U.S. Troops Will Soon Get Tiny Kamikaze Drone
By Spencer Ackerman AeroVironment calls its teeny-tiny killer drone the Switchblade. Essentially a guided missile small enough to fit in a backback and fire at […]
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Smart Phones Could Hear Your Password
By Robert Lemos The sensors inside modern smart phones present a range of security threats. An attacker who compromises a phone can, for example, track […]
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Google Encrypts Search to Thwart Wi-Fi Hackers
By Ryan Singel Google radically expanded Tuesday its use of bank level security that prevents Wi-Fi hackers and rogue ISPs from spying on your searches. […]
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Paging Jesse Ventura: Iowa Guard Builds Predator-Style Ammo Packs
By Andrew Tarantola Remember that scene in the movie Predator, when Jesse Ventura is unleashing his M-134 mini-gun into the forest? It was being fed […]
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Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch
By David Salisbury An interdisciplinary team of scientists has taken a major step toward automating the scientific process with the Automated Biology Explorer (ABE) […]
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New App Guides Commandos Parachuting Into Danger
By Spencer Ackerman Jumping out of an airplane wasn’t exactly a precision mission. Until now. Sure, executing a jump takes precision: troops need to descend […]
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Future computers that modify themselves
By Megan Fellman Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial that can “steer” electrical currents. The development could lead to a computer that […]
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Those Scan Results Are Just an App Away
By Anne Eisenberg Dr. Gagnon, a radiation oncologist, uses the app when he sees patients in his Fairhaven, Mass., office. He pulls his iPhone out […]
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Psychopathic killers: Computerized text analysis uncovers the word patterns of a predator
By Jeffrey T. Hancock, Michael T. Woodworth, Stephen Porter The words of psychopathic murderers match their personalities, which reflect selfishness, detachment from their crimes and […]
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Now You See ‘Em, Now You Don’t: Stealth Weapons From Around the World
By Adam Rawnsley Not long ago, the U.S. was the only country in the world with aircraft that could stroll the skies without fear of […]
