We’re at a fascinating and potentially profitable crossroads with a new technology as the emerging drone industry comes up with solutions to some of today’s problems while helping create possible guidelines for the future.
Source: http://money.msn.com
High-tech weapons may be screaming through the skies at five times the speed of sound by the middle of the next decade, U.S. military officials say. That’s the most optimistic timeline for the battlefied debut of a superfast new strike capability, officials said, and it depends on continued research into hypersonic vehicles like the Air Force’s X-51A Waverider, which completed its final test flight earlier this month.
Source: http://science.nbcnews.com
The intensive use of drones by the Obama administration is feeding a wave of protest and criticism which reaches Geneva next week when a coalition of NGOs will call for a halt to the race to build technology for autonomous killing robots.
Source: www.swissinfo.ch
