Pat Dollard

Wired’s Danger Room: The U.S. military has been after self-guided bullets for years. Now, government researchers have finally made it happen: a bullet that can navigate itself a full mile before successfully nailing its target. The breakthrough comes courtesy of engineers at the government’s Sandia National Laboratories. They’ve successfully tested a prototype of the bullet [...]

Bloomberg Businessweek: Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — California will require automakers to sell millions of “zero-emission” vehicles — battery- electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen-powered — setting new standards followed by states from New York to Oregon. The rules adopted today by the California Air Resources Board mean manufacturers will have to produce about 1.4 million advanced [...]

In Auto News: According to the guys at automotivenews.com, the United States dealers are currently refusing to take Chevrolet Volts and this decision has been taken by most of them because of the NHTSA investigation. Our source is also telling us that only in the New York area, from the 104 units allocated, dealers had [...]

“I think it’s good. People will be safer and it will be a safer environment,” Jessica Ramos said. “If it’s going to make us safer as citizens I’m okay with that,” said Lori Sampson of Lake Ronkonkoma. “I think it’s all about invading people’s lives more and more and more,” Antonio Gabriel said. “It’s definitely [...]

ABC: SOPA. PIPA. “Internet Censorship.” Wikipedia’s one-day blackout. The news is all over the Web, but what do the terms mean? Here is a quick review of the debate as it comes to a head this week: The Bills in Congress: PIPA is a Senate bill originally called the Protect IP Act. “IP” is short, [...]

Psychological expert says in this video that research shows there is a “link between Autism and child prodigies”.

NYTimes: A Russian scientific probe that was meant to visit a Martian moon but never made it out of Earth orbit crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 700 miles west of Chile on Sunday, a Russian military spokesman said. The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft had been circling Earth since shortly after its launching on Nov. 9, losing [...]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A hacker who goes by the name of ‘Yama Tough’ threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp’s flagship Norton Antivirus software. “This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow,” Yama Tough posted via Twitter. In the past week Yama [...]

Daily Mail: As advances in computer technology make gadgets ever smaller and more portable the idea of carrying a screen of any kind could soon be outdated. Consumer products with screens have dropped in size from computer to laptop to tablet via phone. But one company specialising in cutting edge visual technology waIsraeli company Lumus [...]

Thousands of mourners chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

(ZDNet) — General Motors is closely watching sales of its Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle and will adjust its production of the car accordingly, potentially by June, according to a report Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal. Actually, it sounds like the company’s Volt electric vehicles may be available strictly on a build-to-order basis in the [...]

Fox News: The U.S. military is testing a revolutionary new drone for its arsenal, a pilotless helicopter intended to fly cargo missions to remote outposts where frequent roadside bombs threaten access by road convoys. Surveillance drones for monitoring enemy activity and armed versions for launching air strikes have become a trademark of America’s wars in [...]

DailyMailUK: A chemical from an ancient herbal remedy makes rats almost immune to the effects of alcohol. Rats who’ve consumed the drug can consume vast quantities of alcohol without passing out, show few signs of a hangover – and don’t become alcoholics, even after weeks of solid drinking, say researchers. The chemical is extracted from [...]

Washington Times: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Thursday will put the official Pentagon stamp on a new U.S. strategy toward Asia. The strategy will solidify efforts to refocus on countering China’s growing arsenal of missiles, submarines, cyberweapons and other forces designed to push U.S. forces out of the region. A senior U.S. official tells [...]

Fox News: Japan reportedly has paid Fujitsu $2.3 million to build a self-replicating assassin squad — a computer virus it can set loose in the network to track down and eliminate other viruses. Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the Defense Ministry’s Technical Research and Development Institute began developing the anti-viral virus in 2008. The [...]