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When AI Becomes a Self-Improving Strategic Asset The Battlefield That Exists Only in Code Imagine a commander who never ...
Navy laser wireless power beaming proved dual-purpose in a June 2026 field test: a single directed-energy platform beamed ...
Elon Musk describes Cybertruck as 'alien-level technology' Elon Musk described the Tesla Cybertruck as “alien-level technology,” highlighting its combination of massive size, rapid acceleration, and ...
Pulverised technology from collapsed alien civilisations may lie scattered across the solar system, including on the Moon, a new study suggests. The likelihood of advanced aliens living at the same ...
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has announced that it has codified and authorized 1,000 samples of weapons and military equipment since the start of 2026. It's a 50% increase from the 659 samples ...
The AI giant won’t allow the military to use its technology for autonomous weapons. That’s a good step. But it’s not enough. Michael Brown is CEO of Public Purpose Strategies, which helps social ...
“Disclosure” has become a cult word. It shouldn’t be, since all it means, technically, is to reveal something. But the new wave of alien conspiracy theorists have made “disclosure” into a teasingly ...
Michael C. Horowitz previously served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities and director of the Emerging Capabilities Policy Office. He is the ...
12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...
Using the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array, a 42-element radio interferometer at Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Hat Creek, California, astronomers probed 3I/ATLAS for artificial radio ...