Author: Braxton Taylor
U.S. and U.K. leaders are aiming to formally sign an expansive technology partnership on Thursday as part of President Donald Trump’s state visit with U.K. leadership, according to sources familiar with the planning. The details of the Tech Prosperity Deal, published on Tuesday, note that three emerging technologies will shape the partnership: artificial intelligence, quantum information sciences and technologies, and nuclear technology. Major U.S. companies — namely NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and CoreWeave — jointly committed 31 billion British pounds to support the U.K.’s AI infrastructure.Semiconductor chip manufacturing, quantum computer development and data center development are some of the core investments on…
This limited-production upper receiver from Foxtrot Mike comes built with the bare necessities for an AR-15 pattern upper receiver that will spend most of its life shooting with a suppressor. This includes a longer, rifle-length gas tube with a gas port sized to reduce back pressure and recoil when shooting with a suppressor. To keep costs down, Foxtrot Mike is not shipping these receivers with muzzle devices, bolt carrier groups or charging handles, with the idea that customers will provide their own parts that fit their specific needs. This is especially true of muzzle devices, as they’re crucial to the…
ZeroTech Optics just added a new first-focal-plane LPVO to its catalog, the new Trace ED 1-10×24 FFP. This new LPVO (low-power, variable optic) is built around a 6061 aluminum 34mm maintube and includes all of the features shooters expect in a high-end LPVO, including ED optical glass, but for a fraction of the price. In addition to the new ZeroTech Trade ED 1-10X having a first-focal-plane reticle, its illuminated RMG reticle is designed to dovetail smoothing between 1X and 10X magnification. On low magnification, the RMG reticle has thick, heavy pointed bars that the eye can pick up quickly in…
If the United States goes to war tomorrow, its Air Force will fly and fight as the world’s best. But the service will operate in a world where the assumptions that shaped it for more than 30 years no longer hold. No longer can the Air Force rely on Bagram-style air bases as sanctuaries, thanks to anti-access and area-denial capabilities developed by China and others. To deter and defeat adversaries, the service must focus on agility, adaptability, and operating with a smaller footprint in austere environments. Leaders must refine options for getting into theater to generate tempo and seize initiative. In…
Decades-old defense contractors are leaning into the Pentagon’s new focus on startups, entwining themselves with emerging companies that have the technologies or even the contracts they seek. “We’re making bets in advance on specific capabilities and then going back to the market to say, ‘Who are the founders, and who are taking novel approaches to building something that is unique and different and can be applied within a military context?’” said Brian McCarthy, Booz Allen Hamilton’s managing partner of ventures.The trend reflects the Pentagon’s new urgency to expand the military’s industrial base and bring in more tech companies. A series…
I spent some time working for a company that sold huge numbers of firearms via sites like Gunbroker and other online retailers. Part of this operation was taking photos of all the new guns that would come in so they could add them to each listing, and they had that process down to a science. Long before I worked at this particular company, I had spent years assisting and working as an advertising photographer in a major metropolitan area. I had done some pretty amazing lighting setups (the amount of strobe lighting required to get good action photos of a…
The most important thing to keep in mind when considering KelTec’s new PR57 pistol is that the cartridge for which it is chambered, 5.7x28mm, originally started life as a one-trick pony, and that trick did not involve handguns intended for concealed carry. It was not designed for expanding bullets, handguns or even semi-automatic fire, really. Its literal raison d’être was to be fired out of a small submachine gun—a PDW (personal-defense weapon) called the FN P90—with a roughly 10-inch barrel. This would have given the truck drivers, cannon cockers and helicopter mechanics of NATO armies a firearm easier to hit…
00:00:07 Speaker 1: It’s Me Podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show of conservation always wins. I am your guest host, Phil Taylor, and today we are joined by Ryan Callahan, Spencer Newhart, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, and Riva Hansen. This is normally a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. But what will it be today? Who’s to say, but there will still be a prize, with one of the players donating five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of their…
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