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Microsoft Is Set To Make US$22 Billion Worth Of Augmented Reality Headsets For The US Army
Microsoft has reportedly been awarded a ten-year contract worth close to US$22 billion, to provide 120,000 military-grade augmented reality (AR) headsets to the US Army. Popularised through mobile apps such as Pokémon Go and face filters on social media, AR technology is fundamentally about superimposing digital images over real-world environments. The AR interface commissioned…
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AOC’s Measure to Kill U.S. Military Twitch Streams Fails House Vote
An amendment proposed by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that would st0p the military from recruiting on platforms like Twitch failed a House vote on Thursday. Had it passed, it would have added a provision to the House Committee on Appropriations Bill to bar the U.S. military from using federal funds to maintain “a presence on…
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U.S. Defence Department, Army Units Post Glossy Photo Of Nazi War Criminal To Facebook
Today in extremely bad decisions: The U.S. Department of Defence as well as the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division and XVIII Airborne Corps uploaded the same glossy, artificially colourised photo of reviled war criminal and Waffen-SS officer Joachim Peiper to Facebook on Wednesday, the Daily Beast reported.
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U.S. Army Looking Into National Security Concerns Over TikTok After Using It To Recruit Troops
The United States Army, which has attracted scrutiny for deploying its recruitment campaign on TikTok, hears the drums of the resistance, Reuters reports. On Thursday, U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy announced that he’s ordered a national security assessment in response to a letter from Senator Chuck Schumer, who again flagged concerns over user data vulnerable…