North Korea’s Nuclear Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile May Be Years Away
North Korea’s militaristic rhetoric may be strong, and declarations of offensive technological supremacy are rife, but meaningful results are years away, according to analysts....
Watch: Air And Ground Autonomous Vehicles Cooperate
Autonomous ground vehicles and aircraft provide untold benefits to troops around the world. They can (and do) perform some of the more dangerous tasks,...
Nokia Accused of Selling Surveillance Equipment to Egypt
Human rights advocacy group Privacy International has accused Finnish telecommunications firm Nokia Networks and controversial Italian cybersecurity firm Hacking Team of secretly selling surveillance...
Watch: China’s Most Lifelike Robot Yet
The University of Science and Technology (UST) in Anhui, China recently showcased its incredibly realistic-looking humanoid robot. Jia Jia can talk, make facial expressions,...
UAVs Able to Turn with Moving Weights’ Help
Sampath Reddy Vengate, a recent MA graduate from University of Texas at Arlington in science and engineering, is the first person to successfully test...
Solar Powered Drone Continues Breaking Records
The solar-power AtlantikSolar unmanned aircraft system (UAS) last month demonstrated its ability to assist in search-and-rescue (SAR) missions associated with the refugee crisis occurring...
Hitachi to Enter Counter-Terror Field
Hitachi announced that it will begin providing "walk-through type explosives trace detection system" for critical infrastructure facilities such as power plants and data centers...
Police Covering Tech Gap
A 21st-century police vehicle is a camera, cellular link, and computer system. Police who investigate crime scenes can record every detail of the location...
Scientists Find Innovative Method for Remote Landmine Detection
Scientists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have developed a new system that uses a combination of lasers and glowing bacteria for unexploded ordnance...
An iHLS Startup: Technology Saves Lives in Burning Skyscrapers
Few people know, but the reason fire procedures instruct people to refrain from elevator use in case of a fire in a high story...
Defense Business Options to Open Up in India
The Indian market is currently the major market for the Israeli defense industries. During recent years, the Israeli companies, mainly IAI, supplied weapon systems...
China and Russia Expand Cooperation in Dual-Use Technolgy
China and Russia are looking into closer industrial cooperation in the development of military and civilian products. The Russian high-tech conglomerate Rostec Corporation large-scale...
US UAV Fleet to Be Upgraded
The most widely deployed UAVs in the United States Department of Defense fleet will be enhanced with new upgrades. AeroVironment, a global leader in...
iHLS TV – Ebola, domestic extremism, Shellshock bug, new octocopter and...
In this weekly report (7 October 2014):
Ebola as seen from space
Domestic extremism Summit at the Whitehouse,
Hackers unleash Shellshock bug
New octocopter UAS
Darpa looking into the...
Golani “Mental trainer”
IDF's Golani Brigade has begun using Neurofeedback a in the framework of training. This innovative treatment tool is designed to train combat fighters in...
Small UASs Innovations
Among the main attractions at the recent CES fair in Las Vegas, was the unmanned aerial system (UAS) show. Some of the featured models...
The trend continues – manned aircraft go unmanned
Executive plane becomes Hammerhead UAV
The Piaggio Aero Company and Selex ES successfully completed the first flight of the aptly-named Hammerhead UAV. The aircraft was...
WATCH: Underwater Robot That Will Clean Fukushima
After an earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal areas and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, plans were...
China Boosts Surveillance State Using (Not) Big Data
In a not surprising turn of events, China is employing ever more sophisticated technologies in its surveillance apparatus to allow authorities to profile and...
Drones Will Monitor Border In Calais
Border control officers will now be using drones to monitor the movement of unathorised migrants attempting to cross the English Channel tunnel into the...
How Companies “See” End-Devices on Networks?
IPM, an IT company, and ForeScout Technologies Inc., an agentless and Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity company, announced that they have partnered to deliver...
Printing Parts with 3D Technology – Risk for Defense Industries?
Defense and aerospace Industries have been facing the risk of bogus parts manufactured by 3D printers.
The issue of product safety in these industries is...
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