FirstNet-related Tactical LTE Communications System at Urban Shield Exercise
Oakland CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2014 -
At Urban Shield 2014, Mutualink, Sonim and Oceus will participate in a FirstNet-related deployment of an Enhanced System on Wheels (ESOW). The exercise will give public safety officials in northern California the opportunity to prepare for a coordinated, multi-agency, emergency response using advanced collaboration across LTE Band 14.
During the Urban Shield exercise, officials from the No ...
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US Army Europe uses technology to conduct exercises with different nations
Hohenfels, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2014 -
U.S. Army Europe uses its latest simulation technology to join two training exercises from different countries and allow commanders to view and control troop movements as though units from both exercises are operating in the same area.
Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade will appear to drop into Germany near Munich, which is just south of the main body of the Saber Junction exerci ...
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Tech giants bet on 'smart home' revolution
Berlin (AFP) Sept 10, 2014 -
It's long been the stuff of science fiction, but tech giants hope the "smart home", where gadgets talk to each other and the fridge orders the milk, will soon become reality.
The futuristic vision of wireless domestic bliss that puts people and their smartphones or tablets at the centre of an "Internet of Things" is a key theme at this year's IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin.
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China to launch second space lab in 2016: official
Beijing (AFP) Sept 10, 2014 -
China will launch its second orbiting space laboratory in two years' time, a top official said Wednesday, the latest step in an ambitious space programme Beijing says will one day land a Chinese man on the moon.
Astronaut Yang Liwei, who in 2003 became China's first man in space and is now deputy director of the country's manned space programme, made the announcement at the Association of Sp ...
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Check out the massive solar flare the sun had today
Houston (UPI) Sep 10, 2014 -
The sun was pretty active Wednesday, unleashing a huge solar flare toward the Earth.
The sun fired off what's known as an X-class solar flare, the most powerful type of flare, around 1:45 p.m. ET. The flare came out of a sunspot called Active Region 2158, which faces toward the Earth.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft caught images of the big event, which posed no thre ...
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Ultra-thin Detector Captures Unprecedented Range of Light
College Park MD (SPX) Sep 10, 2014 -
New research at the University of Maryland could lead to a generation of light detectors that can see below the surface of bodies, walls, and other objects. Using the special properties of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon that is only one atom thick, a prototype detector is able to see an extraordinarily broad band of wavelengths.
Included in this range is a band of light wavelen ...
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Israel, US test upgraded Arrow 2 missile interceptor
Jerusalem (AFP) Sept 09, 2014 -
Israel and the United States on Tuesday successfully conducted a joint test of an upgraded Arrow 2 ballistic missile interception system over the Mediterranean Sea, the defence ministry said.
"An Arrow 2 missile was launched and performed its flight sequence as planned," the defence ministry said in a statement, with a spokesman confirming the system had been upgraded.
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