End Zone to War Zone: Pentagon Wants NFL Tech for Battlefield Replays
The Pentagon’s cribbing a play from Monday Night Football, adopting the same instant-replay technology used during games to improve analysis of war-zone video feeds. Harris Corporation, the company behind instant replay for professional football and baseball games, has teamed up with the military on an analysis system that’s already been deployed to several bases, reports…
Lawyers Claim Google Wi-Fi Sniffing ‘Is Not an Accident’
Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, despite claims to the contrary. “At this point, it is our belief that it is not an accident,” said Brooks Cooper, an Oregon attorney suing Google…
DNA Logic Gates Could Bring Injectable Biocomputers
DNA-based logic gates that could carry out calculations inside the body have been constructed for the first time. The work brings the prospect of injectable biocomputers programmed to target diseases as they arise. “The biocomputer would sense biomarkers and immediately react by releasing counter-agents for the disease,” says Itamar Willner of the Hebrew University of…
Everything Wrong With The Steve Ballmer Era On Display At D8
Today at the All Things D conference we saw a snapshot of what’s wrong with Microsoft under Steve Ballmer’s tenure. Walt Mossberg asked Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, what they thought of Google, Android, and Chrome. Ballmer yammered away about how Google’s strategy of having two operating systems doesn’t make any…
