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Rebellion within the ranks: China’s top military paper challenges Xi Jinping’s push for battlefield robots
A Chinese military newspaper, PLA Daily, has cautioned against the use of humanoid robots in warfare. The article highlights potential risks like indiscriminate killings and accidental deaths. It ...
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China has a plan: Technological innovation to secure its place on the geopolitical stage
Amid the trade war with the US, Beijing’s regime is prioritizing technology as a key driver of economic and political power ...
50 Years Later, Fascist Satire ‘A Boy and His Dog’ Goes Great with Deep Panic — and Summer Malaise
Notorious for its bad gender politics, this 1975 sci-fi film inspired "Mad Max" and "Fallout." It stars Don Johnson as an ...
'Superman' is silly and heartfelt — and shows the new DC Universe can easily rival Marvel
The director James Gunn reboots the DC Universe with "Superman," and smartly skips the character's over-told origin story.
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US-China team creates unique window glass coating to beat heat, cold and UV rays
Scientists at Rice University have succeeded in making energy-saving window coatings from boron nitride at room temperature.
The dogs training to sniff out flesh-eating screwworm in Mexico
A group of canines are training to detect the smell of screwworm, a flesh-eating pest that has infected Mexico's cattle herd and disrupted livestock trade with the United States, offering a glimmer of ...
Report shows $57 million in DoD funding for dog and cat experimentation despite Trump orders against practice
Nearly all of the contracts are with the U.S. Army. The experimentation ranges from several drug toxicology tests on dogs to ...
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Drones are now bullets: How a new Pentagon policy may accelerate robot warfare
The memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which builds on a July 6 White House executive order, does a couple of key ...