What F-35? Turkey scoffs US and goes for Russian Su-57

Only weeks after Russia announced that it would be giving its dying fifth generation fighter a new lease on life (in the form of plans to actually produce 76 of the aircraft), Russian President Vladimir Putin has been spotted peddling the fighter to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This sales pitch has been seen by […]

China reveals its new drone warships

Last week, the United States Navy released industry solicitations for their new conceptual large unmanned surface vehicles (LUSV), as they begin the hunt for the right ship builder to assemble a fleet of ten of these large drone ships. Building off the successes the Navy and DARPA have had with their autonomous Sea Hunter drone […]

Here’s what we know about the SR-72, Lockheed’s Mach 6 Blackbird successor

The SR-71 Blackbird has had an almost immeasurable effect on the world we live in today. Its record as the fastest aircraft ever to take to the skies speaks to the incredible engineering and problem solving employed by Lockheed Martin in the 1960s, and the reconnaissance missions it carried out over the Soviet Union and […]

Trade War: Fresh trade negotiations with China bear no fruit

Top negotiators from the United States and China met this week to see if they can find a way to end a trade war between the two nations. The U.S. delegation is led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer who are in Shanghai to meet with their Chinese counterparts. No agreements […]

Op-Ed: Comcast joins tech race to monitor your health. How invasive will it be?

Tired of managing your own health choices? Soon you’ll be able to let Comcast do it for you. If that sounds strange to you, don’t worry, it’s not the first company to offer this type of service and hardware. Apple has been testing health-tracking through its Apple Watch, Google is targeting senior living facilities with […]

Surprise, surprise: Amazon Alexa’s eavesdropping worse than you thought

Since the inception of smart-speaker assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and others, consumers have to live with the fact that by using these products and services, their data is being collected. How much, though? This is a frequent topic of debate. Some experts say the sheer bandwidth and storage required would […]