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Navy’s New Solution to Bombs: Cook Them With Microwaves
There’s no end to what the U.S. military has tried against improvised explosives: mand-made lightning, bomb-handling robots, radio frequency jammers and electronics-frying high electromagnetic pulses....
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Your Computer: Hotel Says Do Leave Home Without It
Computers and televisions may some day be one. In the meantime, the folks at The Citizen Hotel in Sacramento have decided to simply do away with TVs altogether and replace them with Mac Minis. All 198...
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Run Wired, Run Deep: Subs May Finally Get Online
A nuclear submarine in deep dive may be the last place on Earth where it’s impossible to get a phone call, a text message or the day’s dose of spam. But all that may soon be over, if a Lockheed-led...
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In a First, Full-Sized Robo-Copter Flies With No Human Help
In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, Arizona, avoided obstacles during flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely. It’s the kind of flight choppers have...
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Report Blasts Military For Not Being Nuke-Proof
If, by some chance, you end up surviving the nuclear apocalypse, don’t count on the U.S. military to be around to help you rebuild. Or don’t expect all its fancy electronics and communications...
View ArticleBuild Us a Better Ray Gun, Pentagon Pleads
The Department of Defense continues its quest for the ultimate (or at least a working) ray gun, asking small businesses last week to submit ideas for lasers that sense, communicate, illuminate targets...
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Special Operations’ Robocopter Spotted in Belize (Corrected)
Watch out, humans, the U.S. military has released an all-seeing, unmanned helicopter-like aircraft into the wild, according to Aviation Week. The Boeing A160T Hummingbird was photographed in Belize,...
View Article10 Media Takes on the Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal
For a document with no actual authority behind it, the Verizon/Google policy proposal on openness rules for the country’s wired and wireless networks has caused quite the media storm. Today the authors...
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First Look: BioShock Infinite Satirizes American Imperialism, in the Sky
NEW YORK — There couldn’t have been a more fitting place for BioShock designer Ken Levine to unveil his latest videogame vision than the Plaza Hotel’s Terrace Room. “The time for silence is over,”...
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BioShock Infinite‘s Vision of a Nazified America
NEW YORK — Ken Levine said at the premiere of his new game last week that BioShock Infinite‘s plot was inspired by American exceptionalism — the idea that the United States is special among the nations...
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