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Pentagon to Buy More Tethered Balloons to Watch Over Afghanistan
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsHelium-filled balloons equipped with cameras are gaining popularity with the U.S. military as a cheaper alternative to using high-flying drones in Afghanistan, and now the Pentagon plans to buy another half dozen of the tethered craft to keep watch over the Kandahar Airfield. The Pentagon has already deployed tethered aerostats -- essentially blimps tied to the ground -- to Afghanistan as part of what is called the Persistent Ground Surveillance System, which combines lighter-than-air vehicles with cameras and a ground control station. Military officials have credited the aerostats with ...
Police: Sausage Thief Wore No Pants
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsYou don't want to see how sausage gets made -- and you probably don't want to see how this sausage got stolen. Police in Florida arrested a man they say was captured on video stealing sausage naked. Investigators in Estero say Joshua Ryan Abernathy, 34, walked into the Mariner's Cove Club House nude on Jan. 7 and snatched napkins, a first-aid kit and some wieners, according to the Naples Daily News. LCSO Police say Joshua Ryan Abernathy, 34, walked nude around a clubhouse and stole sausage, napkins and a first-aid kit. A club worker told cops he found out about the burglary ...
Did NY Jewelers Hire Phony Hasidic Jews in 'Snatch'-Like Heist? [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsIt's the video they didn't want you to see. In a caper that recalls the Guy Ritchie crime film "Snatch," prosecutors say the owners of a jewelry store in New York City's Diamond District staged a fake robbery committed by perps wearing phony beards and black coats while disguised as Hasidic Jews, according to the New York Post. Store owners told police the crooks got away with $7 million in precious jewels in the New Year's Eve 2008 heist. But investigators say they've uncovered a shocking video that the store owners intended to destroy, showing the shopkeepers moving valuables out of the ...
5 Questions About the Air Force's Gorgon Stare Drone
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThe military is expected soon to send a new sensor system on its Reaper unmanned aircraft flying over Afghanistan that can keep watch over entire cities. The Air Force has even named the new "all seeing" system Gorgon Stare, after the mythological creature that could turn people into stone with her stare. But in reality, the sensor system -- which provides what is known in military nomenclature as wide-area surveillance -- works a bit more like a house fly than a monster. How does Gorgon Stare work? Key to Gorgon Stare are its nine cameras -- five that can see in daylight, and four that can ...
Smile, Your License Plate's on Town's Candid Camera
By Richard C. Paddock - AOL News
TIBURON, Calif. (Nov. 7) -- Drive a car into this affluent town on San Francisco Bay and you will be noticed. At least your license plate will. The small community of Tiburon has begun photographing and recording the license plate of every vehicle that enters or leaves town. The goal is to catch criminals in an area that already has among the lowest crime rates in the state. "We think it provides a great post-event tool for criminal investigation," Tiburon Police Chief Michael Cronin told AOL News. "Our geography limits access to the community to only two roads, giving us the opportunity to ...
New Software May Help Military Spot Terrorists
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Oct. 12) -- The U.S. military's drones flying over Afghanistan every day vacuum up reams of data, much of it in the form of full-motion video. But trying to make sense of that video, let alone pick out possible insurgent or terrorist activity, is a challenge of epic proportions. Now, a software firm working under contract to the Pentagon says it may have a way of automatically sifting through that video to pick out suspicious activity. "There's been a lot of work in the past few decades on image analysis of human faces and objects of interest," Anthony Hoogs, the director of computer ...
On Google's Birthday, Apple Takes the Cake
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- Happy 12th birthday, Google! Today you are No. 1 in our hearts but No. 2 in our newspapers. Birthday cake doodle aside, it's the more fruit-themed of the two tech companies that really has something to celebrate today. According to a 13-month study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, over the past year the always trendy Apple garnered 15.1 percent of all technology stories in the news, edging out the 11.4 percent of coverage generated by Google. The study, which surveyed selected news outlets from June 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, focuses on ...
Runaway Drone Violated Capital Airspace
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsDENVER (Aug. 26) -- A military drone that was supposed to be remotely controlled broke off contact with its operators and wandered into restricted airspace around the nation's capital, the military has revealed. More than an hour into what was otherwise a normal flight, pilots remotely operating the MQ-8 Fire Scout lost contact with the unmanned helicopter on Aug. 2. The drone then traveled 23 miles away from Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland and toward Washington. Though it never reached the District of Columbia, it did cross into the National Capital Region airspace, which is ...
AP: New Al-Qaida Leader Knows US All Too Well
By not in system - AOL NewsMIAMI (Aug. 6) -- A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks. Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, has taken over a position once held by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was captured in 2003, Miami-based FBI counterterrorism agent Brian LeBlanc told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview. That puts him in regular contact with al-Qaida's senior leadership, ...
Air Force Aims to Launch 'Spy Pigeon' Drone by 2015
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 8) -- In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials often had to rely on grainy satellite photos to decide whether facilities on the ground were intended for producing weapons of mass destruction. Now imagine that instead of overhead satellite imagery -- or even high-flying unmanned aircraft -- they could send in a flock of microdrones that could actually fly right over, or even inside, such facilities. Even better, these drones -- equipped with chemical sensors that could pick up possible weapons work with near certainty -- would resemble typical birds, like pigeons, making ...
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