Watch The Great Leap: An Israeli, Locust Robot
Robotic assistance in natural disaster scenarios is one of the leading goals of current research and development in the field. The hefty price tag...
IoH – Internet of Humans
By Avi Yariv
A few weeks ago I heard a presentation of CEO of a leading Israeli company, developing technologies for IoT – the new...
Is Turkey Beginning to Arm Its Drones?
Turkey's local defense industry has successfully tested an armed, tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), industry and procurement officials said and added that the effort...
Jihadists Plans Are Public – Why Aren’t Authorities Acting?
Recently there have been increasingly vocal calls for weakening encryption heard around the world, with the strongest of them in the US. Federal authorities...
Autonomous Intrusion Detection Drone
Intrusion detection can be done with a variety of systems, from cameras to radar to human guards. Each approach has its advantages and limitations....
3D Imaging About To Get 1,000 Better
Researchers at MIT Media Lab have demonstrated a method of exploiting light polarisation - the phenomenon behind the polarised glasses used for 3D films...
Amazon’s IoT Platform Is Ready For Action
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has finally moved its cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform away from beta and into the release stage.
AWS IoT enables...
Anonymous Declares War On Turkey
Turkey has been accused by a variety of sources of aiding and abetting ISIS. Some of the accusations include giving medical treatment to ISIS...
Chinese Political Ideology Database Proposed
Studies in Ideological Education, a Chinese education ministry publication, has published a report with a proposal to track individual university students’ political views using...
Robots To Soon Touch The World Around Them
Depending on how you count them, humans have a variety of senses. The big five - sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch - provide...
Critics of UK “Snoopers Charter” Claim Massive Technical Flaws
Adrian Kennard, head of UK ISP Andrews & Arnold, an Internet service provider, has warned of major technical issues with the proposed Investigatory Powers...
New Technology Can Detect Physical Attacks Using WiFi Signals
The Internet of Things (IoT) is fast becoming an everyday reality, with about half of enterprises set to deploy IoT solutions by the end...
Israel and US to Promote Tech Development for First Responders
the Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has announced that the Israeli Ministry of Public Security and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
What Fingerprints Can Tell Us
Researchers are taking crime scene fingerprint identification to a new level. They have discovered a straightforward concept for identifying whether a culprit is male...
Blockchains To Protect UK’s Nuclear Power Plants
Power plants are some of the most critical bits on infrastructure. An attack against a power plant could incapacitate an entire region of any...
Technology Steps In to Aid Response In Active Shooter Scenarios
Active shooter scenarios require a swift and precise response from law enforcement and emergency services to minimise casualties and to save as many lives...
New Software Enters The UAV Flight Management Race
The airspace can be a crowded place, and with the emergence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) it is getting more crowded by the minutes....
A Comprehensive Cyber Attack On ISIS – Pros and Cons
The Pentagon is set to step up its cyber warfare efforts against ISIS, and is arguing that disabling the group’s computers, mobile phones, and...
Why Does China Want Israeli Robotics?
After Chinese investments in various sectors of the Israeli industry and especially Hi-Tech, it’s the robotics industry’s turn. An investment agreement of $20 million...
Foxcom: Communications Solution, Now For the Security Industry
Out of all the technologies surrounding us, perhaps the most revolutionary technology is the we use to communicate. The ability to contact a person...
Elbit Provides RUAG Defence with Cyber Security Simulator
Elbit Systems' wholly-owned subsidiary, CYBERBIT, was awarded a contract to provide the Switzerland-based company, RUAG Defence, with CYBERBIT’s CyberShield - Cyber Security Trainer and...
Big Data Can Help Fight Crime
The amount of data floating around the world is huge. According to some estimates, 4.5 quintillion bytes of data are created daily around the...
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One of the World’s Most Widely Used Machine Guns Is Evolving...
Machine guns remain a core element of infantry firepower, but the way soldiers use them has changed significantly over the past two decades. Modern...
