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Why the US Military Can’t Just Shoot Down the Mystery Drones
“By all indications, [small unmanned aerial systems] will present a safety and security risk to military installations and…
How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe
LMT’s Pollaks says he has visited Ukraine often since the war began. Though he declines to give more…
The US Army’s Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On
This newfound push appears to have yielded several fresh experiments with exoskeleton technology in recent years. In 2018,…
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The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here
Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing American troops abroad, the US military is pulling…
Tesla’s Cybertruck Goes, Inevitably, to War
“They are cool because they look like something out of a video game and portray Kadyrov as a…
Trae Stephens Has Built AI Weapons and Worked for Donald Trump. As He Sees It, Jesus Would Approve
When I wrote about Anduril in 2018, the company explicitly said it wouldn’t build lethal weapons. Now you…
First Israel’s Exploding Pagers Maimed and Killed. Now Comes the Paranoia
“They don’t trust their smartphones, so they reach back to these more archaic devices, and those blow up.…
Your Phone Won’t Be the Next Exploding Pager
Amid ongoing violent conflict with Israel, Hezbollah’s digital communications and activities are also under constant barrage from Israeli…
Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset
When Palmer Luckey was hacking together virtual reality headsets at his startup Oculus VR in the mid-2010s, he…
The Japanese Robot Controversy Lurking in Israel’s Military Supply Chain
Japan, for example, makes it relatively easy to export dual-use technologies to the United States and Europe, and…