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Concept from WWII dazzle ships being applied to spoof facial recognition scanners
An artist finds that the same approach used in World War I to confound the rangefinders on attacking ships will prevent a facial scanner from recognizing you.
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Falcon is 'Navy SEAL of the UPS world'
The SSGKRP-1 Uninterrupted Power Supply from Falcon Electric has both brains and brawn, and performs hot, cold and dirty.
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Navy SEALS carried tools to extract data during raid
A look at some of the technology used to quickly and, when necessary, stealthily collect information at bin Laden's compound and other locations.
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Time ran out for bin Laden thanks to latest tech
Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden's low-tech approach kept him hidden for years. But being off the grid eventually helped expose him, and new technology assisted in finding him.
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Padlock secures data without slowing down collaboration
The Aegis Padlock, a 750G, solid-state hard drive with fast transfer rates, is a secure way to store data.
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Steelhead appliance can cut latency out of the cloud
The Steelhead appliance from Riverbed Technology uses wide-area network optimization techniques to reduce or eliminate the nagging problem of latency in the cloud.
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Rugged Getac laptop takes on the Lab's Thunderdome
The Getac B300 has a surprising number of features not found in all rugged laptops these days, such as lots of external ports and a fully functional DVD drive.
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Remote tents can morph into war rooms with this rugged display system
The GCN Lab takes HDT Technologies' rugged interactive whiteboard system out for a field test.
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Toughbook 31 has the brains to go with the brawn
The GCN Lab kicks the tires on the new Panasonic Toughbook 31 and finds a fully rugged laptop PC with the power of a good desktop.
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NFL technology is in play on the battlefield
The idea of the military tapping replay technology used by the National Football League to manage the fast-growing volume of battlefield video shouldn’t be overturned, GCN Lab director John Breeden writes.
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Can DARPA get a flying car off the ground?
GCN Lab director John Breeden is glad to see that DARPA is putting serious research into developing a flying car, like we were promised by futurists decades ago.
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Nexus One: All that and a trackball
Google ups the ante in the smart phone frenzy with the Nexus One, a smart phone running the Android OS.
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Droid does it better
The new Verizon Wireless Droid by Motorola is a phone that could really change the industry, and the way the federal government does its job.
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Open source comes to Army Go Mobile program
The Army’s Maj. Keith Parker demos the Go Mobile kit to the GCN Lab.
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Windows 7 review: 'New' OS is just Vista with small changes
Microsoft's Windows 7 has been touted as a new, better-running operating system. But despite the addition of a few handy features, the GCN Lab finds that it looks just like the Vista OS, has a lot of the same annoying quirks as Vista and delivers no difference in performance from Vista.
