Russia's strategic aviation to conduct 6 exercises in August

" Russia Russia's strategic aviation to conduct 6 exercises in August 15:59 | 31/ 07/ 2007 Print version MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian strategic aviation will fly over the North Pole and...

Artificial Emergencies to Train Real Heroes: AI Firefighting

A very clever guy has devised an Artificial-Intelligence training tool for firefighters, stemming the need to organize a large team of veterans to train the new recruits. I imagine that some human element will...

Come on Baby, Pardon his Conviction

Should Jim Morrison get a posthumous pardon for a 40-year-old conviction? Two die-hard Morrison fans, David Diamond and Kerry Humphreys think so. They wrote the Governor of Florida to pardon Morrison (a Florida...

When Rummy tried to nuke Russia

I wonder if he wore some kind of kooky hat during the simulations. "Herein lies an aspect of Rumsfeld's career -- and character -- that remained deeply buried even after word of his participation in the COG...

Another successful test for missile defense shield

"The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency shot down a dummy target missile over the southern Pacific Ocean during a test of the U.S. missile defense shield early Saturday, according to an agency spokeswoman. First, a dummy ballistic missile was fired from a U.S. mobile launch...

More Internet users may be taking 'phishing' bait than thought

"A higher-than-expected percentage of Internet users are likely to fall victim to scam artists masquerading as trusted service providers, report researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics. "Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A Study of eBay Query...

Is It Talent or Practice?

"Experts on expertise -- who've studied the minds of experts in fields from sports to medicine -- have the answer. "

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