At the end of September, VICE compiled its five part series on Aleppo into an hour-long documentary. For those following Syria and conflict environment more generally, it features sights you’ve seen before. Regardless, it’s still a-must-watch. If you missed it the first time around, check it out above. Here’s the description: Aleppo is Syria’s largest metropolitan area […]
Today, Robert Cardillo takes over for outgoing director Tish Long at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Cadillo began his career back in 1983 as an imagery analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency and has spent over 31 years in the intelligence community. Prior to becoming NGA’s director, he was previously selected by DNI Clapper to serve as […]
VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings. VICE published Dairieh’s work in a five-part series back in August. Since then the series, now a full documentary, has been viewed over 3.5 […]
Indulging our inner narcissist, the next big idea in wearable technology isn’t a smart phone for your wrist but a personal drone designed to take selfies. Meet a new breed of personal quadcopter designed to be worn like a watch. The Nixie, a current project competing in Intel’s Make It Wearable Challenge, aims to allow users to have […]
Trevor Paglen, talking at Germany’s Chaos Computer Club in December 2013, presented the first video known of the RQ-170 Wraith in flight. A few months before the conference, Paglen setup his camera near Creech AFB in Nevada, to catch the aircraft making its ascent after takeoff. Paglen describes the aircraft engines like that of a “Tie […]
Baden Wuerttemberg favorite, Dr. Alexander Gerst, ESA astronaut, made this timelapse video from images taken orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station. Dr. Gerst was assigned to fly to the low earth orbit habitable satellite back in September 2011 on a six-month mission. During his time thus far, he has served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 40 […]
