Raytheon Shows the Army a Universal Translator App
By Spencer Ackerman It’s been a white whale for the Army during a decade at war: building a translator that can let English-only troops communicate […]
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Begun, These Army Phone Wars Have
By Spencer Ackerman After 20 years, the Army has finally figured out how it wants to network soldiers together in a warzone: through something like […]
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Homeland Security moves forward with ‘pre-crime’ detection
By Declan McCullagh An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a […]
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Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
Image credit: Wired By Noah Shachtman A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they […]
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Can an Open Cloud Compete?
By Michael Fitzgerald The OpenStack Foundation, announced at the OpenStack conference in Boston, will maintain a suite of free software tools for building and managing […]
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Gadgets the Pentagon Made — From the Microwave to the New iPhone
By Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman The cool voice assistant that runs on the iPhone 4S? Years ago, someone thought what Apple calls Siri would […]
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The DIY-Drone of the Future Is … a Flying Pogo Stick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5IWrv2gZJg&feature=player_embedded By Dawn Lim Darpa is holding a contest to design the military’s next spy mini-drone. So far, the entrants include a flying pogo stick, […]
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Salute to Steve: Army Shows Off Soldier Smartphone Beta
By Spencer Ackerman It wasn’t one of those epic Steve Jobs product roll-outs. Not even close. But in an obscure warren of the Pentagon, the […]
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How Technology Made Occupy Wall Street Both Irrelevant and Ubiquitous
By Christopher Mims Watching the protest in lower Manhattan metastasize from an eager call for volunteers on various social networks to a full-on movement has […]
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Facebook Shares Its Cloud Designs
If you invented something cheaper, more efficient, and more powerful than what came before, you might want to keep the recipe a closely guarded secret. […]
