When the Pentagon announced this week that the U.S. military will allow women to fight on the front lines within a few years, …
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This Amazing Coffee-Filled Robot Can Beat You at Darts
They’ve beaten us at Jeopardy, taken our manufacturing jobs and now robots are coming for the one thing many of us hold dear — the ability to win at pointless bar games. Okay, so that’s not what the universal jamming gripper is …
The ‘Flying Humvee’ Exists! Who Wants One?
In a 1968 musical starring Dick Van Dyke, a vintage racing motorcar takes to the skies with helicopter blades perched on the ends of red and yellow batwings. The musical’s name: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. For some reason, those four words popped into by brainpan when I spotted MSNBC’s story about a “flying Humvee.”
Just look at that …
WATCH: Flying Robotic Camera System Given to Libyan Rebels
Aeryon Labs of Waterloo, Canada has revealed that it’s given one of its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Libyan rebels to help them collect intelligence from afar.
The “Aeryon Scout Micro UAV” weighs just three pounds and can be packed into a suitcase or backpack. The system is controlled via a simple touchscreen map interface, …
Defense Department Initiative Seeks to Analyze Social Media Patterns
It’s no stretch to imagine that cyberspace will likely serve as another front in the wars of the future. But now, the Pentagon is reportedly kicking things into high gear with a new initiative which sets to track intel across social media. The program could cost up to $42 million and is currently soliciting research proposals.
The new …
‘Anonymous’ Hacks U.S. Military Contractors Booz Allen Hamilton
The masked crusaders at Anonymous have struck again—this time against the American military.
They didn’t manage to break into the Pentagon itself, but instead took aim at an easier target: private company Booz Allen Hamilton, which does a lot of contract work for the armed forces and other government departments.
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Two Minute Video: Stress Testing a Military-Grade Tablet
The iX104C5 tablet from Xplore Technologies is built for extreme conditions, but how does it fare against life in suburbia?
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Video Game Backed by Chinese Army Features U.S. Soldiers as Enemies
Here in the United States, we have America’s Army, a free first-person shooter-style video game produced by the U.S. Army that, aside from being a popular and polished game, doubles as a recruitment tool.
Wired is reporting that the People’s Liberation Army in China now has its own game called Glorious Mission that runs along the same …
How SEAL Team Six Fed Live Video of the Raid to Obama
One of the most iconic photographs to come out of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout has turned out to be the one portraying President Obama and his national security team as they “receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House,” according to the photo’s caption on Flickr.
It …
Bin Laden’s Seized Computers Reveal ‘Mother Lode’ of Intel
Politico is reporting that the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound over the weekend has resulted in the seizure of several computer hard drives and other data storage devices.
An official referred to the find as “the mother lode of intelligence,” adding, “It’s going to be great even if only 10 percent of it is actionable.”
The …
Now the Army Wants an App Store
No doubt Steve Jobs expected a lot of things when he launched the first iPod back in 2001, but the Army setting up its own App Store was probably not one of them.
Yes, the Army. An App Store. Because soldiers need apps too.
It’s called Army Marketplace, and the idea is that it serves two purposes: distributing software around a …
Watch the Navy Set a Boat on Fire with Their New Laser Gun
Remember the German guy who built his own working laser gun? That was nothing. The US Navy successfully tested their version of a weaponized laser, which they used to set fire to a boat off the coast of California.
Peter Morrison, program officer for the MLD warship raygun project says, “This is the first time a High Energy Laser, at …