Japanese Humanoid Robot May Assist First Responders
By Arie Egozi, Japan
The new version of Japan's ASIMO — which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility — features enhanced hand dexterity, including...
Rising Threat: West-African Pirates
A rising threat: Piracy along West-African shores * Ships have been warned against gangs of Nigerian pirates * The main targets: Oil and gas...
New: Silent, Hybrid Motorcycle
Under development in the United States: Hybrid stealth motorcycles * To be used by special forces crossing enemy territory undetected.
The future of two-wheeled vehicles:...
FBI Image Databases Growing at an Alarming Rate
By 2015 the FBI's facial identification database will store 52 million photos of citizens * Courts forced the FBI to reveal the information to...
Meet the Giant Lobster Robot that Will Save Your Life
Meet the Crabster CR200 – one of the world's largets autonomous underwater robots, 2.4 meters long and shaped like a giant lobster * The...
Global Aviation is More Fragile than We Thought
The Icelandic volcano eruption of 2010 forced most European airports to shut down for days, affecting more than 100,000 passengers. True, that was an...
Hand in Hand – Big Data in Politics
What does big data have to do with politics? In the United States, for example, party consultants use advanced data analysis to help plan...
Drone Danger – Accidents Waiting to Happen
Drones have been expanding into the civilian world for a while now, and many private operators enjoy piloting them – but there are dangers....
Jordan is Israel’s Only Defensible Eastern Border
By Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan
Israel has a natural right to, and an internationally recognized need for, defensible borders. The Jordan Valley is the...
iHLS TV – Cyber Special Edition
Articles and issues discussed in this episode:
Israeli hackers retaliate, attack pro-Palestinian hackers
Microsoft searched Hotmail accounts illegaly
Ransomware attack caused Romanian citizen to commit suicide
Facebook fraud...
NY Police to Stop Spying on Muslims
The New York police unit in charge of collecting intelligence among local Muslims was shut down.
The New York Police Department shut down a special unit operating...
U.S. FAA Called to Expedite UAS Rulemaking
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) joined 31 other organizations in urging the Federal Aviation...
Experts: Moden Cyber and EW Go Hand in Hand
The future combination of cyber warfare and electronic warfare (EW): Lesson learned from an incident involving a U.S. drone brought down by the Russians...
New Study: Foreign Fighters in Syria
Hundreds of non-Arab volunteers from Asia have joined Syrian rebels, including members of Al-Qaeda and the global Jihad.
Rebel forces in Syria, fighting against Assad's...
Border Security Protects Us, Harms Animals
Borders and fences make it difficult for people to infiltrate areas – but they can't entirely prevent it. The same borders, however, severely disrupt...
The New Marines Autonomous Helicopter
One marine could control an autonomous, unmanned supply helicopter with an app on his tablet * A new U.S. Navy project.
One marine holding a...
Experts Call for Strict Control on Sniper Rifles
Efforts are intensifying to keep the most deadly and powerful sniper rifles on the market out of the hands of terrorists to protect Illinois...
iHLS TV – Moshe Patel, on Israel’s Missile Defense Systems
Interview with Col. (Res.) Moshe Patel, Senior Director of C4I Systems at Elbit Systems - Elisra, on Israel's missile defense systems.
New York: Red License Plates for Emergency Vehicles
Governor Andrew Cuomo last week announced that the Department of Motor Vehicles will begin issuing the first New York State emergency management red license...
Terrorism Insurance to Save Money for U.S. Government
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, terrorism risk insurance quickly became either unavailable or very expensive. Congress reacted by...
Flying Car’s Maiden Flight
Advanced Tactics Inc. announced that it has successfully completed the first flight test of the Black Knight Transformer, a modular and roadable vertical takeoff...
Report: Countries Neglect Passport Theft
Countries do not report stolen or lost passports to Interpol * “This is a threat to civilian aviation security”, according to U.S. DHS experts.
Many...
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Millions of LinkedIn Details Exposed in Latest Scraping Incident
A newly discovered dataset containing millions of scraped LinkedIn profiles has renewed concerns about how easily professional information can be harvested, aggregated, and reused...
