Innovation & Technology

Areas of Artificial Intelligence with strategic applications

Areas of Artificial Intelligence with strategic applications

PEJOURNAL - First applications of Artificial Intelligence date back to the World War II, which was used for encrypting and decrypting based on machine learning. Artificial intelligence has a wide and various range of applications, covering from production of goods to help solving complicated issues and working with biometric data. Artificial Intelligence has different levels containing limited area of carrying out normal and routine duties of a human to public areas such as understanding the environment like a human and even a higher level of human understanding. Artificial Intelligence higher than human understanding has not been materialized yet but in…
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NATO Developed New Methods of Cognitive Warfare

NATO Developed New Methods of Cognitive Warfare

BY: Leonid Savin PEJOURNAL - A leading role in Cognitive Warfare direction is played by the Innovation for Defense Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Specialized Center, also known as the Innovation Hub, located in Canada. However, this center is not included in the list of NATO’s official accredited centers of excellence , such as the Center for Cooperative Cyber ​​Defense in Tallinn or the Center for Energy Security in Vilnius. Probably, NATO did not want to draw attention to its work, so it functions “autonomously”. It should be admitted that this concealment approach was successful, since, judging by the news feed, the Center began work…
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Hacker group leak secret information of Senior Israeli Intelligence

Hacker group leak secret information of Senior Israeli Intelligence

PEJOURNAL - A hacker group called 'Justice for Palestine' released confidential information of high-ranking Israeli intelligence and military officials in the cyberspace. The group, whose mission is said to be "revealing the identities of the Zionist regime's criminal elements who harm the innocent Palestinian people", has released first-hand information on the personal and private lives, addresses, telephone numbers and lifestyles of high-ranking Israeli military and security officials in the form of text, photos and videos in Persian on the Telegram channel @ justice_palestine. The channel, which describes itself as "an international popular network of freedom-seeking and noble supporters of justice,…
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Facebook ignores its users’ misuse of this social network

Facebook ignores its users’ misuse of this social network

PEJOURNAL - Internal documents leaked from Facebook show that the company's researchers were aware of the misuse of users of the social network and ignored this issue. The documents show that one in eight Facebook users uses Facebook inappropriately, harming their sleep, work, and family and social relationships. Facebook experts have used the term problematic to describe the condition, but experts generally use the term Internet addiction to describe the condition. By 2019, Facebook had hired a group on this social network that sought to assess the well-being and comfort of users when using it.The group came up with ways…
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China’s new hypersonic missile test

China’s new hypersonic missile test

PEJOURNAL - In August, a Chinese rocket carried a projectile into space. That projectile, reported by US intelligence agencies as a missile and by China as a reusable space vehicle, fell into an orbit, circled the globe, and then glided into a spot about 24 miles away from its original target. The launch represents a demonstration of a new capability for China, the revitalization of an old technology, and a complicated way to bypass existing missile defenses. While the speed and the gliding are notable parts of the system China launched, what most stands out is the specific trajectory it…
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China’s high-tech developments and US national security concerns

China’s high-tech developments and US national security concerns

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - When examining serious US national security concerns towards China, it is clear that US concerns about China are not unfounded, and that these concerns have multiple contexts, especially in the high-tech sector. China has developed quantum supercomputers that perform one-year calculations in an hour or less. The development of advanced quantum computers has raised serious concerns in the United States about cybersecurity and espionage. The Chinese are also seeking to innovate to global standards for emerging technologies such as the 5G Internet, the IoT, artificial intelligence and other related fields. These activities set global standards…
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Will digital Yuan become China’s global trade tool?

Will digital Yuan become China’s global trade tool?

PEJOURNAL - China's central bank said it is seeking cross-border payments with the digital yuan and plans to introduce global standards for digital currencies (digital Yuan) to create a common international monetary system.The Central Bank of China said it is strengthening information security and protecting personal data while developing the experimental use of the digital yuan at home. China is leading the global competition for the central bank's virtual currencies and has long tentatively used the digital yuan in the most major cities, including Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai, but has yet to announce any time for its official launch. Many…
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Nuclear Batteries, a new approach to Carbon-Free energy

Nuclear Batteries, a new approach to Carbon-Free energy

PEJOURNAL - Jacopo Buongiorno and others say factory-built microreactors or as have been called Nuclear Batteries trucked to usage sites could be a safe, efficient option for decarbonizing electricity systems. We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering. Much as large, expensive, and centralized computers gave way to the widely distributed PCs of today, a new generation of relatively tiny and inexpensive factory-built reactors (Nuclear Batteries), designed for autonomous plug-and-play operation similar to plugging in an oversized battery,…
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Chip shortages are creating a new crisis in the world

Chip shortages are creating a new crisis in the world

BY: Soheil Seyed Jamali PEJOURNAL - The world is currently in a COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The outbreak of this mysterious disease has affected most countries of the world for over a year and has caused many problems. The economic crisis can be considered the biggest and worst result of this virus. According to our current knowledge, the virus started in China and later spread to the rest of the world. Industrialized and rich countries have more production and industrial centers than Third World countries. Thus, the spread of the virus within those countries has complicated the crisis both for them…
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The Biden administration’s AI and cybersecurity plans

The Biden administration’s AI and cybersecurity plans

PEJOURNAL - Major issues on the Biden table include fighting the coronavirus epidemic, providing financial support to Americans, and reversing Trump's policies on climate change, international relations, and immigration, and as expected, cybersecurity still tops the Biden administration's list of priorities and the new US president has shown signs of his government's approach to the technology. First of all, Biden elevated the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to a cabinet-level position and appointed top geneticist Eric Lander, the founding director of the MIT-Harvard Broad Institute, to the role. The OSTP advises the president on science…
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