05/18/13: Here are this week's technology updates related to national security:
- US Navy's X-47B, first unmanned jet to take off from an aircraft carrier's catapults
- Samsung claims 5G mobile data transmission breakthrough
- Google and NASA create artificial intelligence lab
- Pilotless flight trialled in UK shared airspace
- New 'smart rifle' decides when to shoot and rarely misses
- DARPA gives up on formation-flying satellites
- Laser scanner can detect someone watching you a kilometer away
- Satellites provide risk warning for Southern California fire season
- New software spots, isolates cyber-attacks to protect networked control systems
- DARPA seeks technology to radically improve dismounted squad situational awareness
- Solar panels as inexpensive as paint possible due to new research
- A new tool for radioactive contamination mapping
- A new laser paradigm: An electrically injected polariton laser
- Engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots
- Researchers develop new tool to provide radiation monitoring in Japan
- GPS data could improve tsunami early warnings
- Naturally occurring mineral for thermoelectric power generation
- Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning

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