Is Boeing’s Next Development An Air-To-Water Drone?
Unmanned machines suited for both land and water are nothing now, but a patent filing from earlier in the year indicates that someone at...
All Natural: New “Pheromone” Based Robotic Communication
Swarm robotics, an emerging field in robotics, deals with the coordination of multi-robot systems. In a feat of mechanical bio-mimicry, scientists in the field...
Self-Jamming Reveals Threats to US Satellite Communications
261 times this year American satellites’ communications were jammed. This wasn’t done by enemy forces or by unfriendly nations, such as Russia or China....
San Bernardino Shooter Was In Touch With International Terrorism Subject
Syed Rizwan Farook, the 28-year man who, with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed fourteen and injured twenty-one people in a San Bernardino social service...
Egozi’s Fury – The Global Spread of Islamic Terrorism
As I am writing these lines, the investigation of the mass murder in the US is well under way. It is already obvious that...
China’s New Toy-Sized “Armed Attack” Bots
China has unveiled “armed attack” robots at the 2015 World Robot Conference in Beijing. The robots are poised to be the latest technological defence...
US Flags More Than 500 For National Security Concerns
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data show that every day, hundreds of travelers going through airports, seaports, and land border crossings are flagged...
Nanomaterials Can Now Absorb Oil Spills
Researchers at Australia’s Deakin University have developed a material that has the potential to save the earth from future oil-spill disasters, and prevent a...
Google’s “Energy Kites” Projects Kicks Off
Google is ramping up recruiting at Makani, hinting that the ambitious project to create "energy kites" that generate cheap wind power is moving closer...
New Tools To Sift Through Data
After major terrorist attacks, pieces of information that could have potentially prevented or mitigated the threat are often found. The problem faced by analysts...
Ransomware Could Target Medical Devices
Medical devices may not be ever-present in headlines, but that does not mean no new developments in the field happen. Rather, in recent years...
As Thin As A Blade Of Grass: New IoT Chip
Manufacturers are in a constant race to produce the slickest and thinnest device on the market. A new chip from Freescale Semiconductor could help...
Diplomats Blame Assad For Employing Chemical Weapons
Despite publicly dismantling his chemical weapons stockpiles, and despite repeated assurances from his Russian partners that he has long since stopped using deadly gas...
To Thwart Radicalisation, France Is Tightening Security
Nearly 60 people suspected of Islamist radicalism have had their security clearances to work at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport revoked. The 86,000 individuals...
How Can Big Data On Climate Change Help The Planet?
The Earth is big and its climate is complicated, with many different variants to take into account in order to be able to tell...
Turkey Cracking Down On Refugee Smuggling
At least one of Turkey’s border is now being controlled more tightly. Following an agreement with the European Union, Turkey is cracking down on...
Study Reveals Increasing Number of ISIS Supporters in US
Authorities in the U.S. have arrested more than 50 people so far this year for activities related to the Islamic State of Iraq and...
Cut Power And The Crimean Blockade
For over a week Crimea has been without reliable power supply after explosions damaged pylons and cut off electricity supply from Ukraine.
While the...
Reporting Crime With Your Smartphone
If you live in the state of New York, reporting crimes and suspicious activity has just gotten a whole lot simpler. The New York...
Yet Another Airport Security Failure in the U.S
In yet another demonstration of the weakness of US airport security, a man nearly managed to board a flight with a stolen boarding pass....
Fighting Crime With Big Data
by Konstantin Bodragin
Computers predicting crime have become a staple of science fiction films, but it could soon be a reality. The way it works...
Religious War Is Already Here (Again)
Mendi Safadi
In order to understand the events we are experiencing in the Middle East in general and in Israel in particular, we must...
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This Twisting Kirigami Could Power the Next Generation of Soft Robots
Engineers have long looked to origami and kirigami for inspiration when designing lightweight structures that can transform shape without relying on complex mechanical systems....
