Navy close on making super-powerful railgun
(CBS/AP) NORFOLK, Va. – A super-powerful gun that shoots rounds more than 100 miles away — at several times the speed of sound — is being developed for Navy warships. The weapon is known...
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UN agency seeks to quell fears over its plans for the Internet
A gathering of United Nations diplomats overseas has some in the U.S. worried about a potential takeover of the Internet by foreign powers – with others claiming such fears are wildly overhyped. The obscure...
Text Spying? Facebook’s Got a ‘Smart’ App for That
LONDON – Internet giant Facebook is accessing smartphone users’ personal text messages, an investigation revealed Sunday. Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who downloaded the social-networking app and said that it...
Google and Facebook in White House web privacy sights
The White House has called on internet firms to develop stronger privacy protections for consumers. The move comes amid worries that browsing information is being tracked and given to advertisers. State attorneys in 36...
Bars, stores to use facial recognition technology to increase sales
A decade ago, in the Dreamworks movie “Minority Report,” billboards spoke directly to the characters in the movie and even knew their names. In just weeks, that science fiction plot will become reality as...
GPS at risk from terrorists, rogue nations, and $50 jammers
Humphreys was the keynote speaker at a conference of world experts organized by the UK – ICT Knowledge Transfer Network in London yesterday. His predictions for what lies ahead with this emerging threat were...
Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square
With Wikileaks and several other major players throwing their weight behind the project, a vaporware press release has made The Global Square go viral. Ever since a group of activists released the original proposal...
Water: to drink or charge your phone
Need energy to charge your phone or Unmanned Aircraft System? Just add water. Horizon Energy Systems has developed a new type of process that produces electricity by mixing water with the chemical, hydride. The...
DARPA RESEARCH ON ELECTRONIC NEURAL ARCHITECTURES CITED
Computers are constrained by physical limits, as well as the requirement for humans to program how computers interact with their environments. In contrast the human brain autonomously processes information and learns from its environment....
3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of Quake Sites
Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape, and it’s giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team of...
