Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie are both researchers at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology but are currently on leave to serve the United States government. Buchanan is acting as assistant director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Biden-Harris Administration, meanwhile, Imbrie is serving the State Department.
Below, Ben and Andrew share five key insights from their new book, The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the
For me, there’s a certain irony in creating content for a living, but absolutely dreading the look of a blank word processing document.
As a writer, the less time I spend inside a word processor, the better. So I’ll take any opportunity I can to minimize typing and formatting. These three Google Docs features speed up my process exponentially. Best of all, they’re really easy to use.
Voice typing
If you can talk, you can type—and much fa
The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of
After Palmer Luckey sold his Oculus virtual reality company to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, he could have easily used the proceeds to start a new AI company that sold chatbots or made movie recommendations. Instead he did something harder: He founded Anduril, which sells AI-powered drone defense systems to the U.S. and its allies.
He says part of his reason for starting Anduril is because the Pentagon
Nintendo’s history in the film world is a spotty one, but the company is gearing up for another run at broadening its franchises—and it’s staffing up as it prepares to do so.
The game giant has purchased Dynamo Pictures
I just reset my email. Took my unread count down to zero. Archived or deleted everything that was sitting in my inbox. And everything feels different now.
More than any other possible binary the world presents us, I believe there are precisely two types of people in this world: those whose unread email count sits at or well above 1,000, and those who have their life somewhat in order.
I remember when we all first started to get iPhones, and we all were kind of looking over each
Earlier this month, astronauts disposed of some 172 pounds of trash from the International Space Station (ISS) using a completely new method: sending it out of the commercial Bishop Airlock designed, owned, and operated by Houston-based Nanoracks. Once the specially designed trash bag was ejected from the airlock, voilà—the ISS crew had less waste to worry about.
Cooper Read, Bishop Airlock program manager at Nanoracks, noted, “The first full end-to-end cycle was a g
An organization called Arkive, which launched out of stealth mode on Wednesday, aims to use the power of the internet to build what it calls the first decentralized, physical museum.
Arkive admits people from around the world as members, with about 200 signed up so far and another 800 on a waiting list, and enables them to vote on what historical and artistic artifacts the museum will acquire. The museum intend
Digital pharmacies looking to set themselves apart in a crowded field are taking a page—and executives—from the biggest names in tech. Case in point: SoftBank-backed startup Alto Pharmacy, which just landed a top Amazon exec as its next CEO.
Alicia Boler Davis will take the reins of the company on September 1, a little more than two years after she joined Amazon as SVP of global fulfillment. At the time she was appointed, Boler Davis was
Three and a half decades of nearly insurmountable technical and funding hurdles bore fruit in full-color glory as NASA unveiled its first public images and spectroscopic data this week from the James Webb Space Telescope.
The White House set the astronomy world abuzz on Monday night when it