Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026
North Korea says hypersonic weapons system highlights key engineering hurdles
The Korean Central News Agency reported on 4 October that Kim Jong Un said, following what the North Korean described as test-flights of a hypersonic weapons system, that a very important technology task in the defence of the country had been conducted.
To engineers and defense technologists, the headline label...
SwitchBot’s “most accessible” housebot claim, explained in 7 parts
The term accessible humanoid housebot is pleasing to the sound of CES theater until the product description becomes more narrow. The Onero H1 concept of SwitchBot is being packaged not as a glitzy new gadget but as a gamble on what the smart home is going to become once...
2026 Readiness: Seven Space Systems the U.S. Can’t Lose
By mid-2025, China will have an operational fleet of satellites in orbit that surpasses 1,060, a number large enough to force U.S. planners to treat orbit as an operational domain that can be coerced, interrupted and contested by surprise. For U.S. Space Force in 2026, readiness is increasingly a function...
