Defence & Security

Europe makes the case to ban biometric surveillance

Wired UK: Your body is a data goldmine. From the way you look to how you think and feel, firms working in the burgeoning biometrics industry are developing new and alarming ways to track everything we do. And, in many cases,…

In Push to Find Methane Leaks, Satellites Gear Up for the Hunt

Yale Environment 360: The threat was invisible to the eye: tons of methane billowing skyward, blown out by natural gas pipelines snaking across Siberia. In the past, those plumes of potent greenhouse gas released by Russian petroleum operations last year might have…

The robots of the future are already among us

Wired UK: Robots might not be coming for our jobs, but they’re already proving useful coworkers in fields as diverse as medicine, horticulture and religion. Able to interpret the world around them using sensors and machine learning, these robots have very…

Lasers Could Clear Space Junk From Orbit

IEEE Spectrum: Ever since humans started launching rockets into space, the amount of junk flying around Earth has been growing, to the point where debris has damaged satellites or forced the space station to shift its orbit. Now researchers in Australia…