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13 microsecond GPS error causes 12 hours of problems
Time monitoring company Chronos reports that several companies were affected by a small glitch in Global Positioning System (GPS), when 15 satellites broadcast the...
Ultrasound Imaging In Live Broadcast
Prof. Yonina Eldar’s laboratory at the faculty for electrical engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) is developing an innovative approach for ultrasound...
Hackers Made Off With Massive FBI, DHS Employee Database
A rogue hacker group managed to penetrate the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secure network and make off with a database containing the...
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This last summer Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was superseded by the shiny and new Microsoft Edge browser, and everyone rejoiced. The aging IE, fraught with...
Turkish Drone Anka Is Ready For Take-Off
The Anka, a medium-altitude, long-endurance drone developed by Turkish Aerospace Industry (TAI) made its debut missionary flight, Turkish aerospace officials said. The Anka is...
The Fight For Mandating UAV Training
The US Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) think all unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) owners should be required to pass an online training course to...
An Inventive Solution For Smart City Infrastructure
According to data from the ministry of national infrastructure, by 2030 the population in cities of the world is expected to grow to 5...
Watch: The Robotic Chameleon That Will Revolutionize Camouflage
Disguise and camouflage are two of the most useful tactics for any military. We see examples of their effectiveness everywhere. From plain old military...
Don’t Panic: The Web Is Not ‘Going Dark’
More widespread use of encryption in software will not make the internet “go dark,” nor will it hamper law enforcement investigations into crime and...
Why Is Microsoft Drowning Its Servers?
We sometimes tend to think of the internet as some ethereal thing. We connect to the WiFi, and it’s just there - Facebook, YouTube,...
Could This Be the Future of Transportation?
Student engineers at MIT have won a competition to make Elon Musk’s (of Tesla Motors and SpaceX fame) idea for a Hyperloop that moves...
IAI Joins Effort to Supply Protection Against UAV’s
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has joined the wide effort to bring to the market an effective system that can detect and foil attacks by...
Google’s Go Victory Heralds New Age Of Strategy
by Konstantin Bodragin
In case you haven’t heard, Google just made a pretty big splash in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) world. The company’s London-based DeepMind...
New Software Can Detect Nuclear Blasts
When North Korea conducted its recent nuclear weapon test, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory...
Open Source: “The New Normal” For Big Data
Big Data is going open. Open-source, that is. Hadoop and Apache Spark are some of the biggest, hottest technologies in Big Data at this...
Hankuk Carbon and IAI To Develop Next Generation VTOL UAV
Hankuk Carbon, a Korean composite manufacturer, and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have signed a MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) to establish a Joint Venture to...
DHS Is Calling For Ways Of Improvement
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a request for information, stating that it wants businesses to present it with their most cutting-edge...
Airbus To Release Anti-UAV System
Many defence experts are worried about the increasing prevalence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and their potential to be used for spying or terrorist...
Backdoor-riddled Devices Sold To US Army, White House
AMX, a supplier of audio-visual and building control equipment among whose clients you’ll find the US Army and the White House, built in a...
Watch: 4D Printed Materials That Change Over Time
3D printing is in itself a new technology, but some enterprising researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute are already taking it a step further by...
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