“A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West,” reads a recent recruitment ad for Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm that ...

Part of the experimental setup used to verify the sensor’s behaviour, showing the small multimode fibre encapsulated inside a white ferrule. Credit: Auxiliadora Padrón Brito.

A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West,” reads a recent recruitment ad for Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm that ...