Army Times has just tested out the service’s new rifle, the XM8. To say the paper’s psyched would be somewhere south of an understatement. “One Awesome Weapon” is their XM8 cover story.
February 2004
One of the biggest complaints about domestic defense after 9/11 was that law enforcement officials still weren’t sharing what they knew about potential threats. In response, the Homeland Security Department put together a computer network for federal authorities to exchange information. But, until now, local cops — the guys on the front-lines of any anti-terror […]
The U.S. military isn’t just swapping soldiers in Iraq, the Associated Press reports. It’s slimming down, too. The Army’s 4th Infantry Division, which currently occupies a swath of Iraq north of Baghdad, will require 19 of the Navy’s massive “roll-on, roll-off” or Ro-Ro ships to carry away its vast collection of tanks… By contrast, the […]
Wired magazine has a big, fat preview of next month’s Darpa “Grand Challenge” — the million-dollar, all-robot road race from L.A. to Vegas. Meanwhile, Robots.net was a round-up of what the local press is saying about their hometown Grand Challenge teams.
An international space probe set to launch Thursday morning won’t just take the closest look yet at the core of a comet. It may shed light on the origin of life on Earth. A series of recent studies have suggested that comets may have brought water and amino acids — the building blocks of life […]
