos

Electronic warfare. The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams

Lessons from Ukraine. The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield

With Ban on Micron, China Escalates Microchip Clash With U.S.

La economía en su laberinto: colapso climático y capitaloceno

El nuevo temor relacionado con la IA: robots asesinos de Hollywood se convierten en herramientas del ejército

China and the world. Is Chinese power about to peak?

Mountain range. How soon and at what height will China's economy peak?

Superpower showdown. China v America: how Xi Jinping plans to narrow the military gap

The Sino-American tech race. Just how good can China get at generative AI?

A stochastic parrot in every pot. What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of AI

Generative AI. How generative models could go wrong

Sun Tzu's slide-rule. How China measures national power

Generative AI. Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets

Browsers, the printing press, Freud and AI. How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history

Welcome to ChatCCP. Can Xi Jinping control AI without crushing it?

Digital capitalism is a mine not a cloud. Exploring the extractivism at the root of the data economy

Technology and society. How to worry wisely about artificial intelligence

Experts warn of new spyware threat targeting journalists and political figures

Cómo México se convirtió en el mayor usuario de Pegasus

Tying up Goliath. Activist strategies for confronting and harnessing digital power

Militarising Big Tech. The Rise of Silicon Valley's Digital Defence Industry

The Daring Ruse That Exposed China's Campaign to Steal American Secrets

Mothering invention. China and the West are in a race to foster innovation

They Are Watching': Inside Russia's Vast Surveillance State

Rogue geoengineering. America's defence department is looking for rogue geoengineers

Crítica al tecnofeudalismo

From ayatollahs to Albania. Iran's cyberwar goes global

U.S. Restricts Sales of Sophisticated Chips to China and Russia

China representa un desafío para nuestros servicios de inteligencia

Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Now in Public Defenders' Hands

Defence is the best offence. Can tech reshape the Pentagon?

China's Surveillance State Hits Rare Resistance From Its Own Subjects

'Una jaula invisible': así es como China vigila el futuro

Defense Firm Said U.S. Spies Backed Its Bid for Pegasus Spyware Maker

Conclusion: Find the Others. Space Forces: A critical History of Life in Outer Space

Of Spaces Old and New. Space Forces: A critical History of Life in Outer Space

Capabilities: An Introduction. Space Forces: A critical History of Life in Outer Space

Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China's Expanding Surveillance State

An Invisible Cage: How China Is Policing the Future

Aerial surveillance. The spy in the sky that sees backwards in time

Robotics. Covid has reset relations between people and robots

The techno-independence movement. China wants to insulate itself against Western sanctions

To Take Climate Change Seriously, the U.S. Military Needs to Shrink

Private Astronauts Launching to Space Station Don’t Want to Be 'Tourists

You’re Still Being Tracked on the Internet, Just in a Different Way

Facial Recognition Goes to War

Itami, la ciudad donde mil ojos digitales vigilan a los ancianos

Russia Is Censoring the Internet, With Coercion and Black Boxes

U.S. Warns of Efforts by China to Collect Genetic Data

Microsoft Seizes 42 Websites From a Chinese Hacking Group

Vayas donde vayas, nunca te perderán

Pegasus: esto aprendimos tras un año de investigar al programa espía más potente del mundo

Ignoring Sanctions, Russia Renews Broad Cybersurveillance Operation

Virtual state of control. Building a metaverse with Chinese characteristics

Digital geopolitics. Russia is trying to build its own great firewall

The surveillance state. Did the police in Israel use Pegasus spyware on citizens?

Fierce contests. Deception and destruction can still blind the enemy

Like smartphones, but lethal. The technology of seeing and shooting your enemies

The Battle for the World's Most Powerful Cyberweapon

'Vayas donde vayas, nunca te perderán': los controles de salud del gobierno en China despiertan inquietud sobre la vigilancia

Money for something. What congressional funding reveals about America's military priorities

You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation

Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight

Reconocimiento facial en América Latina: tendencias en la implementación de una tecnología perversa

Unpacific. China seeks to join the nuclear big league"

México, el mayor cliente del sistema de espionaje Pegasus, revela investigación

Pegasus: el Watergate a la mexicana

Trainspotting, but with nukes. Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information

Smart Borders or a Humane World?

The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine

The Third Revolution in Warfare

The Artificial Intelligence Arms Race: Trends and World Leaders in Autonomous Weapons Development

Spies for Hire: China's New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship

Big Tech made huge profits from war on terror, US activists say

Los recientes ciberataques muestran el futuro de los conflictos informáticos entre países

How China Transformed Into a Prime Cyber Threat to the U.S.

From Xinjiang to Mississippi: Terror Capitalism, Labour and Surveillance

Bitcoin and Encryption: A Race Between Criminals and the F.B.I.

Los nuevos retos de las superpotencias: los ataques cibernéticos

Blurring the monopoly on violence: Private Military and Security Companies and coercive state power

Autonomous weapons. The fog of war may confound weapons that think for themselves

Secret Chats Show How Cybergang Became a Ransomware Powerhouse

Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency

Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5 Million in Ransom to Hackers

F.B.I. Identifies Group Behind Pipeline Hack

Biden plans an order to strengthen U.S. cyberdefense. Will it be enough?

What We Know About the Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack

Biden plans an order to strengthen U.S. cyberdefense. Will it be enough?

Hacking China. China's domestic surveillance programmes benefit foreign spies. An aversion to encryption makes the country’s networks vulnerable

A.I. Here, There, Everywhere

The coup we are not talking about

Humanitarian Emergencies. Climate Disasters, Civil Disorder, and U.S. Military Relief Operations

Plane expensive. Why taking pilots out of planes has been more expensive than anticipated

La energía nuclear: ¿desaparición o renacimiento?

Great-Power Clashes. The Melting Arctic and Other Conflict Zones

Preparing for Retaliation Against Russia, U.S. Confronts Hacking by China

Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer

Responsible Minerals Sourcing for Renewable Energy

The Innovation Wars. America's Eroding Technological Advantage

La bataille des terres rares passe par la relance de la production hors de Chine

China targets rare earth export curbs to hobble US defence industry

All Hell Breaking Loose. The Pentagon Perspective on Climate Change

Feminist solidarity networks have multiplied since the COVID-19 outbreak in Mexico

Killer Robot? Assassination of Iranian Scientist Feeds Conflicting Accounts

Capitalism’s new clothes

Here's a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos

The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence

Five Takeaways From the Developing Space War Between China and the U.S.

How Space Became the Next 'Great Power' Contest Between the U.S. and China

Shadow Government. Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

Technology and geopolitics. The struggle over chips enters a new phase

A new architecture. Chipmaking is being redesigned. Effects will be far-reaching

Hypersonic Superweapons Are a Mirage, New Analysis Says

The future of armed conflict. America's approach to command and control goes peer to peer

Las agencias rusas de inteligencia o ¿quién mantiene a Vladimir Putin en el poder?

Warfighter: USAF unleashes its 'robotic' dogs of war

Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves

U.S. Cyberforce Was Deployed to Estonia to Hunt for Russian Hackers

AI: Facebook y Google ayudan a censurar a la oposición en Vietnam

Gene editing: Unexpected outcomes and risks

One Empire Over Seed: Control Over The World’s Seed Banks

Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue)

China's Surveillance State Sucks Up Data. U.S. Tech Is Key to Sorting It

Need a Hypothesis? This A.I. Has One

Dirigente del sector de seguridad privada señala desorden legal en agrupaciones

De profundis ad astra. The significance of an interceptor missile launched from an American warship

Don't Fear the Robots, and Other Lessons From a Study of the Digital Economy

Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?

Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?

La gran novedad tecnológica sobre el coronavirus se puede usar y te monitorea sin parar

Coming Storms. The Return of Great-Power War

Legitimacy Beyond the State? Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational Actors

Armas de fuego en la sociedad mexicana. Riesgos para la paz y seguridad pública

Putin's new model army. Russian military forces dazzle after a decade of reform

COVID 19: la permanencia de la disputa por el liderazgo tecnológico global

Intelligence Isn’t Just for Government Anymore: Spy Agencies Need to Reach Voters and Tech Leaders Now, Too

Establishing a global empire over life, through monocultares, patents and monopolies, by rupturing a world of diversity, self organization and freedom

A civil-military response to hybrid threats

From AI to facial recognition: how China is setting the rules in new tech

More Than a A Wall - Introduction

AI, captain. China now has the world's largest fleet, alarming its Pacific rival

The economics of the global defense industry

Cloud computing. Davy Jones's data-centre

Steam engine in the cloud. How Snowflake raised $3bn in a record software IPO

U.S. Commandos Use Secretive Missiles to Kill Qaeda Leaders in Syria

Digital dominance. A new global ranking of cyber-power throws up some surprises

Quantum computing. What quantum computers reveal about innovation

Brain-computer interfaces. Elon Musk's vision of the future takes another step forward?

The complete mercenary. How Erik Prince used Trump's rise to make an unlikely comeback

Russian Intelligence Hackers Are Back, Microsoft Warns, Aiming at Officials of Both Parties

Espías, hackeos y agencias de seguridad: la otra cara de las vacunas contra el coronavirus

Armoured warfare. Tanks have rarely been more vulnerable

Predicting pugnacity - How to forecast armies' will to fight

Robot Generals. Will They Make Better Decisions Than Humans -- Or Worse?

EU da a Fisher Industries tercer contrato para muro con México

Satellite warfare. An arms race is brewing in orbit

U.S. Companies Vie for Funds in Race to Build Rare Earths Industry

The hacker and the state

Mars Mission From United Arab Emirates Embarks on 7-Month Journey

Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped

Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm

The Doctor From Nazi Germany and the Search for Life on Mars

Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside

A New Superpower Competition Between Beijing and Washington: China’s Nuclear Buildup

The Growth of the “Camo Economy” and the Commercialization of the Post-9/11 Wars

China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Equipment

The State Behind the iPhone

The limits of Chinese military power

Pentagon War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Gen Z Rebellion

For AI, data are harder to come by than you think

Computing hardware. The cost of training machines is becoming a problem

The future. Humans will add to AI's limitations. It will slow progress even more, but another AI winter is unlikely

Businesses are finding AI hard to adopt

A U.S. Secret Weapon in A.I.: Chinese Talent

Artificial intelligence and its limits. An understanding of AI's limitations is starting to sink in

Environmentalists Targeted Exxon Mobil. Then Hackers Targeted Them

When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction

Pentagon intelligence employees raise concerns about supporting domestic surveillance amid protests

Cyber-defence. America rethinks its strategy in the Wild West of cyberspace

To your good stealth. A beery European spy club is revealed. How the Danes, Swedes, Germans and Dutch shared secrets

A YouTube mystery. Google's removal of anti-Beijing comments raises political eyebrows

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Too Big to Prevail. The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen

Crewed space flight. Another step towards returning people to Earth's satellite

Did this virus come from a lab? Maybe not — but it exposes the threat of a biowarfare arms race

Spore wars The havoc wrought by covid-19 will spark new concern over bio-weapons

I Could Solve Most of Your Problems': Eric Schmidt's Pentagon Offensive

The US military's plans to cement its network of African bases

China recurre a un control social al estilo de Mao para frenar el coronavirus

5Geopolitics. Open standards, not sanctions, are America's best weapon against Huawei

Chinese Agents Helped Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say

5Geopolitics. America does not want China to dominate 5G mobile networks

The Digital Dictators. How Technology Strengthens Autocracy

Thanking big brother. China’s post-covid propaganda push

Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation

Israel's Not-So-Secret Weapon in Coronavirus Fight: The Spies of Mossad

Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build ‘the Architecture of Oppression’

BBVA, el banco explosivo y nuclear

Will Germans trade privacy for coronavirus protection

Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups

Military technology. Laser weapons are almost ready for the battlefield. Ray guns, in other words, are now real

To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data

In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags

Estimating the arms sales of Chinese companies

Crises are fueling the global arms trade: SIPRI report

The CEO who loved me. Spies often use businesses as cover. It can end in tears

An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away

American state capitalism will not beat China at 5G

Judge Halts Work on Microsoft's JEDI Contract, a Victory for Amazon

For American Military, Coronavirus Is an Enemy to Be Fought

Chinese technology. With the state's help, Chinese technology is booming

Computing records. The first computer chip with a trillion transistors

Facial Recognition Moves Into a New Front: Schools

You Are Now Remotely Controlled

From muskets to missiles. The battle for the Middle Eastern arms market is heating up

London Police Are Taking Surveillance to a Whole New Level

Cómo miles de millones de fotos amenazan la libertad y la privacidad (también la suya)

Solicitan a la SCJN atraer el juicio contra las cámaras de reconocimiento facial

In strategic Djibouti, a microcosm of China's growing foothold in Africa

Smartphones Are Spies. Here's Whom They Report To

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

Ciberarmas iraníes, una amenaza para EE.UU.

Irán ha desarrollado armas más potentes que sus misiles

The digital divide. Different views of AI fuel distrust between China and America

The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials

Data. China's success at AI has relied on good data. But cheap labour has also played an important part

La compañía misteriosa que podría acabar con la privacidad que conocemos

The future. Technological progress in China could still lead to fireworks. Is a showdown likely with America?

Cyber-security. Huawei is a cyber-security risk. But risks can be managed

Microprocessors. China is slowly moving up the microprocessing value chain

Una red de espionaje empodera a la policía en China

What happened after an explosion at a Russian disease research lab called VECTOR

Missile technology. Bullseye!

Hypersonic Missiles Are a Game Changer

Friendly fire. A shooting puts the spotlight on military training for allies. What does America get out of training troops for repressive allies?

The spying business. Western firms should not sell spyware to tyrants

Las exportaciones de armas alemanas alcanzan cifra récord

What Is End-to-End Encryption? Another Bull's-Eye on Big Tech

We Teach A.I. Systems Everything, Including Our Biases

A.I. Is Making It Easier to Kill (You). Here's How

Warfare in space. America seeks faster ways to launch military satellites

Marx in the Cloud

Finding Truth Online Is Hard Enough

Así ayudó McKinsey al gobierno de Trump a ejecutar sus políticas migratorias

La OTAN ve ahora a China como un posible oponente

El gran negocio de los nuevos muros que proliferan en Europa

Internet Companies Prepare to Fight the 'Deepfake' Future

Turkey's Syria move highlights America's tactical nukes in Europe. There are still 150 or so of the things

Artificial Intelligence Is Too Important to Leave to Google and Facebook Alone

Warheads up. China's nuclear arsenal was strikingly modest, but that is changing

The next AI explosion will be defined by the chips we build for it. Specialized AI chips are the future, and chipmakers are scrambling to figure out which designs will prevail

The Iran Cables: Secret Documents Show How Tehran Wields Power in Iraq

China's Internet Is Flowering

We're Stuck With the Tech Giants

'Absolutely No Mercy': Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims.

Inside America's Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar Fighter-Jet Program

La videovigilancia sigue siendo controvertida en Alemania

El negocio de construir muros

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to Partner With 3 Companies on NASA Moon Lander

Broad-banned internet. Countries are increasingly willing to censor speech online. That will make life hard for the tech giants

Computación cuántica explicada en unos minutos

Russia Dominated Syria's War. Now It's Sending Mercenaries to Libya

One in the AI. America blacklists China's best artificial-intelligence firms. The move, linked to repression in Xinjiang, strikes at the heart of China's technological ambitions

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

Firepower: Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene

Pentagon, With an Eye on China, Pushes for Help From American Tech

Microsoft Wins Pentagon's $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Thwarting Amazon

¿Para qué sirve en realidad una computadora cuántica?

Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing

Space travel. SpaceX's Starship is a new kind of rocket, in every sense. And it may beat its government rival into space

Quantum Computing Is Coming, Bit by Qubit.

Human-machine interface. Data-labelling startups want to help improve corporate AI. A clutch of firms is generating the feedstock for machine-learning algorithms: tagged data

Mixing up Humans and Military Technology

La transformación del Complejo Militar-Industrial

Robotics. Robots' abilities to recognise and manipulate things are improving

Acquired taste. Western firms increasingly admire—and want—Chinese technology. The trade war and animosity

The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy

Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks

Xi's embrace of false history and fearsome weapons is worrying China's leader is stoking hair-trigger nationalism with his idea that the Communist Party never makes mistakes

Xi's big parade. To mark 70 years of Communist rule, China shows off new weapons. Some of them are designed to make Americans tremble

Der Techlash. Europe has so many issues with Big Tech it hardly knows where to begin. Its efforts to regulate it are as inchoate as America's

China's Private Army: Protecting the New Silk Road

The tech offensive. Silicon Valley and the state gird for war. The battle lines of an American regulatory assault on technology companies are being drawn

Is China a global leader in research and development?

United States of Fear

At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds

The global disinformation order

Schrödinger's cheetah. Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one.

Quantum computing. Google claims to have demonstrated 'quantum supremacy'. It could be the field's Sputnik moment.

Así usan el camuflaje digital los manifestantes de Hong Kong

A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test

En China, el reconocimiento facial triunfa, incluso en el supermercado

Battle algorithm. Artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of war. A new type of arms race could be on the cards

Circuit breaker. Big tech and the trade war. As the fight spreads, it is becoming a danger to investors, consumers and American interests

Donald Trump unveils Space Command. The Space Force, which it will one day instruct, may be some time.

Mind control. Artificial intelligence and war. As computers play a bigger role in warfare, the dangers to humans rise

China And the Zombies Of The Past

China usa LinkedIn para reclutar espías extranjeros

Los robots asesinos podrían decidir las guerras del futuro

Estados Unidos apunta a la red eléctrica de Rusia en una guerra fría digital

You first. Should America rule out first use of nuclear weapons? Elizabeth Warren thinks so. America's allies do not

YouTube ayudó al surgimiento de la derecha y la radicalización en Brasil

Coming, ready or not. It will soon be possible to send a satellite to repair another. Or to destroy it

Un experto en inteligencia artificial quiere detener a los robots asesinos

Este buscador ofrece privacidad, ¿será suficiente para dejar Google?

Ioning out flight. The first journey of an aircraft with an ion drive. How to fly silently, and without any moving parts

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Wants ‘Sewing Machine-Like’ Robots to Wire Brains to the Internet

The Pentagon Labyrinth. 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It

Debemos detener las nuevas armas robóticas

Magnetic attraction. Rare earths give China leverage in the trade war, at a cost. If China cuts off exports, it would hurt America but also undermine its own long-term economic goals

A crisis of confidence. Two tragic air disasters may not down Boeing. Reputational damage, together with protectionism and rising debt, herald troubled times for America's aerospace giant

Wheat is a weapon': US gov-funded, Democrat-linked think tank proposes starving Syrian civilians to weaken Assad

Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable. And They’re Starting a New Global Arms Race.

Dangerous work. Cleaning up nuclear waste is an obvious task for robots. But designing 'bots that can do it is hard

Robots and the real world

Dangerous work. Cleaning up nuclear waste is an obvious task for robots. But designing 'bots that can do it is hard

Tu rostro está entrenando a las herramientas de reconocimiento facial

JEDI orders. Amazon is eyeing billions in federal contracts. The American bureaucracy may prove a lucrative customer

The UTC-Raytheon deal highlights the changing nature of war. Better to fight the next one than the last

Pinch points. The technology industry is rife with bottlenecks. The US-China tech cold war is making companies more aware of them than ever

Clandestine warfare. Submarine-launched drone platoons will soon be emerging from the sea. Commando operations are about to be robotised

Surveillance technology. America mulls regulating facial recognition. The rare issue that unites left and right

In high detail. Using AI to speed up the processing of space images. Where no neural network has gone before

'Surveillance capitalism': critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project

The silicon tightrope. Taiwan's computing titans are caught up in the US-China tech war. They would rather remain in the shadows

Policing and technology. America is turning against facial-recognition software. But that isn't the most promising use of technology

Cuando las tierras raras se convierten en un arma

The Key Definitions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) That Explain Its Importance

The balance of processing power. An American ban hits China's supercomputer industry. It may not knock it out

Army dreamers. Xi Jinping wants China's armed forces to be 'world-class' by 2050. He has done more to achieve this than any of his predecessors

A global timepass economy. How to pursuit of leisure drives internet use

El bloqueo a Huawei levanta un muro digital

Swarms of drones, piloted by artificial intelligence, may soon patrol Europe's borders

There is a blind spot in AI research. Fears about the future impacts of artificial intelligence are distracting researchers from the real risks of deployed systems

Can This Startup Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I.?

La verdadera amenaza de la inteligencia artificial

Heating up. How climate change can fuel wars. Droughts are already making conflict more likely. As the world gets hotter, mayhem could spread

Technology and politics. Huawei has been cut off from American technology. The ban will be excruciating at best, and fatal at worst

Climate of fear. How to think about global warming and war. They are linked—and that is worrying

In Baltimore and beyond, a stolen N.S.A. tool wreaks Havoc

Missile contracts surge as US exits arms treaty: study

Berlín: activistas exigen prohibir armas autónomas

Ending war with another war? Erik Prince wants to send 1,000s of mercenaries to fix Afghan quagmire

Google, el nuevo aliado de la policía

Hecho en China y exportado a Ecuador: el aparato de vigilancia estatal

China throws a revealing party for the anniversary of its navy. Its maritime ambitions are becoming more evident

The invisible border. Technology could make a hard border disappear, but at a cost. Background surveillance would need to be high

Restraining the robots. Autonomous weapons and the new laws of war. A technology that may prove hard to restrain

Taming terminators. How to tame autonomous weapons. As military systems get cleverer, humans must keep up

Can we stop AI outsmarting humanity?

Chinese technology. How to handle Huawei. Banning one of China's leading firms from operating in the West should be a last resort

UK, US and Russia among those opposing killer robot ban. UN delegates discuss restrictions to lethal autonomous weapons systems that use AI.

The Truth About Killer Robots: the year's most terrifying documentary

He Helped Create A.I. Now, He Worries About “Killer Robots"

Ioning out flight. The first journey of an aircraft with an ion drive. How to fly silently, and without any moving parts

Oil rush. Tech firms ramp up efforts to woo the energy industry. Amazon, Google and Microsoft see old industrial giants as a new source of income

Google hired gig economy workers to improve artificial intelligence in controversial drone-targeting project

Defence policy. Bringing out the big guns. After 18 years of IEDs in the Middle East, America's armed forces are planning for high-tech warfare

Under the umbrella. China is waging a nationwide campaign against gang crime. It is often an excuse to crush political threats to the Communist Party

Predator pricing. The growing appetite for armed drones in the Middle East. As America holds back, China is cornering the market

Putin's pipeline. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a Russian trap. And Germany has fallen into it

Protection rocket. Saudi Arabia’s missile race. A new rocket factory is stoking fears of nuclear proliferation

Laser tag. The Pentagon wants satellites with laser beams attached to their heads. Missile-interceptors in space could protect America, but at a galactic cost

Swanning in. Intel's new boss leads a firm that is both thriving and troubled. It dominates PC and server chips. But its core business has misfired of late

Missiles and mistrust. Russia, America and the INF. Russia's suspicion of America is a self-fulfilling prophecy

Nuclear discord. Blame Russian cheating, not America, for killing the INF treaty. In responding, America should be careful not to fuel a ruinous arms race

The great experiment. Can China become a scientific superpower? The hypothesis that scientific greatness requires freedom of thought is about to be tested.

Drone defenders. Thankfully, the technology to combat rogue drones is getting better. Clever jamming techniques and improved radar are coming

Rules for flying robots. Drones need to be encouraged, and people protected. Tighter regulations will not hamper troublemakers

Armed with a crystal ball. Masayoshi Son wants Arm's blueprints to power all tech. The British company's pre-eminent position in chip design helps him predict tech's future.

Red moon rising. How China could dominate science. Should the world worry?

Microdrones. The world's lightest wireless flying machine lifts off. RoboFly unleashed

The chips are down. The semiconductor industry and the power of globalization. Superpower politics may start to unravel it

On the extinction of the species. Gene drives promise great gains and great dangers. Don't ban, don't rush

Capitalismo big tech. ¿Welfare o neofeudalismo digital?

A worldwide web in space. Satellites may connect the entire world to the internet. But business challenges and technical problems remain

The 9 companies behind de A.I. acquisition boom

Superpowers and technology. Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy. America cannot afford to ignore China's semiconductor ambitions. It cannot simply tame them, either

Unmasking A.I.'s Bias Problem. Artificial intelligence can imitate and enhance human decision-making - and amplify human prejudices. Can Big Tech tackle A.I.'s discrimination problem?

Nuclear weapons. America tears up an arms treaty, and harms itself. A farewell to arms control

¿Por qué los científicos están tan molestos con los primeros bebés Crispr?

The baby crisperer. The era of human gene-editing may have begun. Why that is worrying. A Chinese scientist claims to have edited the genomes of twin baby girls.

Genetically modified human beings. A maverick researcher claims to have created GM children. His stated aim is to protect them from AIDS

The great chain of China. China's grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to break. Will the supply chain bifurcate, between East and West?

Pulling Putin's pants down. Britain wages information war against Russia. A rare spies' press conference marks the start of a counter-offensive

Suing spies. America's government is putting foreign cyber-spies in the dock. Some of its own hackers are not pleased

The New American Way of War. Military culture and the political utility of force

Machine learning. A sense of curiosity is helpful for artificial intelligence. Another approach to training machines

Quantum spring. The race is on to dominate quantum computing. But the technology may face a winter before it enters its summer

Whirlybirds are go. Future helicopters will fly in new ways. Pilots will be optional

The new geography of innovation. Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley. Its primacy as a technology hub is on the wane. That is cause for concern

“Full spectrum dominance”: US national security doctrine in the new global security environment

Planetary science. Astronomers have found a lake on Mars. It's 20km across and 1.5km beneath the southern polar ice cap

Security screening. America and the EU are both toughening up on foreign capital. Donald Trump and Jean-Claude Juncker share suspicions of Chinese investment

Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Future of the U.S. Military in Space

Into the breach. Defence companies target the cyber-security market. Demand for cyber-products is growing at twice the rate of that for military hardware

Military aviation. Tomorrow's squadron leaders will be accompanied by drones. Welcome to the wingbot

Shooting ahead. With the Tempest, Britain bids to lead the world in fighter jets

Military communications. A new type of battlefield network is in development. It is harder to knock out than existing systems

Thought experiments. How brains and machines can be made to work together. Brain-computer interfaces sound like the stuff of science fiction. Andrew Palmer sorts the reality from the hype

No longer just catch-up. China will soon have air power rivalling the West's. In some technologies, it has surpassed it

How does Chinese tech stack up against American tech? Silicon Valley may not hold onto its global superiority for much longer

In heaven as it is on Earth. The new space race. Events in space reflect those back home

The other kind of leaking. There is no guaranteed defence against ballistic missiles –yet. Someone ought to explain this to the commander-in-chief

Playing with fire. Google runs into more flak on artificial intelligence. Its employees have won concessions on AI work for America's military

Innocence lost. Germany becomes the last big Western power to buy killer robots. For now, the drones will not be armed

Fire arrows. A Chinese company plans to launch a rocket into orbit this year. It will use solid fuel—a first for commercial space flight

High-tech weaponry. Russia’s new nuclear weapons are technically plausible… but practically dubious

Baltics beware. Russia's conventional forces outgun NATO near its borders. The Atlantic alliance is ill-prepared to deter Russian aggression

Apartheid with Chinese characteristics. China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other. Totalitarian determination and modern technology have produced a massive abuse of human rights

Technology and surveillance. Does China's digital police state have echoes in the West? The state can gather more information, more easily, than ever before. Do not underestimate the risks

A farewell to arms control. Old deals to limit nuclear weapons are fraying. They may not be repaired. Politics and technology make arms control harder than ever

Anglichanka strikes again. Kremlin-backed fake news targets Britain. 'Mischievous Englishwomen' are blamed for everything from the Skripal poisoning to 17th-century famines

MI5 chief: Kremlin is 'chief protagonist' in campaign to undermine west

Disarmageddon. Despite North Korea, arms control is unravelling. Complacent, reckless leaders have forgotten how valuable it is to restrain nuclear weapons

Situation vacant. Gina Haspel must give answers before becoming the CIA boss. Would she torture again?

Drones and guerrilla warfare. Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces. Their small size and large numbers can overwhelm defences

The duty to deter. If Syria's despot is not punished, others will use chemical weapons. Strikes on Bashar al-Assad's air bases are justified

Paper elephant. India spends a fortune on defence and gets poor value for money. The country’s millions of men and women in uniform wield mainly Soviet weapons

Digital privacy. The Facebook scandal could change politics as well as the internet. Even used legitimately, it is a powerful, intrusive political tool

Google is quietly providing AI technology for drone strike targeting project

Arms Industry

Turning politics up to 11. Russian disinformation distorts American and European democracy. The Mueller indictment reveals some of the Kremlin's tactics

Surveillance Capitalism. Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age

Xi v Marshall. Will China's Belt and Road Initiative outdo the Marshall Plan? How China's infrastructure projects around the world stack up against America's plan to rebuild post-war Europe

Military applications. Mutually assured detection. Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide

How to be a Dadaist troll. Inside the Internet Research Agency’s lie machine. Serving up fake news for Mr Putin’s chef

Jets, but no pilots. For the Gulf states, diplomacy involves buying weapons they don't need. They have agreed to arms deals worth billions of dollars in the past year

El desarrollo conceptual de la Revolución en los Asuntos Militares

Changing the pilots. Airbus executives get swept away by a corruption investigation. A management shake-out may reawaken national rivalries at the European aerospace giant

Administrative bipolar disorder. One arm of the Trump administration thinks climate change is a security threat. Another thinks it is a hoax

Russia's dirty tricks. How Putin meddles in Western democracies. And why the West's response is inadequate

Man and machine. Autonomous weapons are a game-changer. AI-empowered robots pose entirely new dangers, possibly of an existential kind

War at hyperspeed. Getting to grips with military robotics. Autonomous robots and swarms will change the nature of warfare

Not so MAD. Why nuclear stability is under threat. Mutually assured destruction has served as the ultimate deterrent, but for how much longer?

Stay well back. Using clever technology to keep enemies at bay. To counter regional challengers, America needs to regain its technological edge

Military drones. The latest unmanned drone is a version of an existing manned one. Back to the unicopter

The ride of the mercenaries. How "Wagner" came to Syria. Captured soldiers cast light on the work of a shadowy group

Miniature robotics. Military robots are getting smaller and more capable. Soon, they will travel in swarms

Give and take. Drone technology has made huge strides. Originally a military technology, drones are now benefiting from rapid advances in consumer electronics

Know your enemy. How to make soldiers' brains better at noticing threats. Target recognition in warfare

Technology. Tinker, tailor, hacker, spy. Who is benefiting more from the cyberisation of intelligence, the spooks or their foes?

Espionage. Shaken and stirred. Intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic have struggled to come to terms with new technology and a new mission. They are not done yet, writes Edward Carr