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Laser beam warfare is here – but not as we expected

10 June 2015

Ronald Reagan imagined giant lasers in space shooting down Soviet missiles from afar. The reality has turned out to be mercifully modest, says Jeff Hecht

New Urbanist: Our infrastructure is expanding to include animals

5 May 2015

Animals are vital for the functioning of modern cities, but we need to be morally prepared when we inevitably start engineering them for specific urban tasks

A cybercrime wave is coming – brace yourself

8 April 2015

Phones, drones and robots can all be hacked and turned against us. Ex-Interpol agent Marc Goodman warns about the coming crime explosion

Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spies

8 October 2014

The next generation of surveillance is already here and will redefine what we mean by public space

What it's like to fly passenger planes from the ground

7 August 2014

Bob Fraser explains what it feels like to pilot a Jetstream airliner containing passengers on 800-kilometre trips from a desk

Baidu will battle Google for hearts and minds

23 July 2014

The digital lives of people outside the West are up for grabs and a Chinese dragon will fight Silicon Valley giants to get to them first

Contemplating the power of war to end all wars

15 April 2014

The threat of mutually assured destruction, military or economic, promotes peace in many places. If war has ultimately forged a safer world, what's next?

Forget roads – drones are the future of goods transport

4 September 2013

In rural parts of the world, building a reliable road infrastructure seems nigh on impossible. Andreas Raptopoulos has another idea: vast networks of drones