Soldiers Smartphones

Soldiers cannot be prevented from using smartphones and social media but there has to be discipline, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said today. He said he had been advised to keep soldiers away from smartphones, but that was not possible, so best to allow it. "Social media is here to stay, soldiers will use social media. Our adversary will use soci...

Imagine your smartphone's camera, microphone and motion sensors were monitoring you for signs of illness. That's the future envisioned by scientists at the Pentagon's secretive weapons development arm, where such a system is being built to keep tabs on deployed U.S. service members.

Sometimes you never know when the opportunity for an interesting selfie will present itself.

The software could eventually allow smartphone-armed soldiers to target the location of their enemies.

Soldiers cannot be prevented from using smartphones and social media but there has to be discipline, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said today. He said he had been advised to keep soldiers away from smartphones, but that was not possible, so best to allow it. "Social media is here to stay, soldiers will use social media. Our adversary will use soci...

Imagine your smartphone's camera, microphone and motion sensors were monitoring you for signs of illness. That's the future envisioned by scientists at the Pentagon's secretive weapons development arm, where such a system is being built to keep tabs on deployed U.S. service members.

Sometimes you never know when the opportunity for an interesting selfie will present itself.

The software could eventually allow smartphone-armed soldiers to target the location of their enemies.