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Human takeover by machines may be closer than we think
Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords? The idea of superintelligent machines may sound like the plot of "The Terminator" or "The Matrix," but many experts say the idea isn't far-fetched. Some even think
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Pentagon to Build Robots With ‘Real’ Brains
A Pentagon-funded team of scientists have constructed a machine that functions like a human brain and would enable robots to think independently and act autonomously
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Pentagon’s DARPA reveals their most human-like robot yet
The Pentagon’s army of space-age robot warriors is getting a lot more real. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has released video footage of a project that’s been long in the works and
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Harry Potter-Like Invisibility Cloak Works (in a Lab)
A miniature version of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak now exists, though it works only in microwave light, and not visible light, so far. Still, it's a nifty trick, and the physicists who've created the new
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Next generation military robots have minds of their own
Think of advanced robotics, and it is easy to let your mind wander to the sentient beings depicted in Blade Runner, or the soulless, autonomous assassins in the Terminator franchise. But, despite widespread press about
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Activists launch campaign against ‘autonomous weapons’: Killer robots must be stopped
Autonomous weapons’, which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban “killer robots” before they reach the production stage is
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Flying high: Iran seizes ‘another foreign’ spy drone
Iran said they took out a 'foreign enemy' drone during a military exercise being conducted by Revolutionary Guard forces. A Guard spokesman later clarified that the drone in question was in fact a part
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Iran releases decoded footage from captured U.S stealthy RQ-170 drone
Iran has just released footage that proves it has, if not literally decoded, at least accessed some of the data stored inside the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in December 2011. The video, that was
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Injectable Foam Blocks Internal Bleeding on the Battlefield
Despite their best efforts to stabilize abdominal wounds sustained on the battlefield, military first-responders have few options when it comes to stanching internal bleeding caused by, for example, gunshots or explosive fragments. The Defense
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Iran says captures two U.S.-made miniature surveillance drones
Iran has captured two miniature U.S.-made surveillance drones over the past 17 months, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. Several drone incidents over the past year have highlighted tension in the Gulf as Iran and the
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Iran arms all surface, sub-surface units with electronic warfare systems: Cmdr.
Senior Iranian commander Rear Admiral Amir Rastegari says all the surface and sub-surface units of Iran’s Navy are equipped with electronic warfare systems. “The Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has equipped all of
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Iran Releases Video of Captured US Drone
Almost a year to the day when Iran shocked the world by downing an advanced U.S. drone over its airspace, Iran announced the capture of another U.S. drone. This drone, a Boeing ScanEagle, was
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Iran says it captures drone; U.S. denies losing one
Iran said on Tuesday it had captured a U.S. intelligence ScanEagle drone in its airspace over the Gulf in the last few days, but the United States said there was no evidence to support
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NGO Warns Against DARPA Development of Autonomous Synthetic Soldiers
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report entitled “Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots” which warns that autonomous synthetic armed forces lack conscious empathy that human soldiers have and could perform
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Invisible Soldier Caught On Video
A video released by Iraqi insurgents capture a U.S. Soldier who appears out of thin air!!! ran through a couple of different filters…
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Iran unveils ‘indigenous’ drone with 2,000km range
Iran has unveiled what it says is a new "indigenous" long-range unmanned drone capable of flying over most of the Middle East, state media report. The Shahed (Witness) 129 had a range of 2,000km (1,240
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Video: Invisibility Cloaking No Longer Science Fiction
Invisibility cloaking no longer seems to be relegated to the realm of science fiction. It's happening right now in a basement laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin. There are currently several different
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Mind control moves into battle
Now, military scientists are beginning to build technologies that would give every soldier this ability, pushing the field of neuroscience from the lab and on to the battlefield. These devices exploit what neuroscientists call the
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How a team of students HIJACKED a drone in midair – all for a $1,000 bet with U.S. government
One thousand dollars may not seem like a lot of money, but it was enough for a team of researchers from a Texas college to hack into and hijack a drone on a dare
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Obama Gives Hollywood Director Access to Classified Documents to Make Propaganda Film
Earlier this month Obama announced that his raid and subsequent killing of Osama bin Laden was a good enough reason to re-elect him to office this November. Obama claims the U.S. commando raid in which
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