Audi Introduces The A7: An Automated Car That Can Self-Park And Drive To Meet You After You Finish Shopping

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2259558/Audi-A7-The-incredible-self-parking-car-come-meet-youre-shopping.html The incredible self-parking car that can even come and meet you when you’re done shopping Driverless Audi A7 can navigate through multi storey car parks to find an empty space – then park itself Owners can simply call their car via an app when they are done – and it will come and meet […]

U.S. Starts to Close Bases in Afghanistan

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/base-close-afghanistan/ By Spencer Ackerman Email Author March 15, 2012 | 6:30 am | Categories: Af/Pak U.S. troops from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division build a base in Parwan Province, Afghanistan in 2010. Photo: U.S. Army Here’s how you know the Afghan surge really is coming to an end: The U.S. Army is starting to […]

Exclusive: U.S., Britain to agree emergency oil stocks release

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/15/us-oil-reserves-idUSBRE82E0UM20120315 By Richard Mably LONDON | Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:15pm EDT (Reuters) – Britain has decided to cooperate with the United States in a bilateral agreement to release strategic oil stocks, two British sources said, in an effort to prevent high fuel prices derailing economic growth in a U.S. election year. A formal request […]

Clear to land: NASA new ‘augmented reality’ goggles will let airline pilots ‘see’ through fog

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114367/Clear-land-NASA-new-augmented-reality-goggles-let-airline-pilots-fog.html By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED: 08:16 EST, 13 March 2012 | UPDATED: 14:43 EST, 13 March 2012 NASA has created augmented reality goggles which could soon be available to airline pilots and help them ‘see’ through fog. The goggles can track a pilot’s head-movements and overlay runways, towers and potentially other airplanes over their view […]

Is long-term space travel really possible? Scans on astonauts reveal serious damage to eyes and brains

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114320/Can-humanity-cope-long-term-space-travel-Scans-reveal-damage-brains-eyes-astronauts.html MRI tests on travellers to International Space Station uncover effects on eyeballs and brain connections Mission to Mars may not be possible Humanity’s ability to get to and settle on another planet may also be a non-runner By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED: 05:57 EST, 13 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:20 EST, 13 March 2012 Brain […]

‘Startram’ magnetic space train could deliver four million people a year into orbit by 2032, say designers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2113785/The-11-09-Venus-leaving-platform-9-Startram-magnetic-space-train-deliver-million-people-year-orbit-2030-say-designers.html By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 05:16 EST, 12 March 2012 | UPDATED: 06:02 EST, 12 March 2012 A proposed ‘space train’ could make travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere far cheaper – and allow four million people a year to travel to space in just 20 years time. Startram – designed by by one of the inventors […]

Obama defends energy policies amid gas price pain

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/12/usa-energy-obama-idUSL2E8EC0VI20120312 Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:22pm EDT * Obama, acknowledging pain of high gas prices, sees progress * US oil imports down 1 million bpd last year – W.House report * Republicans say president’s policies a failure on gasoline By Alister Bull WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama launched the most comprehensive defense […]

U.S. military unveil latest weapon … a ray beam that makes the enemy feel ‘quite hot’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113529/U-S-military-unveil-latest-weapon–A-ray-beam-makes-enemy-feel-quite-hot.html The nonlethal weapon, which can be mounted on a military vehicle, is primarily designed for crowd control Weapon has been tested on more than 11,000 people, and in just two of those cases, it caused second-degree burns By Jill Reilly PUBLISHED: 15:35 EST, 11 March 2012 | UPDATED: 20:56 EST, 11 March 2012 The […]

“The Mother of All Bombs”: a “great weapon” to use on Iran, says US air force chief

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29680 by Global Research News Global Research, March 10, 2012 A top US Air Force general has described the biggest conventional warhead – the 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb – as “great” for a military strike on Iran. Such glib comment about a massive killing device comes in the same week that US President Barack Obama […]

Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/opinion-calo-drones-dogs-privacy/ By Ryan Calo Email Author March 8, 2012 | 5:38 pm | Categories: gps tracking, privacy Photo: U.S. Department of Defense Just in case you haven’t seen the memo: Drones are coming to a city near you. They are arriving on these shores by the hundreds after serving in war zones overseas, and plenty of new […]