Technology is changing the nature of battlefield. Software like artificial intelligence, is playing a bigger role. The do d's one forty billion dollar annual procurement budget is growing. Big tech already equips the armed forces and law enforcement ith things like cloud storage,. But now it's moving closer battlefield.
Rights for women and girls have regressed by decades; the economy is cratering. Yet, for many rural Afghans, things are actually better than they were before America scarpered. Silicon Valley types once righteously spurned the military-industrial establishment—now they’re queuing up to fund defence startups. And the surprising truth about the most famous scene in “Bambi”, which is turning 80.
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