Those who aren't convinced that UAS will change warfare permanently need to watch this video, posted yesterday: Pardon the cliche, but this technology is truly transformational. For some interesting commentary on swarms, check out John Robb. The naval applications are there, too. How could AEGIS, RAM, ESSM, CIWS, or any other envisioned air defense system defend against a lethal "suicide" dro...
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InformationDissemination on 2nd Feb 2012 (via informationdissemination.net)
Jim Murphy MP, Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary, responding to the release of the Government’s White Paper, ‘National Security Through Technology: Technology, Equipment and Support for UK Defence and Security’, said:
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LabourParty on 1st Feb 2012 (via labour.org.uk)
Commission to assess whether tech giant breached rules on access to its technology at reasonable prices
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FT on 31st Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
An £80m programme to provide frontline police with smartphones has left some forces with more mobiles than officers, says an auditors’ report
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FT on 27th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
Last week’s defeat of proposed legislation to combat online piracy was a victory for technology companies that argued the bill would stifle innovation
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Number one: the tradition of tying a string connected to the thumb of the corpse to a bell: Joe Canaday of Hippensteel said each person who has a green burial at The Preserve receives a GPS transmitter disk in the...
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BloodAndTreasure on 22nd Jan 2012 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
News that one of China’s leading wealth funds has taken a 9 percent stake in Thames Water is significant. The investment comes quick on the heels of a Gulf sovereign wealth fund taking a similar size stake in Thames Water’s parent company, Kemble. It’s a measure of confidence in Britain’s infrastructure technology and role in
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 20th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
The United States remained the primary backer of biotech crop technology in 2011, but adoption spread internationally as the total global planted area of genetically modified seeds grew 8% from a year ago, a new report says. More »
Experimental technology to capture, store and bury carbon emissions in geological formations is in line to receive a payout of as much as €1.37 billion from the EU’s energy infrastructure package, EurActiv has learned. More »
as near as I can figure our iPad does everything my laptop could do about 3 years ago. Tchah! Do you not understand? It does it more expensively which is just wonderful, isn’t it?
