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US Army Set Aside Millions For Gaming Sponsorships to Promote Recruitment!
The US Army has had a long, interesting, and often (predominantly) controversial history when it has come to video games. – It seems pretty clear that they’ve always viewed them as a somewhat decent portal in regard to helping promote recruitment to the armed forces, but they’ve never really struck…
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US Air Force Reveals Exoskeleton That Allows 1 Man to Move a 3,500-Pound Pallet
When I think of exoskeletons my initial thoughts typically tend to go towards futuristic technologies featured in gaming titles such as Metal Gear Solid or Death Stranding. – The fact is though that while the technology might still be in its relative infancy, it is out there in the wild…
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US Army is Shutting Down its Iconic (and Controversial) Video Game
Released back in 2002, ‘America’s Army’ was arguably one of the most controversial gaming releases of all time. Developed and published by the US Army, the game was, effectively, a recruitment campaign. Basically a means of showing what life in the US armed forces was like with, admittedly, a fair…
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Microsoft Agrees $22BN HoloLens Headset Deal With US Army
While Microsoft’s ‘HoloLens’ augmented reality headset is certainly a very impressive piece of technology, it does come with one pretty major caveat for the general consumer. Namely, that it’s really expensive! – It was, in fact, so expensive that when the original model was released, Microsoft was seemingly more interested…
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Civilian Gets Accidentally Launched From Jet Ejector Seat
Civilian Accidentally Launched From Ejector Seat For those of you who have an interesting in flying and specifically military jets, it’s likely a dream to actually get to fly in one of them. For one particular passenger, however, that dream turned very quickly into a nightmare! In a report via…
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Microsoft CEO Defends Army HoloLens Contract
Microsoft CEO Defends Army Contract While the Microsoft AR headset, the HoloLens, hasn’t really had much to talk about in the last few months, it’s been all go in the last few days. On the more positive side of things (at least from Microsoft perspective) they have just announced that…
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Microsoft Workers Demand Army HoloLens Contract Is Dropped
Microsoft Workers Unhappy Over Army Contract Various military forces around the world have expressed a very strong interest in VR or AR technology. This is largely for implementation either in training or actually on the battlefield. This is, however, ethically a rather difficult situation as the technology companies that create…
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Former Royal Marine Takes On Assault Course In Jet Suit
Jet Suit Shown Tackling Assault Course It has probably been the dream of many to own some kind of rocket jetpack. Well, if not then science fiction makers clearly seem to think so as it’s a subject they’ve regularly visited for over 70 years now. A now retired Royal Marine…
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US Army Accepting Bids For $500m Robot Contract
US Army Accepting Robot Contract Bids Whether you like the idea of it or not, recent years have seen various armed forces across the world looking more towards robots. Fortunately, in most instances these robots have been used for either recognisance or, on a much more understandable level, doing the…
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Microsoft Lands $480m Hololens Contract From US Army
Microsoft Lands Hololens Contract From US Army Over the last year, we’ve seen rather a lot of news surrounding augmented reality headsets. Of these, perhaps the two most notable examples are the Magic Leap and Microsoft’s Hololens. While it might anger some people though, it’s very nieve to think that…
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Magic Leap Are Already After Military Funding
Magic Leap Are Already After Military Funding After years of development, Magic Leap surprised everyone by finally launching the creator’s edition of their augmented reality headset last August. Although I don’t wish to sound mean about it, the headset had been in development for so long with so little information…
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Pentagon Plans To Spend $2BN On More Weapon AI
Pentagon Plans To Spend $2BN On More Weapon AI Computers have started to play a much bigger role in terms of weapons. We have guided missiles, feedback reporting armour and even (maybe) killer robots. It seems, however, that the Pentagon in the US is keen to push this technology even…
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US Military Drone Information Sold On Dark Web
US Military Drone Information Sold On Dark Web Military secrets are, well pretty darn secret! It’s for reasons such as this that they are often kept hidden in bases. Bases with big walls (often electrified) and guarded by people trained to kill with their intimidating looking assault rifles. It seems,…
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China Reveal ‘Non-Lethal’ Laser Rifle Able To Set You On Fire
China Military Reveal ‘Non-Lethal’ Laser Rifle Capable Of Burning You Alive In terms of military power, China is certainly no joke. If we completely overlook the size of their army, which incidentally is around 1.6 million people (compared to Britains of roughly 300,000) the fact that they have the technology…
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DARPA Re-Invents The Wheel In Two Seconds
DARPA Re-Invent the Wheel With A Tyre That Can Turn Into A Track DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I say this initially because I’m pretty certain that many of you who played Metal Gear Solid will certainly know the name, but perhaps not what it stood…
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