#Sono could soundproof your home from city noise Sono Living in a city has plenty of perks.
NSA now plans to watch you with super tiny drones Black Hornet Flying insects have one huge advantage over humans:
so it makes sense to create a#similarly sized drone#for stealth military missions.####Clocking in at a tiny eight-inches long and 2. 1 ounces light,
It has already been put to work by British infantrymen in Afghanistan, scouting possible routes for enemy ambushes or secretively flying over enemy compound walls for a look inside.
The pocket-sized drones, which were unveiled at the Association of the U s army Expo for the first time last week,
are meant for a soldier s personal use, not unlike a walkie talkie, and is similarly easy to operate.
meaning the#drone#can travel nearly 4, 000 feet in one go. Images and camera feed are sent to a seven-inch wide mobile device supplied in the PD 100 kit,
The drone is pretty near invisible at 30 feet high, making it perfect for quick bouts of stealth surveillance.
and tweaking the drone for the ultimate stealth insect. Now I just need to get a hold of one to spy on my teenage sister
Witricity is working with the Pentagon to wirelessly charge those robots that disarm bombs. When soldiers try to plug in the robots for recharging,
they sometimes get shot by snipers. Doing it wirelessly would reduce the danger. In the medical world, patients with heart pumps have to have electric wires running out of their bodies,
which can cause infections. Witricity is working with heart pump maker Thoratec to create a wireless solution.
#Lockheed martin s SPAN spy rock could be the military s new secret weapon The surveillance technology is so small it can fit in a rock.
Lockheed martin showcased developments in their surveillance technology called SPAN (Self-Powered Ad hoc Network) at the annual AUSA Army meeting in Washington, D c. last week.
Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,
and every soldier, sailor, and construction worker to have within arm reach at any given moment?
Experimental projects are even testing how to dispatch farm drones (crop-spying quadcopters for example) that measure everything from reflectivity to water loss to optimize the efficiency of a farm operations. rom our perspective:
The situation is so dire that in late June the White house gave a new task force just 180 days to devise a coping strategy to protect bees and other pollinators.
#A rescue drone that finds survivors by tracking their mobile phone signals The drone can pick out the location of an individual phone within 30 feet.
The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne have developed a drone that can pinpoint the location of a mobile phone by picking up its Wi-fi signal.
Video) The drone, which was reported first by Robohub, can pick out the location of an individual phone within 30 feet.
The drone tracks how strong a signal is; a weaker signal can indicate that a person is trapped deeper down, giving rescue crews a 3d picture of where to search.
Drones are also already being used in search operations. They can also track heat signatures, helping rescue crews quickly spot a warm human being among an expanse of trees or snow.
Judges ruled earlier this week that a Texas search nonprofit could continue using drones after objections from the FAA.
The drone could also be used to provide Wi-fi if infrastructure was knocked out by a disaster,
Companies like Facebook and Google are looking into using drones and satellites to provide internet connectivity to remote corners of the world where installing internet cables is especially difficult.
The EPFL team noted its work underscores confidentiality issues with drones as its aircraft can pull phones Wi-fi network names and MAC addresses.
It s really about bringing about new innovation to customers. 3-D printers can whip up everything from#vagina selfies#to#handguns,
and many more military, immigration, territorial, and Indian Country#facilities. Compared to the rest of the world,
Starting in the 1970s with the rise of tough-on-crime politicians and the War on Drugs, America s prison population jumped eightfold between 1970 and 2010.
But police scrutiny often falls most heavily on people of color nonetheless.##In New york city alone, officers#carried out#nearly 700,000 stop
Any meaningful discourse on racism, poverty, immigration, the drug wars, gun violence, the mental-health crisis,
because uranium was an easier component for nuclear weapons. But times have changed, and thorium s status as a safer alternative to uranium is now a help,
not the hindrance it was during the Cold war. India, which has hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the metal amid its terrain
which can be used to make weapons. But who will be the first across the line in the thorium race?
Because once disgust shows up the brain of the disgust-feeler starts processing the other person (i e. the disgust trigger) as a toxin.
and other mental health problems through an assortment of real-time sensors (she was developed to help treat PTSD in soldiers
The state-by-state hiring data, released Friday by the Labor department, provides ammunition to the camp in favor of raising the minimum wage.
The company also recently began working on a project funded by the U s. military to make batteries for sensors that would monitor the health status of soldiers.
full-color 3d printer Mcor Iris 3d printer Most people think 3d printing involves a machine that either extrudes molten plastic, in a way similar to how a hot glue gun works,
and her boyfriend were in a nasty fight. While they were bantering back and forth, a small wireless device on her wrist was monitoring her emotional ups and downs (through heart rate monitoring and electrical changes in her skin).
and guns, guns, guns, to name a few examples. Video) There has been a lot of hype lately about 3d printing,
#World s first riot-control drone fires pepper spray and paintballs at protesters Skunk drone South africa-based Desert Wolf, the maker of a drone that fires pepper spray bullets,
and we are convinced that any reasonable government will move quickly to stop the deployment of advanced battlefield technology on workers
He added that the ITUC would now try to identify which company had ordered the drones.
Blinding lasers Desert Wolf s website states that its Skunk octacopter drone is fitted with four high-capacity paintball barrels, each capable of firing up to 20 bullets
In addition to pepper-spray ammunition, the firm says it can also be armed with dye-marker balls and solid plastic balls.
000 bullets at a time as well asblinding lasers and onboard speakers that can communicate warnings to a crowd.
the Defence Web news site has published a photo of the drone after it was unveiled at a security trade show near Johannesburg in May.
some security companies in South africa and outside South africa, some police units outside South africa and a number of other industrial customers.
and by removing the police on foot, using nonlethal technology, I believe that everyone will be much safer.
but local police were also among the casualties. Mr Kieser noted that Lonmin was not the customer in question.
Guy Martin, the editor of Defence Web, said he believed the drone was unique. The Skunk unmanned aerial vehicle with its four paintball guns, loudhailer and cameras is only a logical next step in the development of UAVS,
but nevertheless it is watershed a moment in their evolution and goes to show that UAVS have unlimited almost uses,
dart guns and paintball guns. But Noel Sharkey, chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms control campaign group
is concerned that the deployment of such drones riskscreeping authoritarianism and the suppression of protest. Firing plastic balls or bullets from the air will maim and kill,
he said. Using pepper spray against a crowd of protesters is a form of torture
We urgently need an investigation by the international community before these drones are used d
#Vessyl: A smart cup that tracks everything you drink Vessyl. There are a lot of fitness and health trackers on the market today:
They argue that we should not let computers replace positions such as law makers, judges, or police officers.
so people don t end up fighting with each other over the right setting or accidentally leaving the system on too long.
and drones to expand their reach and business operations: getting more people online means being able to offer services to larger populations.
Google in April purchased drone maker Titan Aerospace to help further#Project Loon, the company s initiative to bring the Internet to less-connected places around the world using high-altitude Wi-fi balloons.
Facebook which was said also to be in acquisition talks#with Titan Aerospace has focused on developing drones and satellites as a means for beaming Internet connectivity to more people.
like the holographic Princess Leia beamed by R2-D2 in the moviestar Wars.####A key to this future may lay in Carlsbad, Calif,
#Smart rifle uses Google glass to let you shoot around corners Google glass-equipped smart rifle. Trackingpoint is the company behind the U s army s new#smart rifle.
They are already famous for developing a gun that does all the hard work of aiming for you.
Armed with one of their precision guided firearms, you simply tag your targets as if you were piloting an Air force jet
and then aim your weapon where it tells you to. You re almost guaranteed to hit your target every time.
Video)##Apparently not satisfied with giving you the instant equivalent of military sniper training, the folks at Trackingpoint#have whipped just up another super power for you:
the ability to see around corners. They re calling the innovation Shotview, and what it does is link your smart rifle s sight to your phone, tablet or Google glass.
By networking your sight and your headset, you see everything your gun does streamed in real time. Basically, when you want to give yourself your gun s POV,
you simply select your scope as your Wi-fi server, open your Shotview app and you re suddenly able to see whatever your barrel is pointed at.
With a little practice, this means that you ll be able to aim your smart rifle from around corners
or behind cover and still have all the#precision#of a trained sniper. Unless you re out there stalking things with Spider-man s sixth sense for danger, your prey doesn t stand a chance.
a high school physics, has a class full of warriors, mages, and healers. Warriors get to eat in class,
mages can teleport out of a lecture, and healers can ask if an exam answer is correct.
Some kids also used the warrior s power to eat in class as an excuse to bring in a chocolate fondue.
Boots, magic, shields, potions. As students level up, they ll get gold coins as part of their reward.
It also plunges stick-in-the-mud farmers into an unfamiliar world of ig dataand privacy battles. Monsanto prescriptive planting system, Fieldscripts, had its first trials last year
#U s. military wants to teach robots how to make moral and ethical decisions How do you code something as abstract as moral logic into a bunch of transistors?
The United states military prohibits lethal fully autonomous robots. And semi-autonomous robots can elect and engage individual targets
or AI, research and machine ethics communities were quick to applaud the grant. ith drones,
missile defines, autonomous vehicles, etc.,the military is rapidly creating systems that will need to make moral decisions,
AI researcher Steven Omohundro told Defense One. uman lives and property rest on the outcomes of these decisions
The military has had always to define he rules of warand this technology is likely to increase the stakes for that. ee talking about putting robots in more and more contexts in
The sophistication of cutting-edge drones like British BAESYSTEMS batwing-shaped Taranis and Northrop grumman X-47b reveal more self-direction creeping into ever more heavily armed systems.
with a high potential to transform the battlefield. ne of the arguments for moral robots is that they may be even better than humans in picking a moral course of action
that an unmanned system will be able to be perfectly ethical in the battlefield, but I am convinced that they can perform more ethically than human soldiers are capable of,
Arkin wrote in a 2007 research paper (PDF. Part of the reason for that, he said,
He been highly critical of armed drones in general . and has argued that autonomous weapons systems cannot be trusted to conform to international law. do not think that they will end up with a moral or ethical robot,
It will follow a human designer idea of ethics. he simple example that has been given to the press about scheduling help for wounded soldiers is a good one.
if the military were to extend a system like this for lethal autonomous weapons weapons where the decision to kill is delegated to a machine;
University of Denver scholar Heather Roff, in an op-ed for the Huffington Post, calls that a isconcertinglack of oversight and notes that ielding of autonomous weapons then does not even raise to the level of the Secretary of defense, let alone the president.
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
Final Thoughts The Battle to Be First Call it national pride or a desire to have written your name in all of the history books,
Optical sensors or drones are able to identify crop health across the field (for example, by using infrared light).
#Facebook and Google are drooling over drone companies Last month it seemed as if Facebook would acquire the long-range solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace
and use its technology to deliver Internet to remote areas of the world. It was ostensibly a hedge against Google balloon-driven Project Loon and the possibility that Google,
and Facebook has acquired a different U k.-based solar-powered drones startup called Ascenta. And an answer to the question of how exactly the two Silicon valley giants will leverage their new technology?
Facebook isn breaking new ground by getting into commercialized drone technology, Bünger says, just keeping up. oogle has been working on the autonomous vehicles, the Nest acquisition,
Drones are one means of doing so. UAS are also a means of bypassing mobile carriers,
If Facebook does follow through with its ambitious plans to connect the next billion people through Facebook-owned Internet drones
and other companies threaten to do, at least with regard to drones. or Facebook and Google and those guys,
At $20 million, Facebook found its way into the drone space for a third of
The acquisitions certainly have the attention of the rest of the drone industry, which now largely consists of small,
With the FAA and other civil aviation authorities moving toward policies that allow for the commercial operation of drones in civilian airspace,
it seems a foregone conclusion at this point that more drone technology acquisitions are in the offing,
both of these drone acquisitions by Facebook and Google; a lot of this technology that has to do with wearables;
technologies that have to do with crunching all the data that you get from all these things those are the weapons you need to have with you going into the next competitive battles
#Google buys Titan Aerospace, a solar-powered drone company Solar-powered drone This week, Google announced the acquisition of Titan Aerospace for an undisclosed sum in a move that sees the technology
solar-powered aerial drones for the past few years Google acted fast to usurp an expected bid by Facebook to also acquire Titan Aerospace.
The New mexico-based company has been working on the development of solar-powered drones designed to fly unmanned
Solar-powered drones are an attractive proposition to company like Google and Facebook because of their reliability and stability in often adverse weather conditions.
Google s technical experts will work with Titan Aerospace to advance the material design for the drones wings,
Solar s influence Titan Aerospace caught Google s attention thanks to its innovative dragonfly-shaped drones that are powered by its wing-mounted solar panels
The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model, the Solara 50, is actually larger than a Boeing 767 jetliner, boasting a 164-foot wingspan.
said drone expert Patrick Egan. At night you are not collecting energy from the sun
However, a source close to Facebook has revealed that the social media giants had been reviewing Titan Aerospace s solar-powered drones some six months ago,
with the exception of some aircraft carriers and 72 submarines that rely on nuclear propulsion. Moving away from that reliance would free the military from fuel shortages
and fluctuations in price. t a huge milestone for us, said Vice Adm. Philip Cullom. e are in very challenging times where we really do have to think in pretty innovative ways to look at how we create energy,
The gasses are turned then into a fuel by a gas-to-liquids process with the help of catalytic converters. or us in the military, in the Navy,
#U s. Navy s newest warship is a drone The U s. Navy will christen its newest class of destroyers this month.
Think of it as a gigantic floating drone: ost UAVS unmanned aerial vehicles are a few million dollars, says Wade Knudson,
Unlike aerial drones, however, the Zumwalt will still have a human crew and it will know how to anticipate their needs.
you don have to be clinically paranoid to find something worrying in the prospect of a highly automated warship that can be controlled by anyone who has the right login information.
Perhaps the greatest comfort for those who fear the idea of an agile, 15,000-ton naval drone with stealth technology and missiles is won that there be too many of them.
After repeated pruning, the Navy will now have only three of its next-generation destroyers
or trigger a limiting function on the car speed to make the driver aware and maintain safe driving.
a Washington-based advocacy group that combats online crime. CANN has made a lot of mistakes, and ICANN has not really been a good steward.
This research was supported by Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grants from the Office of Naval Research and from the Army Research Office.
#Controversy brews over use of autonomous killer robots in war People are promised their quality of life will improve with the advances of technology,
As the science advances, it becoming increasingly possible to dispatch robots into war zones alongside or instead of human soldiers.
Israel and China, are already using partially autonomous weapons in combat and are almost certainly pursuing other advances in private, according to experts.
or tested by national militaries are, for now, more like robotic weapons than robotic soldiers.
Still, the line between useful weapons with some automated features and robot soldiers ready to kill can be disturbingly blurry.
Their use in war would likely save lives in the short run, but many worry that they would also result in more armed conflicts
and erode the rules of war and that not even considering what would happen if the robots malfunctioned
or were hacked. Seeing a slippery slope ahead human rights groups began lobbying last year for lethal robots to be added to the list of prohibited weapons that includes chemical weapons.
And the U n.,driven in part by a 2013 report by Special Rapporteur Christof Heyns,
In January, the Army successfully tested a robotic self-driving convoy that would reduce the number of personnel exposed to roadside explosives in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.
soldiers control them remotely. The U s. and Germany possess robots that automatically target and destroy incoming mortar fire.
And of course there are drones. While many get their orders directly from a human operator, unmanned aircraft operated by Israel,
and firing on aircraft and missiles. On some of its Navy cruisers, the U s. also operates Phalanx,
a stationary system that can track and engage anti-ship missiles and aircraft. The Army is testing a gun-mounted ground vehicle, MAARS, that can fire on targets autonomously.
One tiny drone the Raven is primarily a surveillance vehicle but among its capabilities is arget acquisition.
No one knows for sure what other technologies may be in development. ransparency when it comes to any kind of weapons system is generally very low,
so it hard to know what governments really possess, Michael Spies, a political affairs officer in the U n. Office for Disarmament Affairs,
told Singularity Hub. At least publicly, the world military powers seem now to agree that robots should not be permitted to kill autonomously.
That is among the criteria laid out in a November 2012 U s. military directive that guides the development of autonomous weapons.
In more cluttered environments like the cities where most recent wars have been fought, the sensing becomes less accurate.
but there are some risks that military robot operators may never be able to eliminate. Some issues are the same ones that plague the adoption of any radically new technology:
or the legal question of who responsible if a war robot malfunctions and kills civilians. he technology not fit for purpose as it stands,
Sharkey noted that warrior robots would do battle with other warrior robots equipped with algorithms designed by an enemy army. f you have two competing algorithms
Competing robot armies could destroy cities as their algorithms exponentially escalated, Sharkey said. An even likelier outcome would be that human enemies would target the weaknesses of the robotsalgorithms to produce undesirable outcomes.
The U s. sometimes programs its semi-autonomous drones to locate a terrorist based on his cell phone SIM CARD.
The militaries developing warfighting robots are assuming this model and starting with limited functions and use cases.
but it will begin to lay the groundwork for the role robots will play in war e
in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response.
This can trigger vicious cycleof increasing marijuana use that in some cases leads to addiction.
#Autonomous drones flock like birds Autonomous drone flock The first drones that can fly as a coordinated flock has been created by Hungarian researchers.#
Drones are designed typically to fly alone, and although other research groups have created flocks before, Vicsek says that those attempts involved cutting some corners the copters were restricted to indoor arenas or controlled by a central computer.
According to Vicsek, the only other truly autonomous drone flock was created in 2011 by robotics researcher Dario Floreano at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne1.
By contrast, his drones can coordinate their movements to form rotating rings or straight lines. If Vicsek tells them that they face a wall with a gap in it,
and these lags mean the drones often get too close to one another or overshoot their mark.
The drones did not flock successfully until the team managed to speed up their reaction times a challenge that Floreano
the drones communicate among themselves via radio, but that sometimes leads to jammed signals. Fitting them with cameras might provide a workaround.
Pointwise director of applied research. hat we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U s. Air force Arnold Engineering Development Complex,
Air force Materiel Command. That research was followed by a full year of fine-tuning in preparation for release to all our customers.
from military to industrial uses, the researchers said d
#Shrilk: Bug-Inspired'Plastic'Made from Shrimp Shells If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then insects have a lot to be flattered about.
Could honey's secret weapon against bacteria be other bacteria? Researchers in Sweden recently discovered a unique group of lactic acid bacteria living inside honeybees'honey stomachs an enlarged section of esophagus where the insects store nectar while foraging.
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U s. Department of defense responsible for developing new technologies for the military, provided funding for the $53. 5 million project.
and thus help regulate Earth's climate and combat global warming. Deforested land could potentially be offset with buildings
'The next generation of futuristic weapons has arrived. The U s. Navy announced that its high-tech laser weapon is ready to disable
and destroy enemy drones and small boats, should the need arise. The 30-kilowatt laser weapon system (Laws) is housed aboard the USS Ponce,
a naval vessel stationed in the Arabian Gulfa body of water located south of Iraq that separates the Saudi arabian peninsula from Iran.
militaries are allowed not to use laser weapons directly against people a condition that Klunder said the U s. Navy with abide by, according to Optics. org.
If an enemy boat or aircraft gets too close to a Navy ship, the laser can deter the threat with an effect known as optical"dazzling."
which will knock out the sensors or control systems on an enemy drone or vessel. If the adversary still doesn't get the hint,
In recent tests, Laws successfully hit targets aboard a small boat that was speeding toward the Navy ship.
The laser weapon also shot a small drone out of the sky according to Navy officials.""We ran this particular weapon, a prototype, through some extremely tough paces,
and it locked on and destroyed the targets we designated with near-instantaneous lethality,"Klunder,
The sailors who tested Laws reported that the weapon worked well even in high winds,
The data collected from these trial runs will be used to develop new laser weapons for the Navy under the Office of Naval Research's Solid-state laser-Technology Maturation program.
These future lasers could one day be deployed on both large destroyer ships (used to launch missiles) and smaller combat ships
These weapons are sought after because they don require highly explosive gunpowder or pressurized gas to destroy enemy targets,
making them safer for military personnel to operate. And since all they require is a steady supply of electricity,
laser weapons may also be more reliable than conventional weapons. Of course, the U s. military is also pursuing this new breed of weapons for economic reasons.
Laser weapons cost less to build install and fire, compared with multimillion-dollar missiles, Navy officials said."
"At less than a dollar per shot, there's no question about the value Laws provides, "Klunder said."
"With affordability a serious concern for our defense budgets, this will more effectively manage resources to ensure our sailors
and Marines are never in a fair fight.""The most recent tests of Laws are part of several rounds of testing that have occurred over the past three years.
In a 2011 test, a laser weapon disabled multiple small boats launched from a U s. warship. And in 2012, Laws downed several drones during a naval test of the system t
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