Drone swarms… coming soon to a city near you

From Nextbigfuture: DARPA OFFSET looks to empower dismounted units by transforming how humans and autonomous swarms interact in dynamic and complex urban operations. DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) envisions swarms of 250 collaborative autonomous systems providing critical insights to small ground military …

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Las Vegas Oddities

by Chris There are lots of unexplained oddities, enough for me to know that the officials are hiding something.  Probably something embarrassing to them, of course, because that’s far and away the #1 reason for anything to be declared “sensitive” …

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Homebuilders Indeed Looking Ugly Here

by Chris Yes, I’ve been watching them for a while now.  They’ve been doing horribly, having fallen out of bed about the same time as the small caps. While the homebubblers did bounce a bit yesterday, now that’s looking sickly …

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Rob’s Model – Generalized

by Dave If you take the model Rob is talking about to its logical endpoint, then you basically have the central banks buying everything.  The price of money drops to 0%, and the central bank owns large shares of the …

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BLUE WAVE? Polarization Seems to Be Helping Republicans in Run-Up to Midterms. “Energized voters on the right dim prospects for big Democratic gains in red districts and states.”

Nate Cohn: The fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court seems to have contributed to polarizing the electorate, helping Republicans gain in red states and districts even as Democrats cement their strong position elsewhere. The trend might fade, …

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