Tag Archives: War

Hezbollah brandishing drones to deter an Israel war

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah recently released videos showing footage from one of its drones flying over the Israeli city of Haifa and the surrounding area. Hezbollah released the videos shortly after American special envoy Amos Hochstein went to Beirut in a bid to get Lebanese political leaders to pressure …

Read More »

How drone technology is helping Ukraine fight its war

Thursday 02 May 2024 4:29 pm How It Works is a video interview series, where Jess Jones sits down with business leaders for a discussion about how various technologies work. In this week’s episode of How It Works, City A.M.’s media, tech, and telecoms reporter Jess Jones sits down with Ricardo Mendes, the …

Read More »

Virginia Tech students protest War in Gaza, intending multip…

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WFXR) — Unrest continues at colleges and universities across the country. Demonstrators from New York’s Colombia University to California’s Cal State are addressing the war in Gaza. On Friday, April 26, protests began much closer to home, though it was a much more peaceful scene at Virginia Tech …

Read More »

Israel at war again after Iran drone and missile attacks

The news broke after Shabbat: “Iran has fired dozens of drones at Israel, and they could arrive in nine hours.” It seemed almost surreal. Iran had been threatening action since the beginning of the war, and now, due to Israel’s strike on one of their high-ranking generals, they had …

Read More »

Markets flash early signs of risk from wider Mideast war

Cryptocurrency prices fell Saturday evening after Iran launched a wave of drones at Israel, marking an early indication of the turmoil that could hit markets as investors start to price in the threat of a broader Middle East war. Bitcoin was down 5% from its price on Friday, while ether …

Read More »

Ukraine’s AI Drones Are Making War Much Deadlier for Russia

Israel’s use of artificial intelligence to help its forces select targets for air strikes worries A.I. skeptics and human-rights advocates. A targeting A.I. is only as smart as the people who trained it—and those people are prone to dropping bombs in the wrong places, these experts warned. All that is …

Read More »