#Newly-discovered compound gives hope in fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria Over the past quarter century,
shows that antibiotics are still in the fight. The compound is called teixobactin and was discovered using a device called the ichip,
970 fuel cell stack-related patents, 290 high-pressure hydrogen tank patents, and 70 hydrogen production and supply patents.
wee seen a number of"smart windows"pop up that act as high-tech shutters to shield incoming light during those hot sunny days.
and laptops are fighting a losing battle when it comes to keeping these devices juiced up
The law began in the 1970s as part of the early War on Drugs, and while it has spiked in recent years ostensibly to fight terrorism,
what we in terms of technology and equipment to fight forest fires, he said. Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land.
#This prototype NYPD cruiser is the smartest cop car in the world To the untrained eye,
this prototype New york Police department cruiser looks like almost any other squad car combing the streets of New york city.
But this high-tech cruiser is the smartest cop car in the world.##It is the department s prototype##smart car,##outfitted with the latest gadgets in public safety.
The NYPD says it is the cruiser of the very near future. The smart car is one of dozens of projects included in a long-term strategic plan known as NYPD2020,
a police cruiser should give officers information that helps them make better decisions in the field.##
We have a shield, we have a fire extinguisher##we have a very powerful flashlight, we have a first aid kit.
and will be fully open##with a firearms and driver training courses##in 2018, the report said.
because we didn t expect the cells to be able to survive being fired out of a cannon.##
Semi-autonomous telemarketing connects nicely with the developments it parallels in the drone world.#####Ventriloquistic telemarketing##has a nice, multisyllabic ring, too.
but because I got in a fight with my wife or I hate this call center job or
##I am from the future The Hawaii development comes amid battles in California, Arizona and Colorado over the future of net energy metering (NEM).
#Mclaren aims to replace windshield wipers with fighter jet technology A new wiper-free windshield is being developed by Mclaren.
The car company, Mclaren is designing a sports car that uses a system adapted from fighter jets to keep a driver s vision clear in bad weather without the need for blades.##
and with a full tank of fuel it never gets tired. You do#not#want this thing chasing after you.
and the Cyber Gym s instructors are versed well in the art of cyber warfare.####We re a group of professionals from the army, security services and (straight) from university,##said an instructor who called himself##Mister
when the fight is conducted in the ether.####An attack could end with damage to equipment,
Last month, the armed forces chief of staff painted a grim picture of a future war in which the Jewish state comes under simultaneous attack both on the ground and in cyber space.##
and fruit trees laden with unpicked oranges, on the front lines of a new battlefield. Asked whether Israel was concerned more about a physical or a virtual attack,
##I think the future battle will be in cyber space.####Via News. com. au Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat r
#UPS researching drones to compete with Amazon Prime Air UPS researching delivery drones. Amazon made headlines
when it announced it was working on small drones that could deliver customers packages in half an hour or less someday.
and evaluating different approaches to drone delivery. Asked for a comment, a company spokesman said that,
##The commercial use of drones is an interesting technology and we ll continue to evaluate it.
a law professor specializing in drones and robotics.####If you want to compete in logistics and delivery,
drones and unmanned robots have to be part of the conversation about where things are headed.####So far UPS has kept quiet about its plans,
perhaps because any drone delivery project is years away from being legal and operational. For Jeff Bezos, on the other hand##who admitted that his#drone fleet probably won t be available for some time##the news was timed perfectly to hit on Cyber Monday, driving tons of free publicity to Amazon on the biggest online shopping day of the year.
UPS has a number of different ways it might utilize drones. It could offer something similar to Amazon s Prime Air,
or it might use them to help move packages around its own warehouses. Calo was skeptical of the video offered up by Amazon
where a drone drops off a package in a family s suburban driveway.####I think from both a tech
##But a company like UPS could use drones to bring packages quickly and cheaply from a major airport or city to pick-up centers in more remote locations, speeding up delivery for a lot of customers.##
##Others in the industry are more bullish on how quickly a drone delivery service could be up and running.
According to Colin Guinn, the North american CEO for the drone manufacturer DJI,##A company like Amazon or UPS could have a safe, operational fleet in 18-24 months,##he tellsthe Verge.##
whether its competitors, regulatory battles, or a shortage of drivers. Uber raised a whopping $285 million in August 2013#to fuel its international expansion
how many miles are left to be driven on the current tank of gas, tire pressure, and radio and entertainment usage.
but he hopes it will allow his prototype to evolve into a new generation of very small and inexpensive drones.
miniature drone. Of course, any practically useful version of the jellyfish would have to carry a small battery and a navigation system##right now,
and he isn t comfortable with the Obama administration s use of drones. But, he said,
##Having good drones could, overall, save lives also. I know it s a big, thorny issue.##
taking 3, 000 megawatts of carbon-intensive electricity off the grid in the face of intense opposition from coal miners and politicians decrying##Obama s war on coal.##
It s a battle being fought elsewhere in the country as utilities grapple with an existential threat to their century-old business model.
Snowden s leaked files are like the#Trinity test#the first detonation of a nuclear bomb.
Prior to that governments knew that a nuclear bomb was feasible and some were feverishly working on making one,
The Trinity test, first brought the power and potential horror of a nuclear bomb to the attention of people around the world.
many players and many fist fights. Country vs Country Countries now realize, if they hadn known t actually it all this while,
#World s first 3d printed metal gun Solid Concepts 3d printed metal gun. The first 3d printed gun was the Liberator pistol.
Then came the Grizzly, a 3d printed rifle. Now a third one has surfaced, and it s a doozy.
This one is printed entirely out of metal and the gun s design was copied from a classic 1911 model.
Video)##The company behind the new 3d-printed gun is called Solid Concepts, and like the creator of the Liberator pistol, they re based in good ol Texas. Now,
to be fair, Solid Concepts states that they didn t print their gun for any nefarious reasons.
They simply wanted to show the world that metal 3d printed objects can stand up to the pressures of everyday use.
That said, Solid Concepts does have a federal firearms license, so it s not like they just randomly settled on printing a gun either.
The 3d-printed metal gun was constructed using a laser sintering process capable of shaping tougher metals like stainless steel.
It s not exactly an at home desktop 3d printing technology, so hobbyists won t yet be capable of replicating this sort of weapon at home.
That s reassuring, since the folks at Solid Concepts have fired already successfully their handgun 50 times without it failing. 3d printers capable of printing metal are#on the rise,
meaning that guns like the one Solid Concepts created#may#become something you ll be able to just print up over the weekend in the days to come.
Also of note, the gun which was printed just 3d was old enough that its design was public domain.
That means that the people who do already have the equipment to 3d print a gun have quite a few design options at their disposal
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#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,
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,
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,
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.
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.
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 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.
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:
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:
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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
#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.
#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.
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.
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
The U s. sometimes programs its semi-autonomous drones to locate a terrorist based on his cell phone SIM CARD.
but it will begin to lay the groundwork for the role robots will play in war e
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