drones

Meta’s entry into the world of military technology took a dramatic leap forward with its recent partnership with Anduril Industries, a Silicon Valley company known as much for disruptive innovation as for its unease-inducing arsenal of autonomous defense solutions. This collaboration, confirmed...

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I'm using a custom 6 channel ANALOG USB Joystick. That is, it has three "joyticks", none of which are buttons. The first 4 channels work fine. But the last two channels do not work properly. The Channels I'm using are "named" Rz, Y, Z, X, Slider2, Slider1. The Slider 1 and Slider 2...

Can you chemically "grow" a military drone? It sounds like an idea for a science fiction film, but here in the UK scientists and engineers are spending time and money to see if they can do exactly that. British warplanes are already flying with parts made from a 3D printer. Researchers are...

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Drones! It's been like forever since we've highlighted drones here, so when I saw this and that Shahed Chowdhuri not only used an Xbox Controller but also Windows 10, well heck, there's no way I could pass that up! Flying a Drone with Windows 10 and an Xbox Controller ... Introduction I...

Link Removed, a new set of products that create smooth, stabilized time lapses from first-person videos. Microsoft’s hyperlapse technology is built on more than Link Removed. For consumers, Link Removed turns any long video – from a bumpy bicycle ride to a family stroll in the park – into a...

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Last week we had our Kinect launch with a special Channel 9 Live event. Just prior to this we held a 24 hour Code Camp to allow developers to play with the Kinect SDK for 24 hours and see what they could come up with. I interviewed the teams after the event to take a look at their project and...

The biggest news out of President Obama’s Afghanistan speech isn’t the 10,000 troops he’s withdrawing by the end of the year. He wont send the remaining "surge" troops into the worst part of eastern Afganistan. He also says will will withdrawl another 23,000 tropps bt the end of next year. He...

In the daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Navy Seals were likely outfitted with latest in high-tech weapons and gadgets; Fox News speculates on five key technologies that could have helped the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team 6 successfully complete their mission including bomb...

No U.S. operatives were hurt or killed in the dramatic, early-morning raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in his northern Pakistan hideout. At least, none that we know about here at 1:50 a.m. Monday, EDT. But there may have been casualties among American allies, according to...

'I need to sleep but Osama had to pick this day to die' A bloke called Sohaib Athar has become a twitter celebrity having unknowingly twittered the raid that looks to have finally taken out Osama bin Laden. Athar, who tweets under the name @ReallyVirtual, was peering out of his window, laptop...

More than 40 people were killed in Pakistan last week in a US drone attack near the Afghan border. The use of unmanned drones have always been controversial, but ex-CIA director Michael Hayden says they are winning the war. Ten years on from 9/11, al-Qaeda appears to be on the back foot. One...

"Not evil" Google fed up with street view, takes to the skies? Google, the company that has been spotted having talks with the CIA but is not evil and definitely has no agenda, and definitely does not have armed patrols around HQ in GoogleWagons, is starting to invest in relatively...