By C. Clay Whittaker
March 18, 2016 - China has a new strategy in fighting crime, ripped from science fiction and hastily pasted at the top of the list of paranoia-inducing concepts.
It’s called pre-crime. It goes further than sting operations, counterterrorism, or any other government action to preempt criminal activity ever has before.
High over Alaska last summer, The Pentagon experimented with new, secret prototypes: micro-drones that can be launched from the flare dispensers of moving F-16s and F/A-18 fighter jets. Canisters containing the tiny aircraft descended from the jets on parachutes before breaking open, allowing wings on each drone to swing out and catch the wind. Inch-wide propellers on the back provided propulsion as they found one another and created a swarm. Do you feel safer knowing about these, or do you believe they may be used to further spy on Amerikans?
Echo Voyager, Boeing’s latest unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), can operate autonomously for months at a time thanks to a hybrid rechargeable power system and modular payload bay. The 51-foot-long vehicle is the latest innovation in Boeing’s UUV family, joining the 32-foot Echo Seeker and the 18-foot Echo Ranger.
Russia claims that it could beat the rest of the world to Mars after the country’s space agency revealed it is working on a spaceship that would get them to the Red Planet in just six weeks, much faster than anything the Fascist Police States of Amerika can do.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (PNN) - March 8, 2016 - Computers are getting pretty good at predicting the future. In many cases they do it better than people. That’s why Amazon uses them to figure out what you’re likely to buy, how Netflix knows what you might want to watch, the way meteorologists come up with accurate 10-day forecasts.
MALIBU, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 1, 2016 - Anyone who has ever watched a sci-fi film and wished they could upload information to their brain in seconds could be in luck. Scientists have developed a way of amplifying learning in a way that almost mimics the methods used in The Matrix.
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (PNN) - February 18, 2016 - Killer robots that can execute without human intervention will become a reality within years unless there is a global agreement to ban them, warns a leading scientist.
SYDNEY, Australia (PNN) - February 9, 2016 - Scientists in Australia have developed a “bionic spine” which could enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again by controlling a tiny paper clip-sized device implanted in the brain.
The device, to be implanted in three paraplegic patients in Melbourne next year, allows patients left paralyzed by injury or illness to subconsciously control equipment that can move robotic limbs.
LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - January 30, 2016 - During a panel talk about the ins-and-outs of filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival, director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World), who will be directing Star Wars: Episode IX, teased an idea he's working on for his Star Wars movie: shooting in space.
He says to spread out into space to avoid Earth disaster.
LONDON, England (PNN) - January 21, 2016 - Humanity’s future is in peril thanks to so-called advancements in science and technology, claims Professor Stephen Hawking, who cited “nuclear war, global warming, and genetically-modified viruses” as deadly threats to our existence.
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