Could DARPA's enigmatic X-65 plane revolutionise aircraft design?
18 January 2024
The US military will test an aircraft that flies without mechanical control surfaces like flaps and rudders, potentially boosting stealth characteristics
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Found 314 results for drones
Cheap drone attacks have outsized effect on global economic inflation
12 January 2024
Drone attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are having a global economic impact and showing how an organisation without a navy can challenge control of the seas
Sharks can be deterred from beaches by catching and releasing them
3 January 2024
A non-lethal method of catching great white sharks and releasing them 500 metres further out to sea can make the predators steer clear of beaches where people swim
Alastair Reynolds: An exclusive short story for Â鶹´«Ã½
13 December 2023
Lottie and the River is a moving vision of the future from astrophysicist turned award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds
The spy balloon saga of 2023 inflated US-China political tensions
13 December 2023
One of the year’s most unexpected controversies exploded after a US fighter jet shot down a Chinese balloon that drifted across North America – it also sparked fears over other unidentified flying objects
Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024
12 December 2023
A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain
‘Insect-eye’ compass can navigate by the sun even on a cloudy day
27 November 2023
By mimicking how some insects use polarised light to navigate, a light-detecting compass can tell where magnetic north is even if clouds are covering the sun
How the US and China talking AI safety could reduce nuclear war risk
16 November 2023
At a meeting between US president Biden and China president Xi, there was agreement on the need for more US-China government talks on AI safety
Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight
13 October 2023
Ukraine is using drones equipped with artificial intelligence that can identify and attack targets without any human control, in the first battlefield use of autonomous weapons or "killer robots"
The Creator review: A mishmash of science fiction ideas
4 October 2023
Set during a futuristic war between humans and artificial intelligence, The Creator is nothing if not spectacular. Shame it is cobbled together from the tropes of other science fiction movies, says Simon Ings
