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Smart fabric for soldier uniform
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British soldiers' uniforms could soon use conductive yarn woven directly into clothing to replace cumbersome batteries and cables....
Conductive fabrics may power future infantry gear, uniforms set to enter field trials
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If you thought your Sunbeam electric blanket or those Hello Kitty foot warmers were advanced pieces of kit, then you'd best divert your eyes from this story out of the UK. In an effort to eliminate the mess of power cables and extraneous batteries from a soldier's tech gear,...
Noises off: Will social media change the face of theatre?
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Bloggers battle over the best way to bring theatre to an internet audience – and how to create 'liveness' onlineBrace yourselves. Things are about to take a turn for the meta. Theatre bloggers have been discussing theatre as it exists on the internet. So that's an online writer writing about...
Samsung adds a little Ghost Recon to your 830 series SSD purchase
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Need a bit more incentive to pick up one of those shiny new 830 series solid state drives from Samsung? Great news, storage enthusiast: Sammy's tossing a little Tom Clancy your way. The company will be including a download code for a full copy of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier...
US soldiers to wear blast sensors in Afghanistan, collect shock data
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Starting next month, around one thousand frontline personnel in Afghanistan will begin testing the Soldier Body Unit, a sensor kit for recording the effects of explosions on the human body. While that's not the most pleasant of subjects, the blast sensors have been rushed out to collect as much...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen victim of identity theft
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Paul Allen Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has become the subject of identity theft, with a an AWOL U.S. soldier in Pittsburgh charged with changing the address on a Seattle bank account owned by Allen and attempting to redirect funds to a personal account. Brandon Lee Price changed the address on...
UK top 20 video games chart, week ending 8 June 2012
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The Tom Clancy juggernaut that is Ghost Recon: Future Soldier holds on to the No 1 spotUKIE Games Charts© compiled by GfK Chart-TrackGamesPS3PlayStationXboxWii3DSPS Vitaguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions...
Buy a Samsung 820 SSD, get Ghost Recon Future Soldier for free
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Samsung announces a new deal that bundles a downloadable version of the Ghost Recon: Future Soldier game for free with a Samsung 820 series SSD 128GB or larger. [Read more]...
Pinterest's Latest Newcomer: U.S. Central Command
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Pinterest may have been a den of cupcakes and wedding dresses at some point, but that's rapidly changing as everyone and her brother tries to get in on the ground floor of the hot social network. The latest evidence? U.S. Central Command, which is the military command in the Middle...
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier - video
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Go into camouflage mode and stake out the latest trailer from Ubisoft's strategic military shooter, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Showing three sections from the game's co-op campaign, this is another tantalising glimpse at a game that promises to revolutionalise the Ghost Recon recipe of highly tactical combat and globe-trotting anti-terror...
Video: Honor and family, not just guns and gore, power Medal of Honor Warfighter
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It starts not with an explosion, or a bullet, or violence of any kind, but with a woman's voice; a worried voice; a wife's voice. Medal of Honor Warfighter is a game of modern warfare told against a backdrop of globe-trotting terrorism. But when presenting this military shooter to...
Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon comes to Facebook [video]
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Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, is filled with a large selection of social and casual games, such as Draw Something, Words With Friends and FarmVille. While the topic of Facebook gaming is widely discussed, there isn’t much there in the way of titles that would attract the...
BAE Systems designs hard composite solar cells: could act as structure of UAVs, piece of soldier's gear
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BAE Systems revealed that it's working on hardy, high-capacity solar cells that could power unmanned vehicles and even attach to an individual soldier's gear. According to Darren Buckle, a manager from BAE Systems' Advanced Technology Center, the cells are geared toward smaller, often airborne, military units, where weight is...
BAE Systems designs hard composite solar cells: could act as structure of UAVs, piece of soldier's gear
Online Flashmob Platform Mobber Suspended From Twitter API For Promoted Trends Copycat
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Mobber, a platform that rewards users for distributing promoted content through their social media accounts, has been suspended from using Twitter’s API. Mobber, which launched in June, is intended for companies and musicians who “want to BLAST something into the social media world.” A brand can start a “mob,” set...
'Medal of Honor Warfighter' multiplayer is more cooperative, morally confusing
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You hear this line repeated at every Medal of Honor demo. "Medal of Honor has always been about authenticity and respect for the soldier." This presentation, in a stuffy booth on the side of EA's E3 compound on the Los Angeles Convention Center show floor, we're hearing it from...
Become a hero and build a town in Rule the Kingdom
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Rule the Kingdom is a new free-to-play title for Android devices from the increasingly-prolific publisher Game Insight. The new title, developed by InnoWate, is a hybrid title that combines elements of citybuilding games and traditional role-playing titles. Hybrid games like this have been attempted by a number of different publishers...
The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!
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Brian's off in Beantown, so Heater fans are bound to be disappointed in this week's episode. But, fear not: Tim's home from WWDC and feeling a bit jetlagged, and so is Darren Murph, but both will soldier with support from Richard Lawler for this week's podcast. Join them all...
DARPA's 'Avatar project' aims to give soldiers surrogate robots, make James Cameron proud
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In a fevered mash up of blockbuster films directed by James Cameron, DARPA is looking to put soldier controlled bi-pedal robots on the battlefield. Think Terminator meets Avatar. The agency has set aside $7 million of it's $2.8 billion 2012 budget to develop an "Avatar program" that will "develop...
Google Zerg Rush: That was an order, soldier
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Zerg Rush is Google's latest easter egg and it's admittedly a little late for the holiday itself. Search for the term (it's a Starcraft 2 thing), and you'll be welcomed by a point-and-shoot mini-game where your enemy is an infinite number of color-coded, marauding o's. These will proceed to...
Army Warns Of Danger Of Geotagging
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While for an ordinary civilian the automatic geotagging of your photos or check-ins might be convenient, in the military it can be a lethal mistake. In 2007, geotagged photos of a new fleet of helicopters allowed enemy forces to mortar the base and destroy several of them; it could just...
Wife learns of soldier husband's death via Facebook
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Ariell Taylor-Brown was on Skype with her husband. A few hours later, she gets a Facebook message from a soldier in her husband's platoon asking her to call. [Read more]...
UK top 20 video games chart, week ending 26 May 2012
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The Tom Clancy juggernaut rolls in with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and smashes all comers before itUKIE Games Charts© compiled by GfK Chart-TrackGamesXboxPS3PlayStationWiiDS3DSPCguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions |...
Samsung reveals special edition London Olympics Galaxy S III package in Taiwan
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Samsung's really getting into its partnership with the 2012 Summer Olympics, announcing a special edition Galaxy S III package in Taiwan to go along with the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Y variants availabe through UK carrier O2. As shown by ePrice, the phone will include a stylized British flag...
DARPA's 'Avatar' project will put $7 million into robot surrogates
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, may have the keenest sense of irony we've ever seen. The 2013 proposed budget includes $7 million to fund the so-called "Avatar" project, which would "develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal...
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier – review
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Xbox 360, PS3, Ubisoft, cert: 15Offering a speculative look at near-future military operations, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier aims to re-energise the long-running Ghost Recon series with the barest hint of sci-fi. As far as tone goes, it's a success – an arsenal built upon current developments in combat...
Taliban release video of captive US soldier (Full Version): http://bit.ly/azPCZS #digg #digguser #afghanistan #bergdahl
How A Blind Soldier Can Read and See Through His Tongue
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Israeli military 'unfriends' soldier after Facebook leak
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The Israeli military cancels a raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook....
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