“Its not exactly NASCAR,” says Engadget’s Peter Rojas, “but we did get a kick out of watching robot after robot starting up and then moments later either crashing into a wall, stalling, or catching on fire.“ Check out footage from Darpa’s ill-fated Grand Challenge robot race here.
March 2004
America is only in the first year of the kind of fight Israel has been waging for decades. So it’s only natural that the Pentagon is starting to get some of its combat technology from Tel Aviv. “From tennis ball-sized sensors that can be thrown or shot from snipers rifles into terrorist lairs to wall-breaching […]
“Popular science magazines used to be aimed at the geeky wannabe inventor,” Salon says. “Today, it’s all about the glamour of war.”
Fareed Zakaria has a must-read Newsweek column on “the rise of a new phenomenon in global politics: terrorism that is not state-sponsored but society-sponsored.” Al Qaeda has lost its base in Afghanistan, two thirds of its leaders have been captured or killed, its funds are being frozen. And yet terror attacks mount from Indonesia to […]
“Whatever you may think of the Israeli decision to eliminate Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin, it is vaguely creepy that the killing of specific individuals can now be done from the air,” writes Gregg Easterbrook. “And it’s about to get creepier, because this task may soon be taken over by remote-controlled drones.“ THERE’S MORE: Israel Aircraft […]
