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,
The pocket-sized drones, which were unveiled at the Association of the U s army Expo for the first time last week,
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,
#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.
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:
#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,
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,
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.
The state-by-state hiring data, released Friday by the Labor department, provides ammunition to the camp in favor of raising the minimum wage.
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 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,
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.
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:
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.
#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:
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.
Boots, magic, shields, potions. As students level up, they ll get gold coins as part of their reward.
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,
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.
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,
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
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
#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.
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.
human rights groups began lobbying last year for lethal robots to be added to the list of prohibited weapons that includes chemical weapons.
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,
That is among the criteria laid out in a November 2012 U s. military directive that guides the development of autonomous weapons.
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:
The U s. sometimes programs its semi-autonomous drones to locate a terrorist based on his cell phone SIM CARD.
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.
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 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.
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."
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
#Transparent solar windows generate energy without obstructing the view Imagine being able to generate solar energy on the surface of every window
Bio-Bus can travel 186 miles on a full tank of biomethane (or biomethane as they might say across the pond) gas which requires the annual waste of five people to produce according to the operator of the Bristol sewage treatment works GENECO.
#$1. 7 million personal submarine lets you'fly'underwater Adventurers with deep pockets can now explore the hidden depths of the ocean,
thanks to a futuristic submarine that lets users"fly"underwater. The Deepflight Super Falcon, developed by California-based Hawkes Ocean Technologies,
"The submarine is 21 feet (6. 4 meters) long, and has a wingspan that stretches nearly 9 feet (2. 7 m). The submersible can carry two
submarines are constructed with an inner shell and an outer shell. To dive, submarines fill the space between the two shells with water,
changing the ship's density and creating so-called negative buoyancy when the gravitational tug on the sub is greater than the force of buoyancy.
When submarines remain on the water's surface the area between the two shells is filled with air,
Just hit'print'From working guns to bionic ears 3-D printers are creating a variety of objects
which robots are able to defuse bombs and clean up nuclear disasters.""By having flexible robots, we're contributing to the next phase of automation.
Google is exploring the use of high-altitude balloons Facebook is eyeing autonomous drones and now Richard Branson and Virgin galactic are pursuing microsatellite clusters.
as well as cap the amount of fissile weapons material it produces.""India retains, deal or no deal,
the capability to produce weapons-grade material at a far higher rate than it is believed to have done ever
because the technique used does not rely on the same DNA reassembly process used in conventional'shotgun'sequencing g
The imager was placed on board a research rocket at the White sands Missile Range in New mexico and flown to the edge of space.
A team member started analysing the data on the drive back from the missile range, and immediately saw evidence of braids in the twists of coronal gas.
The researchers do not know what triggers the reprogramming event but they suspect that the mechanism could exist in other infectious diseases."
The genetic mingling coincided with the arrival in Australia of microliths#small stone tools that formed the tips of weapons
"It is possible that the experience of birth triggers a set of processes that prime the brain of a premature infant to respond to language in ways that a same-aged fetus will not
Shining a light on the cells triggers a cascade of biochemical reactions that transfer electrons along a chain of molecules#and switches the transistor on.
and these can trigger rhythmic movements in the legs. sing statistical methods, we were able to identify a small number of basic patterns that underlie muscle activities in the legs and control periodic activation or deactivation of muscles to produce cyclical movements,
Scientists still do not know what triggers the majority of Alzheimer s cases making it difficult to develop a treatment.
versus creating a reactive response which shields the electronics. Lieber said the stiffness of flexible electronic sensor is four to six orders magnitude bigger than current electronics. ells can penetrate through this,
What It Like to Ride in a Fighter jet? Find Outoddly, the research has a connection to another focal point of conspiracy theoristshe 9-11 attacks.
Soon they may become a leading weapon in the global fight against disease. Researchers have designed a cheap,
it would be needed a much weapon against several increasingly hard-to-treat infections. Many existing antibiotics, including penicillin,
#'Superspreading event'triggers MERS explosion in South korea SEOULUTHORITIES in South korea are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the deadly Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS.
They want everyone to have the chance to use space imagery to settle legal disputes from homeowners disputing garden boundaries to businesses fighting vehicle theft.
In cases where images with greater resolution are needed the pair plan to use aerial imagery from drones provided local aviation and privacy laws permit.
Hydrogen fuel cells can power vehicles ranging from cars to submarines and rockets. They can also heat buildings
The mysterious rock may be known the first piece of the bullet that sparked an explosion of life on early Earth.
The waves were said to be the smoking gun evidence for the theory of inflation which suggests that space expanded faster than the speed of light in the first moments after the universe's birth.
and one day people on the surface of Mars. The Low density supersonic decelerator (LDSD) will be lofted into the stratosphere from the US NAVY's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai.
The basics of rocket technology and missile technology are largely symbiotic. It seemed a good idea at the time.
#Earth raises a plasma shield to battle solar storms Earth can raise shields to protect itself against solar storms.
Our solar system has a tail reminiscent of a four-leaf clover according to new observations of the plasma bubble that shields the solar system from the rest of the galaxy.
and spreads the heliosphere into a bullet shape with an extended tail at the back (see image).
#Tabletop accelerator shoots cheap antimatter bullets Make way for the antimatter gun. A tabletop device just 10 square metres in size can spit out energetic bursts of positrons as dense as those kicked out by the giant particle-factories at CERN.
Each positron-packed bullet lasts for just a fraction of a second so don't expect to fill the tank of your antimatter engine any time soon.
The team call their device an antimatter gun because the bursts of positrons last just 30 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second).
This article will appear in print under the headline Antimatter bullets get fast and chea a
Developing cybersecurity policy frameworks for autonomous vehicles like drones and self-driving cars; andhow to achieve regional and even global agreements on both privacy and security norms in online environments.
package-delivering drones, and other autonomous, route-planning vehicles. s designers, when we can compare the robot perceptions with how it acts,
In one scenario, the team is looking into the role of drones in fighting forest fires. Such drones may one day be used both to survey
and to squelch fires first observing a fire effect on various types of vegetation, then identifying and putting out those fires that are most likely to spread.
To make fire-fighting drones a reality the team is first testing the possibility virtually.
In addition to projecting a drone intentions, the researchers can also project landscapes to simulate an outdoor environment.
shown from an aerial perspective to simulate a drone view as if it were flying over treetops.
the team plans to use the system to test drone performance in package-delivery scenarios.
It s very similar to fighter jets which are made unstable so that you can maneuver them easily she says.
MIT engineers have turned now a powerful new weapon on these superbugs. Using a gene-editing system that can disable any target gene they have shown that they can selectively kill bacteria carrying harmful genes that confer antibiotic resistance or cause disease.
Lu and colleagues decided to turn bacteria s own weapons against them. They designed their RNA guide strands to target genes for antibiotic resistance including the enzyme NDM-1
At a certain trigger temperature the coils contract to their remembered form such as a fully coiled spring tightening the cuff in the process.
However at a certain trigger temperature (in this case as low as 60 C) the fiber will begin to spring back to its trained tightly coiled state.
and active materials may be used for other purposes such as in athletic wear or military uniforms. You could use this as a tourniquet system
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