NEWS: Google building its own broadband networks

1GB/s speeds promised for at least 50,000 people across the US

Google has dropped yet another bomb – announcing suddenly that it’s about to start building ultra-fast fibre-optic broadband networks in a selection of communities across the United States. It’ll provide speeds of up to – get this – 1Gbps.
That’s twenty times faster than the fastest [...]

February 11th, 2010 by admin
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NEWS: Bomb detection device ruled fraudulent

British inventor imprisoned

The inventor of a bomb detection device that the US Army described as working “on the same principle as a Ouija board” has been arrested after a court ruled that it was fraudulent, and banned it from sale.
The ADA-651 comprises a plastic grip, an antenna and a wire that leads to an RFID [...]

January 28th, 2010 by admin
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Video of Humvee-Mounted Laser Avenger Killing Bombs [Weapons]

Watch as this bad boy—the Humvee-mounted Laser Avenger that destroyed a drone in January 2009—obliterates bomb after bomb during a test at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. It just takes a few seconds, and boom.

Not exactly Star Wars material, but this will save a lot of lives in the future—and destroy others too, [...]

January 23rd, 2010 by admin
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