Osama bin Laden

Forensics, Biometrics and Classified Technologies Helped Track Bin Laden in His Compound

The National Review has sources telling them that the Joint Special Operations Command used forensics training, biometric analysis and NSA/CIA resources to help commandos survey, locate and kill Osama Bin Laden inside his secret Pakistan compound. While many of the technologies used are highly classified, it’s believed that the combination of training, equipment and real-time…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 2

President Obama Reportedly Watched the bin Laden Raid Live

So this is something: according to one of Business Insider’s sources, Barack Obama watched the entire raid of Osama Bin Laden’s compound live via a helmet cam feed. Badass. Helmet cam feeds of military ops have actually become fairly standard practice these days; as The Atlantic points out, videos of live combat footage like the…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 2

This Recreation of Osama’s Killing Is Outrageously Insensitive, Totally NSFW and Absurdly Hilarious

Call me insensitive for finding this video funny if you want. Heck, you can call me an asshole too. Whatever. I don’t care, because the only way this video could be any better is if it were real footage instead of a 3D dramatization from Taiwan. To check out our full coverage on the successful…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 2

Meet ‘SEAL Team 6’, The Bad-Asses Who Killed Osama bin Laden

The military team that killed Osama Bin Laden is an elite special forces group unofficially called SEAL Team 6. Officially, the team’s name is classified and not available to the public, technically there is no team 6. A Tier-One counter-terrorism force similar to the Army’s elusive Delta group, Team 6’s mission rarely make it to…

Tech News Robert W. Johnson - Business Insider May 2

How Osama bin Laden Was Brought to Justice

The Navy SEALs’ Booty Was Yesterday’s Biggest Victory The most important achievement of yesterday’s operation wasn’t killing Osama. It was the US Navy SEALs’ booty: dozens of computers, memory sticks and disks loaded with information that might just crush all of al Qaeda’s network. More » https://gizmodo.com/how-osama-bin-laden-was-brought-to-justice-5797620 Here’s the Latest on the Osama bin Laden Kill…

Tech News Kyle Wagner May 2

Inside Osama’s “Kill Site”

It’s grainy and looks like it might have been shot on a cell phone, but ABC’s got their hands on video from inside the house where Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. It’s about what you’d expect, destroyed and blood-soaked. This image was lost some time after publication. ABC News also notes several computers were…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 2

How Osama bin Laden Was Found

In this age of GPS signals, Foursquare check-ins, and iPhone tracking, how did America’s most-wanted man, Osama bin Laden, stay hidden for almost a decade? A better question would ask how he was found, for that is the reason the world is rejoicing today. https://gizmodo.com/why-your-iphone-is-secretly-tracking-you-a-very-probab-5794457 Despite hiding in plain sight of a police station and…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford May 2

Someone Live-Tweeted the Osama bin Laden Raid Without Knowing It

How does someone unknowingly live-tweet the biggest news story of the weekend (sorry royal wedding), if not the decade? @ReallyVirtual knows. The IT consultant was just “taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops,” when he heard a helicopter, then a “huge window shaking bang,” and then the helicopter…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 2

This Was Osama’s Hideout on Google Maps

Osama bin Laden’s dead. But before we offed him, he was camped out in a Pakistani mansion—and in typical internet fashion, it’s already pinpointed on Google. The mapper’s anonymous, but they reveal strange things—police station neighbors? https://jalopnik.com/confirmed-osama-bin-laden-is-dead-5797528 Head here for a look at the compound after the raid. [The Atlantic] https://gizmodo.com/inside-osamas-kill-site-5797645 To check out our…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 2

British Airways Ad Implies Osama Bin Laden Is A Frequent Flyer

Recently, British Airways advertised and discussed its downloadable, paperless boarding passes in an internal staff magazine called LHR News. There was something odd though: The sample boarding pass pictured in the magazine is issued to Mr. Osama Bin Laden. The airline said that it’s looking into how this “mistake” occurred, so I guess that means…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 2

Sugar-Powered Batteries: Hello to iPod and Frosties, Goodbye to Osama?

After long nights in the lab, probably fuelled by gallons of coke, researchers at Missouri’s University of Saint Louis have come up with a sugar-powered fuel cell. The battery, that runs on anything from soft drinks to tree sap, has the potential to run up to four times as long on a single charge than…

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Forensics, Biometrics and Classified Technologies Helped Track Bin Laden in His Compound

President Obama Reportedly Watched the bin Laden Raid Live

This Recreation of Osama’s Killing Is Outrageously Insensitive, Totally NSFW and Absurdly Hilarious

Meet ‘SEAL Team 6’, The Bad-Asses Who Killed Osama bin Laden

How Osama bin Laden Was Brought to Justice

Inside Osama’s “Kill Site”

How Osama bin Laden Was Found

Someone Live-Tweeted the Osama bin Laden Raid Without Knowing It

This Was Osama’s Hideout on Google Maps

British Airways Ad Implies Osama Bin Laden Is A Frequent Flyer

Sugar-Powered Batteries: Hello to iPod and Frosties, Goodbye to Osama?

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