Technologies - Page 727

March 24, 2016

Robots that fall upwards to safeguard the oceans

The U.S. military wants to seed the remote reaches of the deep sea -- with unmanned stealth technology.

March 24, 2016

Eavesdropping on your phone from anywhere in the world

From anywhere in the world, hackers can exploit vulnerabilities in VoIP phones to eavesdrop on private conversations -- listening not just to your voice but also the other people and sounds of the environment around you.

March 24, 2016

Liquid ping-pong robots self assemble in Colorado

Robo-droplets are now swarming together, coalescing into a "liquid that thinks," in the lab of Professor Nikolaus Correll from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

March 24, 2016

Give your smartphone Superman vision

A new low-cost, imager chip could give your average smartphone the ability to see through walls and objects Superman style.

March 24, 2016

Why the police should take to Twitter NOW

A whopping 92 percent of citizens want to help out local law enforcement -- they just wish the police would reach out through social media to give them the chance.

March 24, 2016

World War II encryption for your e-mail

Want to protect your sensitive emails? You might want to consider going retro -- and exploiting an unbreakable WWII-style cipher.

March 24, 2016

A voiceprint and a dash of salt can protect your laptop

Take one laptop with information you’d like to keep private, add new voiceprint technology and a dash of salt and you’ve secured your privacy, according to a Carnegie Mellon University team.

March 24, 2016

Military tech can monitor all world media at the press of a button

Could Raytheon technology have anticipated the escalating negative sentiment towards Americans linked to the foreign media coverage of the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” -- and perhaps helped protect U.S. embassies abroad?

March 24, 2016

Gold, silver, bronze, silicon? Robot Olympics set to begin

While the world gears up for the London Olympics, humanoid robots are preparing to compete in their own Olympics.

March 24, 2016

Could guided bullets turn average Joe into sniper?

Two military research labs have been racing to revolutionize rifle accuracy and range by developing the first-ever guided bullets -- a technology that could potentially give any hunter sniper skills, if made public.