A New 'Self-Aiming Bullet' Sounds Like a Drone for Snipers
Your frightening tech news of the day comes from The Economist, which reports that weapons designers are developing a "self-aiming bullet."
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By now, everybody realizes that the military — and what would be John Brennan's CIA — has a bunch of unmanned aerial vehicles that it uses to kill people, and it's sort of shady. But how far does the Obama administration — and, more importantly, administrations to come — plan to take this idea of drone warfare?
Your frightening tech news of the day comes from The Economist, which reports that weapons designers are developing a "self-aiming bullet."
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