The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
During testing in December, a pair of AI programs were fed into the system: the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Autonomous Air Combat Operations (AACO) and…
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The US Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
On May 10, two fighter pilots performed a high-altitude proto-metaverse experiment. A few thousand feet above the desert of California, in a pair of Berkut…
Boom’s Quest to Make Supersonic Flights a Reality (Again)
Onboard my first plane in well over a year, since the start of the pandemic, I settle into seat 20F of United Airlines 1450, nonstop Newark to Denver on a…
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Pushes Back Commercial Space Flights
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. said it is pushing back the launch of full commercial service for private-astronaut trips until toward…
What the Pentagon’s New UFO Report Reveals About Humankind
It was perfectly reasonable for the Department of Defense to be concerned that these represented some kind of advanced Soviet technology, and so the Air…