Flying Spy Bots

The US military wants to shoot off loads of flying, spying robots using missiles to make for faster sureillance and aerial attack. The first time for military: unmanned, long-range, ultra-high speed surveillance. The military refrained from building global strike missles due to similiarity of an atomic attacker which may trigger another world war. Drones coming from missles may give a larger geographic range for surveillance, while analyzing their own video. However, analysts are not equipped to cope with loads of data and parse them in real time.

Reference: Wired

Iris Recognition

Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) demonstrates that iris recognition algorithms can maintain their accuracy and interoperability for large-scale identity management applicaiton such as cyber security and counterterrorism. Iris recognition has emerged as the second most popular biometric characteristic. The primary work on the technologies is establishing standards for computer algorithms in iris recognition. Currently, there are three competing impage formats and three compression methods going for the international standard.

Reference: Science Daily