Los Angeles To Use Drones For Extreme Threats, NOT Public Surveillance, Sheriff Claims
By Nicholas West Since the first known deployment of a domestic drone to aid in police work made headline news in 2011, civil liberties advocates…
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Researchers Developing Smartphone Mental Health Surveillance App For University Students: iSee
By Nicholas West Predictive technology is exploding across the virtual landscape. The arrival of Big Data initiatives by government, as well as a massive industry…
European Parliament Calls For “Kill Switches” To Stop Killer Robots
By Nicholas West The rise of automation in nearly every sector is accelerating at an exponential pace. Running in tandem with the developments is an…
3D Printed Drone Swarms Could Give U.S. Army On-Demand Eyes In The Sky
By Nicholas West As further proof that technology is indeed a double-edged sword, the U.S. Army is seeking to utilize the wonder of 3D printing…
Watch Pentagon’s Successful Test Of Drone Swarm “Cloud” In California Skies
By Nicholas West Once considered a conspiracy theory, the use of drones has rapidly become open knowledge as part of warfare and surveillance, domestically and…
Pentagon Wants DARPA Tech To Convert Military Aircraft To Drones
By Nicholas West As the acceleration of automated technology continues to transform the economy by outsourcing humans to robots, the military continues along the same…
U.S. To Build A “Weaponized Narrative” Into The Future of War
By Nicholas West A new project has been announced by Arizona State University’s Center on the Future of War and think tank New America. This…
World’s Largest Electronics Manufacturer Accelerates Plan To Replace Humans With Robots
By Nicholas West Foxconn might not be a company that is at the forefront of most American minds, but the products they create most certainly…
Drones Set To Replace Security Guards As Patrol Of The Future
By Nicholas West Yesterday, I covered an announcement by the U.S. Navy that they are planning to enhance the swarm capabilities of their drone patrol…
U.S. Navy Upgrades Drone Boats to Direct Swarm Attacks Without Human Input
By Nicholas West The world recently watched with bated breath as China captured a U.S. submarine drone in the hotly contested area of The South…
China Seizes U.S. Submarine Drone In Disputed Territory Of The South China Sea (UPDATED)
By Nicholas West An ongoing territorial dispute in the South China Sea over a stretch that comprises more than 750 reefs, banks, and shoals known…
Pentagon Plans to Invest Billions in Undersea Drone Network
By Nicholas West Despite ongoing evidence of colossal economic waste and manifest ineptitude by the Pentagon’s network of defense contractors, it isn’t stopping their commitment…
U.S. Navy Buys $800K Per-Round Projectiles For Its $4 Billion Warship
By Nicholas West Back in May I reported on the latest boondoggle in development by the military-industrial complex: the USS Zumwalt. It is staggering even…
China’s Airport Security Robot Can Deliver Electroshocks
By Nicholas West While debate surrounds the threat of autonomous “killer robots,” the mechanized replacement of humans continues across the workforce. The industrial robotics industry is…