This Week In Miscellanea: “Taking The World By Storm”

FIRST: Homeless Nation
An initiative begun by documentary film maker Daniel Cross, HN seeks to enfranchise homeless Canadians by providing them with access to a virtual community and supporting them with online advocacy. Some of the site’s features are pretty chilling, but they do seem to work. 
SECOND: In The News
al-Qaeda is apparently on the run.
The Japanese [...]

They rise…

… we fall.
 
I suppose it was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? I’m not sure I would shelve the SWORDS project so completely for what might very well be a stand alone technical fault; the battlefield benefits are pretty obvious. It’s been less than a year since it began, after all, and it seems to have [...]

Look, Sarge, No Grunt: Robots in Battle

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been around for a while. Some now carry air-to-ground armament in the form of Hellfire missiles. UGV - Unmanned Ground Vehicles - are a little more complicated. Mostly ’cause there’s more things to bump into down here. But they’re coming. Popular Science has an interesting round-up on how far Uncle [...]