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Louise Mensch 'troll' sentenced over threatening email
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Frank Zimmerman given suspended jail sentence and banned from contacting list of celebrities, including Lord SugarAn internet "troll" who sent a threatening email to a Conservative MP has been banned from contacting a host of celebrities, including Lord Sugar.A district judge sentenced Frank Zimmerman to 26 weeks in prison, suspended...
Here's The US Army's Guide To Pinterest
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Pinterest is the tremendously successful social pinboard site taking the internet by storm. It's a big enough deal that the US Army is took notice and assembled an explanatory deck on it, which we found via All Things D. Whether you have no idea what Pinterest is and could use...
New research brings better wireless to remote locations, 80 percent faster GoT downloads
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Not getting the bandwidth you need, Heidi? Then maybe the folks at North Carolina State University can help. They've figured out a way to boost multi-hop networks, where data is forwarded across two or more nodes (hops) in order to reach far-flung users. Networks like this can often get...
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...
300-foot-long US Army airship takes successful first flight in New Jersey
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The US Army has just completed the first test flight for its Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle — a massive airship designed for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance. The LEMV took to the air for 90 minutes on Tuesday, taking off from a military base in New Jersey, and according to...
After 16 years in R&D, soldiers finally get ready to take Android phones into battle
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The US Army is finally getting ready to deploy hundreds of Motorola Atrix smartphones as part of a secure battlefield communication system, according to a report from Wired. Known as the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), the network is the culmination of 16 years of research and development, and is...
Jack Tramiel
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The father of the best-selling Commodore 64 personal computerJack Tramiel, who has died aged 83, will be remembered as the father of the Commodore 64, which dominated the home computer market of the 1980s. It shipped more than 20m units – an astonishing number at the time – and was...
Spec Ops: The Line – review
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PC/PS3/Xbox 360; £39.99; cert 18+; Yager/2K GamesDavid Kushner's biography on id Software quotes John Carmack positing the idea that stories in video games are like stories in porn films – they're expected to be there, but they're not that important.If ever there was a video game that stands in resolute...
$99 DIY kit overclocks your brain [video]
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Just as a processor can be overclocked by running an increased amount of electrical current through it, the human brain can also be made to process data faster using electrical charges. According to Benjamin Syzek, a Ph.D neuroscience student at Michigan State University, transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) is...
US military using lightweight mini-drones launched from battlefield
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Switchblade 'loitering munition' weighing under six pounds can be carried in a backpack and used in place of an air strikeThe US military has issued soldiers in Afghanistan with a new class of lightweight unmanned drone known as the Switchblade, which can be carried in a backpack and used on...
US army plans lightning laser gun
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A weapon capable of firing a lightning bolt at a target is being developed by the US Army....
US Army turns to Pinterest and social media to engage with a broader audience
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Social sharing service Pinterest may have had to deal with some pesky copyright questions lately, but that isn't stopping adoption of the service — even by the US military. The Atlantic Wire took a recent look at the social media operation of the US Army, which includes a heavy...
US Army investigates unmanned helicopters for search and rescue
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The US Army is considering deploying unmanned helicopters to find and rescue wounded troops from dangerous spots on the battlefield, according to a report from Wired. The article cites a request for proposals from the Army's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which encourages businesses to "investigate, propose and...
US Department of Defense approves BlackBerry 7 devices for agency usage
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While RIM will likely continue to be on shaky ground in the consumer space during the company's transition to BlackBerry 10, it just got a vote of confidence from one of its biggest clients. The US Army and the Defense Information Systems Agency have tested BlackBerry 7 and given...
Contractor awarded $21.4 million to secure Android
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Fairfax, Va. contractor Invincea, known for malware detection and network security, has been awarded a $21.4 million contract to find a way to secure Android. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) sought development teams to secure the smartphone and tablet OS for...
US Air Force cancels iPad purchase plans, reportedly over GoodReader security fears
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Back in December the US Air Force announced plans to buy 2,861 iPads as part of its transition away from using paper for flight books, but now the deal is off. The plan posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website has been updated with a note indicating its cancellation....
Army nurse who died during Skype chat with wife not shot, investigation finds
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Captain Bruce Clark's wife had stated she saw a bullet hole behind her husband, but army found no signs of traumaMilitary investigators have sought to defuse a controversy swirling around the sudden death of a US soldier in Afghanistan after his wife, who had been video chatting with him via...
Raytheon wins $4.7m contract to develop wearable tablet for helicopter pilots
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Defense contractor Raytheon has won $4.7 million from the US Government to develop a new wrist-mounted touchscreen computer, helping helicopter pilots maintain "situational awareness" both inside and outside the cockpit. According to an explanatory video, the device — a dummy of which is shown in the image above —...
US government and military to adopt custom Android phones, says CNN
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CNN is reporting that the US government expects to adopt a custom Android platform for the military, and some federal agencies and federal contractors — a move that will give Google a foothold in federal territory that RIM has clutched decidedly for years. The news isn't a total surprise:...
US Army issues Facebook warning
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Photos posted on social media sites like Facebook that are geotagged - marked with a location - put soldiers and their families in danger the US Army warns....
US Army debuts app marketplace prototype: iOS first, Android coming soon
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The promise of an Army app store has been bandied about for quite a while now, but it looks like it's slowly becoming a reality. The US Army has today officially announced a prototype of the Army Software Marketplace, a web-based app store that currently includes twelve different training...
Researchers find vulnerability in Chinese chips used by US army
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A team of researchers from Cambridge University say they have found evidence that a Chinese-manufactured chip used by US armed forces contains a secret access point that leaves it vulnerable to third party tampering. The researchers tested an unspecified US military chip — used in weapons, nuclear power plants to public...
Hoo-ah: How the US Army Has Become a Social Media Leader
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Over the past several years, the US Army has developed an exemplary program in exploiting numerous social media methods, and done so without a lot of flash, expense, or personnel. They have an engaged audience, numerous followers, and maintained a multi-pronged campaign into all of the major social media networks,...
Save Helpless Faraway Africans From The Comfort Of Your Armchair!
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Wow. I never dreamed that I’d have a legitimate excuse to write a TechCrunch post about Joseph Kony, the crazed Ugandan warlord whose Lord’s Resistance Army has been a pet obsession of mine for some years now. The first draft of my thriller set mostly in Uganda and the Congo...
Here comes Skynet: Army drones almost ready to share sky with airlines
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The MQ-1C Gray Eagle—coming to skies near you. On July 5, the US Army announced it had completed a two-week demonstration of a new ground-based sensor system for its MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system that will allow UAS operators to detect and avoid other aircraft. The Army is...
Android Army: US soldiers to leverage portable battlefield network and smartphones
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Smartphones: the future of wartime communication? That is the goal of the US Army through the development of its portable wireless network, dubbed Warfighter Information Network-Tactical or WIN-T. The Army hopes to leverage WIN-T to bring near-instant digital communication to the battlefield by outfitting soldiers with Motorola Atrix handsets...
Amazing: Father and son who have never met are reunited over Google+ Hangout
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Here’s an absolutely amazing story of a man who was reunited with his son in an interesting series of events facilitated by some caring people and the power of the Internet. Here’s the story: Seven months ago, +James Worley ran across a homeless guy named Ron Paul Burden, a US...
Army seeking proposals for casualty-carrying UAVs
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Combat is a grizzly business, and despite the best efforts of medical evacuation crews, it's not always feasible to send rescue teams into the fray. The US Army is seeking to address this with "autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)" (read: drones) for dropping off...
US Army warns soldiers on the dangers of smartphone geotagging
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Location-based apps are all the rage these days: "check in" services are becoming more and more popular, your photos can be easily geotagged, and that's not even to mention a little scandal Apple dealt with last year regarding exactly how much location information the iPhone stores. While this trend...
Flickr Is Fighting Copyright Theft On Pinterest
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It's come up before that Pinterest might be enabling massive copyright theft, and now photo-sharing site Flickr is intervening by disabling Pinterest pins on all copyrighted images, reports VentureBeat. Flickr is the third largest source of all pinned material on the site, and with a newly added tag to...
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