4 Things You Need To Know About The Future Of Defense Technology
Technology Trends spotted at the 2013 Sea-Air-Space Exposition The Sea-Air-Space Exposition opened in Maryland yesterday. It is one of the U.S. defense industry's largest trade shows--a place where...
View ArticleNew Chemical Trick To Make Fertilizer That Won't Explode
Technology It turns out another industry's trash is fertilizer's lifesaver. The same chemical that makes fertilizer so useful also makes it really cheap bomb fuel. Researchers at Sandia labs in...
View ArticleDARPA Wants To Build A Better Battlefield Internet
Technology War waits for no router setup. Functioning internet takes time to set up, which is not a luxury a military on the move usually has, and it's definitely not an option when…
View ArticleU.S. Army Creates Shoebox-Size Universal Battery Charger
Technology It charges eight batteries and two USB devices at once. Battery chargers are finally getting a military upgrade. This is big! Not in a literal sense—that honor goes to the previous battery...
View ArticleChinese Hackers Steal Plans To Dozens Of U.S. Weapons Systems
Technology The cheapest weapons program? Looting another nation's R&D;. Chinese hackers have compromised designs for more than two dozen U.S. military weapons and technology programs, according to...
View Article10 Improvised Weapons Made By Syrian Rebels
Military Necessity is the mother of destruction. Click here to enter the gallery Syrian rebels have developed all sorts of crazy weapons to fight against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. They...
View ArticleTo Build Better Sonar, U.S. Navy Turns To Cicadas
Technology Solving the mystery of the cicada's clamorous thrum This summer, billions of cicadas will rise from under the East Coast, shed their grub-like bodies, and clumsily fly to perches in trees,...
View ArticleThe 6 Most Important Things We Learned From Edward Snowden's Guardian Q&A
Technology Two weeks ago, the Guardian published PowerPoint slides detailing a previously unknown, sweeping surveillance program by the National Security Administration. Shortly…
View ArticleA Monocle That Summons Airstrikes With The Push Of A Button
Technology Ignore the inevitable Google Glass comparisons, this is all Call of Duty. A new helmet design by Raytheon, exhibited at the Paris Air Show this week, wants to summon firepower from the sky...
View ArticleHow A Pressure Cooker Bomb Works [Infographic]
Technology It's an older recipe than you'd think. Pressure cookers heat food with steam, using increased internal atmospheric pressure to heat and trap steam beyond its normal limit of 212 degrees...
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