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The US Army will test armored robotic vehicles in 2020
France’s Air Force is getting a space command
The killer-alligator movie Crawl is a solid antidote for a summer of big franchise blockbusters
A Chinese AI startup is tracking lost dogs using their nose prints
As US counties update their voting machines, many run on outdated software
9 new trailers you should watch this week
Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron is a thrilling examination of the cost of war
Jeffrey Epstein liked palling around with scientists — what do they think now?

The US Army will test armored robotic vehicles in 2020

Posted: 13 Jul 2019 01:30 PM PDT

The US Army says that it will conduct live-fire tests of a new Robotic Combat Vehicle next year. While the tests won't involve vehicles ultimately slated to go into combat, they will be used to show off various technologies that may later be incorporated into platforms in the future, and how soldiers might eventually utilize them on the battlefield.

The RCVs are built on an M113 armored personnel carrier, and will be controlled by soldiers in a vehicle called the Mission Enabler Technologies-Demonstrators (MET-Ds), an upgraded Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The MET-Ds will be equipped with cameras and a remote turret, which crew members will control with touchscreen panels.

The first phase of testing will begin next March at Fort Carson in...

France’s Air Force is getting a space command

Posted: 13 Jul 2019 11:59 AM PDT

Ahead of this weekend's Bastille Day celebration on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a space command that would be part of the country's Air Force, according to Reuters.

President Macron made the remarks to military personnel, saying that the space command would be responsible for defending the country's satellites, and that it would officially be created in September. The Air Force, he says, will eventually be renamed as Space and Air Force. It appears as though this new command will replace France's existing Joint Space Command, which is already responsible for France's existing space assets, and coordinating with the militaries of other European nations.

While it has the third-oldest space agency,...

The killer-alligator movie Crawl is a solid antidote for a summer of big franchise blockbusters

Posted: 13 Jul 2019 11:30 AM PDT

As the line between film and television continues to blur, big-screen movies are still supposed to flaunt their scope. In a summer where plenty of would-be blockbusters are withering at the box office, and plenty of potential moviegoers seem to be staying home to watch Stranger Things, size and scale remain selling points for the theatrical experience. Avengers: Endgame hops around planets and time-streams. Men in Black: International zips between continents like a James Bond picture. Even your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man takes a whirlwind tour of Europe.

Some of these big-scope adventures do deliver the requisite cinematic thrills. But as plenty of blockbusters deflate into disappointment, a different sort of summer movie has been...

A Chinese AI startup is tracking lost dogs using their nose prints

Posted: 13 Jul 2019 11:00 AM PDT

Megvii, a Chinese AI startup that supplies facial recognition software for the Chinese government's surveillance program, is expanding its technology beyond humans to recognize different faces of pets. As reported by Abacus News, Megvii's new program is trained to recognize dogs by their nose prints — much like how humans have unique fingerprints.

Using the Megvii app, the company says it can register your dog simply by scanning the snout through your phone's camera. Just like how a phone registers your fingerprint for biometric unlocks, the app asks you to take photos of your dog's nose from multiple angles. Megvii says it has an accuracy rate of 95 percent and has reunited 15,000 pets with their owners through the app.

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As US counties update their voting machines, many run on outdated software

Posted: 13 Jul 2019 09:10 AM PDT

Following the 2016 presidential election, states like Pennsylvania indicated that they would be working to upgrade their voting machines to allay security concerns. A new report from the Associate Press reveals that while counties across the United States have purchased new equipment, many of machines are running outdated software that could still be vulnerable to hackers.

At the heart of the issue is the operating system that the machines run on — Windows 7. Microsoft released the operating system between 2009 and 2014, and it's since been overtaken by Windows 10. The company has scaled back its support for the OS, and will officially end support for it next January.

9 new trailers you should watch this week

Posted: 13 Jul 2019 09:00 AM PDT

Like, I suspect, a good number of you, I spent last weekend rushing through season 3 of Stranger Things to make sure nothing was spoiled when I went online. It was a great season — the show did an admirable job balancing three-ish separate but related plot lines, and I loved how much wackiness it was able to bring to the series while still being able to slip into much more serious modes when it needed to. Seriously, we need the Steve and Robin spinoff ASAP.

But Stranger Things is also one of those shows that makes me question whether Netflix's "release everything at once" strategy is really the best way to go. We could still be talking about episode 1 right now, analyzing where the series is going and what it's exploring while our...

Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron is a thrilling examination of the cost of war

Posted: 13 Jul 2019 07:00 AM PDT

When I was in high school, I read through the entire back catalog of Star Wars novels, one after the other, and finished with Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston's X-Wing series. I loved that nine-book sub-series. It presented a different angle on the Star Wars universe, following a new crop of non-film characters as they worked to take the galaxy back from the Empire.

Fast-forward a quarter of a century, and the finale of a new Star Wars trilogy is about to hit theaters. There's a standalone film that lines up perfectly with the spirit of the X-Wing series. And now, there's a new novel about another squadron of Rebel pilots taking the galaxy back — Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed. Star Wars has grown up in the last two decades,...

Jeffrey Epstein liked palling around with scientists — what do they think now?

Posted: 13 Jul 2019 06:00 AM PDT