Iraq

Google's Digitizing Iraqi Historic Archives

Kit Eaton — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:53:33 -0500

Google's extending its grip on the digital world in a wholly new and surprising way: It's just brokered a deal with Iraq's authorities to digitize historic artifacts and documents in the country's museums. It's a philanthropic move, don't you know.

Cell Phones to the Rescue, for Iraqi Refugees

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:04:20 -0400

Iraq’s Official New History Provides Insight On Crafting Company Narratives

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:25:18 -0400

Last week the Iraqi government launched a new version of its official history.

Designed to Save Lives: The Army's Newest Armored Truck

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:30:59 -0400

Armed (and Networked) to the Teeth

Cliff Kuang — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:57:42 -0400

An army brigade is headed to Afghanistan, armed with a "Land Warrior" suite of high-tech battlefield equipment that includes electronic maps, GPS beacons, wearable computers, and digital radios.

NATO Tweets Too [Updated]

Kit Eaton — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:50:28 -0400

Twitter gained a lot of credibility thanks to its use by Iranian protestors recently, and we already knew that it was useful for spreading breaking news. But did you know that NATO, the global military machine, Twitters too?

XM25 Rifle Fires Around Corners, Inside Trenches

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:14:26 -0400

American infantrymen could soon get a lot more fearsome in the field: The Army has just developed a rifle that will enable soldiers to attack around corners and inside trenches. The bullet itself doesn't curve--cool as that would be. Rather, it can be programmed to explode 1-to-3 meters short of or past a given target, thus allowing its shrapnel to reach a hidden enemy. (See the diagram above.)

Mining Data to Predict Attacks in Iraq

Chris Dannen — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:45:14 -0400

Physicist Sean Gourley thinks he may be able to model and predict violence in Iraq.

And it's not just Iraq; Gourley, who works for the San Fransisco-based startup YouNoodle, has used his military side project to map the distribution of attacks in wars in Afghanistan, Colombia and Senegal as well. His finding: the casualties in all four of those conflicts, despite the chaos, fall into a precise mathematical distribution.

A Small Business Lesson I Learned from a Spy.

Susan Solovic — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:07:29 -0500

I was speechless (and for me that hardly ever happens) when I met Valerie Plame Wilson last week at a VIP reception in New York hosted by the

Saving Lives in Iraq With Tech Convention Schwag

Francisco Dao — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:36:10 -0400

I DO CARE.

Penny Ronning — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:06:03 -0500

Two days ago I received a FWD to my inbox that I'd received once
before, but deleted it after reading only the first two lines. This
time I read it in full.

YIKES!

A feeling of disgust that I'd deleted the FWD the first time washed
over me. Why didn't I read it and respond to the sender then? If I were
at a party and heard someone actually saying the words written in the
FWD, I would constructively and in love respond to the storyteller. So,
why did I not do that with an email?