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Did DARPA Just Develop Autonomous Drones To Hunt Humans?
Did DARPA Just Develop Autonomous Drones To Hunt Humans? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) latest creation of the Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program, a new class of algorithms for quick drone navigation in cluttered environments, reminds us of the 2013 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film, Oblivion. Here is a short clip of Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) in the movie, battling […]
China Using Bird Drones To Spy On Border Muslims
China Using Bird Drones To Spy On Border Muslims Over 30 Chinese military and government agencies have been using robotic bird drones to spy on the population – particularly in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region which borders several countries and has a large Muslim population, reports the South China Morning Post. One part of the country […]
Drones, Murder and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: the Cases of Reyaad Khan and Abdul Raqib Amin
Drones, Murder and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: the Cases of Reyaad Khan and Abdul Raqib Amin Photo by Debra Sweet | CC BY 2.0 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is 70 this year. But you wouldn’t know it from the impact it’s had on human lives. For example, Donald […]
New DARPA Program Plans To Patrol Cities With AI Drones
New DARPA Program Plans To Patrol Cities With AI Drones On May 10, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) unveiled the Urban Reconnaissance through Supervised Autonomy (URSA) program, which addresses the issues of reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition within urban environments. The primary objective of the URSA program is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of […]
Bad Drones
Bad Drones Ban drones. Why not? We have succumbed, in recent years, to technological passivity, the assumption that there’s nothing we can (or should) do about what an older generation used to call “progress.” But that’s not true. War goes on, yet most of the world’s nations came together to ban landmines. Mines, humanity decided, […]
Autonomous Drones Will Soon Decide Who To Kill
Autonomous Drones Will Soon Decide Who To Kill The United States Army wants to develop a system that can be quickly integrated and deployed into its weaponized drone fleet to automatically Detect, Recognize, Classify, Identify (DRCI) and target enemy combatants and vehicles using artificial intelligence (AI). This is an impressive leap forward, whereas humans still operate current […]
Israel Deploys Tear-Gas Drones On Gaza Protesters
Israel Deploys Tear-Gas Drones On Gaza Protesters Just last week, we highlighted dramatic new footage showing Israeli forces using a weaponized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) against a Hamas rally in the Gaza Strip, according to the Times of Israel. The UAV is seen flying through the skies above hundreds of protestors, while operators of the aircraft […]
Caught On Camera: Israel Targets Civilians With A Chemical Weapon Drone
Caught On Camera: Israel Targets Civilians With A Chemical Weapon Drone For the first time, Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV released new dramatic footage showing Israeli forces using a weaponized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) against a Hamas rally in the Gaza Strip, according to the Times of Israel. The short video clip published by Al-Mayadeen shows a weaponized […]
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants?
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants? When you tell an establishment Democrat that Google’s hiding and removal of content is a dangerous form of censorship, they often magically transform into Ayn Rand right before your eyes. “It’s a private company and they can do […]
Reflections On “Pushing the Wrong Button” and US Drone Policy
Reflections On “Pushing the Wrong Button” and US Drone Policy A “ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii” notification was caused by an employee who “pushed the wrong button.” Wrong Button ABC News reports an [emergency alert notification] (http://wnep.com/2018/01/13/wrong-button-pushed-during-shift-change-blamed-for-false-hawaii-missile-alert/) sent out on Saturday claiming a “ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii” was a false alarm caused […]
Russia Defends Syrian Military Bases From Massive Drone Attack
Russia Defends Syrian Military Bases From Massive Drone Attack Russian security forces of the Khmeimim air base and Russian Naval CSS point in the city of Tartus ,thwarted a terrorist attack “with massive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through the night of 5th – 6th January 2018,” according to the Russian Ministry of Defence. […]
Pakistan Air Force Ordered To Shoot Down US Military Drones
Pakistan Air Force Ordered To Shoot Down US Military Drones The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has just been ordered to shoot down any foreign drones that violate the country’s airspace including attack drones operated by the United States, Chief Marshal Sohail Aman said on Thursday. The announcement is a complete change from the air force’s previous view, of which […]
LAPD Gets Approval To Unleash Drone Program As Protesters Take To The Streets
LAPD Gets Approval To Unleash Drone Program As Protesters Take To The Streets The LAPD first toyed with the idea of ramping up its public spying safety program with the introduction of drones back in May 2014. At that time, the LAPD announced it had acquired two “unmanned aerial vehicles” as gifts from the Seattle […]
America’s Weapons: “The Dollar and the Drone”
America’s Weapons: “The Dollar and the Drone” It was said that “the guinea and the gallows” were the true instruments of British imperial power. The guinea represented the coined wealth of Great Britain. The gallows represented its… constabulary zeal in policing restless natives. This is the 21st century of course… a time of enlightenment. Today’s […]
