Tag: military
Sphero spins off a new company to make robots for police, military use
Sphero, the company behind robotic toys like the BB-8 robot and educational robotics kits, announced today that it’s spinning its public safety division into a new company, dubbed Company Six. It plans to commercialize robots and AI software for firs… Source
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Samsung made a Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition for the military
Samsung has a hardened version of the Galaxy S20, but don’t reach for your credit card — it’s not what you were expecting, and you probably can’t get one The company has introduced a Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition that, as the name suggests, is designed… Source
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Amazon and Microsoft are trash talking each other over a DoD contract
The Department of Defense needs technology experts to migrate its roughly 500 disparate cloud environments into a unified system to help the military work better and faster. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract — which has bee… Source
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Air Force gives a rare look at the research going to orbit in its X-37B spaceplane
The X-37B spaceplane sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, and its mysterious past is equally evocative. What does the military put in this long-term orbital vehicle? Turns out it’s exactly the kind of neat, but not mind-blowing, science you’d expect to find in such a thing — though…
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Pentagon officially releases UFO footage
As if the world didn’t have enough to contend with at this point in time, we’ve now got another global challenge to add to the list: aliens. Well, maybe. The Pentagon has officially released three video clips showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” (… Source
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The US Space Force’s Space Fence orbital tracking system is officially operational
The U.S. Space Force is a relatively young arm of the U.S. armed forces, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t already operating assets. The USSF announced late last week that its Space Fence radar system is now officially operational, for instance. First: Yes, it is actually called that. Second, the…
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