Google’s Military Robotics: Humanoid Robots Future of Ground Warfare?
Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor.
Entries by Joe Miller
Alaska Governor Unveils New Plan for Gas Pipeline
Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday announced a new way forward on a long-hoped-for natural gas pipeline that includes scrapping the terms of a 2007 law he says no longer works well for the situation.
Remembering An Earlier Time When a Theft Unmasked Government Surveillance
On March 24, 1971, I became the first reporter to inform readers that the FBI wanted the American people to think there was an “FBI agent behind every mailbox.” That rather alarming alert came from stolen FBI files I had found in my own mailbox at The Washington Post when I arrived at work the previous morning.
Smart Rifle Never Misses, Now Comes in Semi-Automatic Form
In the near future, you won’t even need to know how to fire a rifle to be a crack shot.
Data Shows More Young Veterans Committing Suicide
The rate among 18- to 29-year-old men climbed 44% over 3 years, a new analysis shows, although it declined among older male veterans.
LA County Votes to Restore Cross to Seal; ACLU Has Dracula-like Response
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which represents a population greater than a number of states, has voted 3-2 to restore the cross to the San Gabriel Mission church on the L.A. County seal to accurately depict the Mission, which now appears on the county seal without its cross.
Death Threats and Denial for Woman Who Showed College Athletes Struggle to Read (+video)
The death threats, Mary Willingham expected. More shocking is that the University of North Carolina is now disavowing her research as a whistle-blower — research that showed between 8% and 10% of the school’s football and basketball players are reading below a third-grade level.
Woman Finds Wrong Body in Her Mother’s Casket
A woman wants answers after discovering the wrong body in a casket that should have contained her mother, who died unexpectedly while on vacation in St. Maarten.
Cruz: President Has Engaged in Pattern of ‘Lawlessness on a breathtaking scale’
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has told a conservative conference that President Barack Obama is lawless, providing the right wing rhetoric that makes him so popular in his home state.
Add Another Name to the List of 2016 Hopefuls…
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is headed to New Hampshire, the destination for top presidential contenders and long shots alike leading up to 2016′s presidential season.