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Sex, Bombs and Burgers: an all-American book
Happy 2012 to everyone! I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable New Year’s, as well as a bit of a break from the daily grind. Things are inevitably going to ramp up this week and next, especially for...
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America’s food is its best military weapon
Today we wrap up the unholy trinity of Sex, Bombs and Burgers – American division, in honour of the book’s U.S. launch – with a look at the food part of the equation. Realistically, I probably should...
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Why the U.S. excels: sex, bombs and burgers
In thinking about Sex, Bombs and Burgers in an American context – which I’ve been doing a lot of lately given its U.S. launch this week – I’ve been reading up on something called “exceptionalism.” It’s...
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Air Force cancels iPad purchase
And just when we thought the Cold War was over… The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has cancelled its purchase order for 2,861 iPad 2 tablets, apparently because the devices were to come...
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Robot legs give paraplegics new hope
It’s not often I get choked up watching a piece of technology being demonstrated, but check out this video of paraplegics testing out a robotic exoskeleton from California-based Ekso Bionics: Ekso has...
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Military robots about to go fully robotic
While the past decade has seen the proliferation of semi-autonomous military robots such as the Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle and the PackBot bomb disposer, there’s always been a human in the loop....
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Israel, war technology and the future of a world
A few months ago, the Centre for Israeli and Jewish Affairs here in Toronto contacted me to ask if I would be interested in being part of a journalist delegation to Israel, to tour the country’s...
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Case for armed robot laws is mounting
Human Rights Watch has released a new report that is pretty much self-explanatory: Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots. In it, the advocacy group argues for a ban on fully autonomous, armed...
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Robots will identify targets better than humans
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how the case for laws governing armed robots is growing. The post was in response to a report issued by Human Rights Watch, which advocated for an outright ban on...
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Tiny robots could fly around no-kill rules
A pair of intriguing-and-potentially-linked robot stories made the news this week, with the first being a United Nations report calling on a moratorium for automated killing machines. The report for...
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Arguments suggest problems with the digital revolution, but little data backs them up. The post Ideacity: the pessimists don’t bring the facts appeared first on .
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