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Drones have evolved significantly from being approved tools for surveillance and reconnaissance in the last two decades of the 20th century to becoming versatile weapons used in air-to-ground and air-to-air strikes. Eventually, they transformed into suicide drones (kamikaze). Various armies and militias operating on Syrian territory have employed drones in …

Scratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel in “moving fast and breaking things” as the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, used to put …

Nearly 20 months after the military coup in Myanmar, amid a rapidly intensifying conflict, People’s Defense Force (PDF) paramilitary groups are turning to drone technology to level the playing field as they engage with better equipped junta troops. When the PDF formed in the months following the Feb. 1, 2021 …

Conservative MP Michael Chong raises a point of order before the Finance Minister delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tuesday March 19, 2019. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS) Canada’s opposition Conservative Party wants answers from the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over its decision to …