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Microsoft says it has democratic responsibility to accept lucrative military contract

sudshr47 February 26, 2019

Microsoft agreed to take hundreds of millions of dollars to help soldiers kill — but don’t worry, the company’s CEO says it’s for the sake of democracy.

On Monday at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Nadella told CNN Business that Microsoft would continue developing HoloLens augmented reality (AR) technology for the U.S. military, despite employee protests. He couched the decision in terms of his corporation’s duty to support the government.

“We made a principled decision that we’re not going to withhold technology from institutions that we have elected in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy,” Nadella told CNN Business. Read more…

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Chinese company claims its ‘laser AK-47’ can set you on fire from half a mile away

sudshr47 July 2, 2018

Lasers! Everyone loves them, everyone wants them. But apart from a few niche applications they have failed to live up to the destructive potential that Saturday morning cartoons taught us all to expect. In defiance of this failure, a company in China claims to have produced a “laser AK-47” that can burn targets in a fraction of a second from half a mile away. But skepticism is still warranted.

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TSA makes super WTF video of most unusual items confiscated in 2017

sudshr47 January 5, 2018

The most unusual find at the airport might just be the Transportation Security Administration’s video of confiscated items.

Curtis Robert “Blogger Bob” Burns, who works for the TSA, hosted the video list again this year and included his bizarre takes on why someone would want to fly with a face tenderizer, a deadly looking fidget spinner, or a rifle-shaped umbrella.

The added graphics and sound effects enhance the experience — hear from Mr. Death himself, who left behind his scythe!

It’s a real list, however, with items like a creepy grenade animal sculpture actually found in someone’s carry-on at Albuquerque International Sunport. Read more…

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