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Inside IARPA’s Push to Detect Neurological Disorders With Spy Technology

IARPA, the US spy tech agency, is working on how to diagnose various neurological conditions by analyzing video clips of how people move.

Last April, the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced the launch of its Movement Observation and Video-based Evaluation System (MOVES) program aimed at diagnosing neurological health conditions from open source video clips.

These neurological conditions include:

Parkinson’s Disease
Huntington’s Disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Cerebellar Ataxia
Essential Tremor
Dystonia

Shakes, tics, tremors, gaits, jerks, imbalances, and difficulties in walking, talking, swallowing, and breathing are all to be analyzed and diagnosed from video clips that may not have great angles or resolution.

And the people in the videos may be wearing all types of clothing like winter jackets, tunics, kurtas, headwear, and camo that could obfuscate their neurological conditions.

“MOVES seeks create algorithms that aid clinicians in making diagnoses of a small...

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Planning a Trip? Save Up to 20% on Away Luggage

Save up to 20%: Labor Day weekend may have wrapped up, but Away luggage is still up to 20% off at Amazon. If you have travel plans for the upcoming fall and holiday season, now is a great time to pick up a new suitcase and save some cash. But

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Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform

New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget Arm's latest smartphone platform is optimized for running AI agents on mobile devices and introduces neural graphics that it claims can deliver desktop-class gaming within a smartphone's power constraints.

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Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad

PUBLIC SECTOR Cross-government plan combines civil ambitions with an increasingly military view of orbit The UK government has corralled £7.8 billion of cross-departmental spending into a new space strategy intended to boost growth and national security through to 2030. The package covers orbital collision warnings, low Earth orbit communications,

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