Pentagon: Future of Homemade Bombs Is High-Tech
Most improvised bombs used by insurgents are decidedly low-tech, jury-rigged affairs. A couple of command wires, some fertilizer chemicals and wooden pressure plates in Afghanistan; in Iraq, leftover mines or plastic explosives often detonated remotely by cellphone. But the Pentagon’s bomb squad sees “ever more sophisticated” bombs on the way. The next generations of homemade…
Tech News
Spencer Ackerman
Robots will steal your job, but that’s okay: How to Survive the Coming Economic Collapse
You are about to become obsolete. You think that you are special, unique, and that whatever it is that you are doing is impossible to replace. You are wrong. As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on servers all over the world with one sole purpose: do whatever we…
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Federico Pistono - IEET
