Failing again. Failing better.
Ever since the image below starting buzzing around the internet, people have been using Google Earth to see what else China has built in the Gobi desert. The folks at Wired’s Danger Room have collected a set of structures. Theories as to what they are run the gamut from satellite calibration tools, to bomb testing…
Today, Wired’s Danger Room posted an article about “loose geeks.” I think most people are at least familiar with the concept of loose nukes. “Loose geeks” refers to the related (but perhaps less well known) problem of how to prevent all the nuclear engineers, machinists, physicists, etc. from selling their services to unsavory regimes or…
Wired’s Danger Room blog recently posted an article about the U.S. Air Force’s “Micro Aviary” at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. There, the USAF has equipped a room with very sensitive motion-tracking sensors capable of tracking drones within a tenth of an inch. Researchers are using this capability to build and test micro drones…
Sorry, folks. Things are pretty busy at work, so I don’t know if I’ll be able to post much today. But you know how I hate to leave you empty handed. So here are two interesting links. The first is a piece from io9.com talking about how “Woman in White” ghost stories can be found…
Today the news is filled with images of Apple devotees standing in line for hours waiting to get their hands on the new iPhone 4S. One of the key features they are excited about is Siri, the iPhone’s virtual assistant. What many people don’t know is that Siri began in the labs of DARPA (the…