Iraq

Soldier Dogs: The Four-Legged Heroes Of Iraq And Afghanistan

BY Neal Ungerleider | 03-30-2012 | 8:00 AM | AFGHANISTAN

DARPA develops drones, lasers, and robot pack mules, but they can't engineer the kind of canine courage that author Maria Goodavage found in these ruff riders. READ MORE›

Army Tweaks Recruitment Video Game To Train Soldiers For Real "Hurt Locker" Situations

BY Neal Ungerleider | 08-02-2011 | 1:13 PM | INNOVATION

Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs. While it may have been created as a game, the software's platform is proving versatile enough to use for battlefield training.READ MORE›

The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War

BY Greg Lindsay | 08-01-2011 | 9:09 AM | DESIGN

In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: Predator drones are just the start of unmanned, autonomous warfare technology. But as the tech becomes more democratized and more deadly, what happens when anyone can assemble an army of killing machines?READ MORE›

Google, IBM, YouTube, And Kabul? Pentagon Hosts Afghan Tech Entrepreneurs In The U.S.

BY E.B. Boyd | 06-20-2011 | 2:05 AM | TECHNOLOGY

“The goal,” says Paul Brinkley, a former technology executive and now Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, “is to create an indigenous economy in Afghanistan that gives the Afghans hope, creates employment opportunities for young people, and discourages association with the radicals.”READ MORE›

War-Zone Videos Get On-Demand Treatment in New Defense Department Project

BY Neal Ungerleider | 04-11-2011 | 11:59 AM | ETHONOMICS

A new $29 million Defense Department project makes viewing military intelligence from Afghanistan as easy as ordering a movie from Netflix. READ MORE›

Electromagnetic Ray Gun Remote-Explodes IEDs

BY Kit Eaton | 02-17-2011 | 11:19 AM | INNOVATION

A Swiss-designed electromagnetic weapon could turn into a powerful anti-terrorist device capable of safely defusing improvised explosive devices from 25 meters away.READ MORE›

"Virtual Iraq" Helps Soldiers Overcome PTSD

BY David Zax | 02-17-2011 | 9:29 AM | INNOVATION

Previously shown to be effective for Vietnam vets, virtual reality exposure therapy, according to new research, also benefits active-duty soldiers who've returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.READ MORE›

Smartphones on the Ground: Ex-Green Berets Bring Tech to Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

BY E.B. Boyd | 01-10-2011 | 1:48 AM | INNOVATION

The U.S. military is hampered by antiquated technologies that leave units all but deaf and blind as they try to hunt down insurgents and win hearts and minds. A team of former Special Forces officers is now building the tools to fix that.READ MORE›

Google Goes to Pakistan

BY E.B. Boyd | 12-22-2010 | 6:27 PM | INNOVATION

Google sends another tech delegation to the Middle East to see how its tools are being used, and look for opportunities to expand Internet adoption.READ MORE›

WikiLeaks Word Clouds: Iraq and Cablegate

BY Kit Eaton | 11-29-2010 | 9:40 AM | INNOVATION

WikiLeaks pulled the veil off thousands of U.S. diplomatic and Iraq War communications. As we've done before, we looked at the data in a different way: By peeking at the words themselves.READ MORE›

Bringing Computer Modeling to "The Hurt Locker"

BY David Zax | 11-22-2010 | 12:03 PM | TECHNOLOGY

A new MIT study created detailed models of how blast waves interact with brain tissue, concluding that adding face shields to standard helmets could greatly reduce the incidence of traumatic brain injury.READ MORE›

The Mathematics of War: Sean Gurley Discovers Common Patterns in Attacks Across the Globe

BY EarthSky.org | 11-09-2010 | 2:00 PM | ETHONOMICS

The PopTech science fellow started by looking at attacks in Iraq, then studied conflicts in different parts of the world, and discovered the same mathematical patterns.READ MORE›

Microsoft Goes to Baghdad

BY E.B. Boyd | 11-04-2010 | 2:29 PM | INNOVATION

A new certified training center, courtesy of a collaboration with the Pentagon, will help accelerate economic growth and stability in Iraq--and make sure the country is Microsoft-ready.READ MORE›

Google's Iraq Tour of Duty

BY David Zax | 10-27-2010 | 7:41 AM | ETHONOMICS

A group from Google and YouTube recently toured Iraq to explore opportunities there, and conduct an experiment in digital government transparency.READ MORE›

iFive: Facebook User Privacy Abuse, Yahoo Connect, WikiLeaks' Iraq Stash, Toddlers and Smartphones, Megapixel Wars

BY Kit Eaton | 10-18-2010 | 5:19 AM | INNOVATION

Monday's early news, from people who've been awake for hours:READ MORE›

iFive: Troops In (Iraq!), Starbucks' Digital Network, Apple TV Becomes iTV, Google-Verizon Ruminations, Rubik's Cube Break-Thru

BY Addy Dugdale | 08-12-2010 | 3:58 AM | TECHNOLOGY

Innovation never snoozes.READ MORE›

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