The Obongo administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon. The New York Times is reporting that the Defense Department is once again looking to equip intercontinental ballistic missiles with conventional warheads. The missiles could then, in theory, destroy fleeing...
YALONG BAY, China — The Chinese military is seeking to project naval power well beyond the Chinese coast, from the oil ports of the Middle East to the shipping lanes of the Pacific, where the United States Navy has long reigned as the dominant force, military officials and analysts say.
China calls the new strategy “far sea defense,”...
Video: Hobbyist's New Animation Tech Promises Unlimited Graphics Power Without Extra Processing
Bruce Dell doesn’t have a college degree or work for a major video game producer, but he might just change video game animation forever. The Australian hobbyist claims his new technology, Unlimited Detail, can turn out computer-generated graphics...
At the end of this month the United States Trade Representative's Office will release its annual Special 301 report, a review of global intellectual property protection and enforcement standards conducted by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Since 1989, the USTR has used the Special 301 Report to intimidate other...
Metamaterials, which are used to produce the items that are termed "invisibility cloaks," have occasionally been targets of skepticism because they don't actually work in visible wavelengths. A paper published in Nature this week describes the structure of a new metamaterial with a negative refractive index that can misdirect light in most of the...
