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  • LEGO Star Wars Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack Set for Kids, Now 20% Off

    The LEGO Star Wars Clone Trooper & Battle Droid Battle Pack Set is currently available for purchase on Amazon, and for plenty of good reasons. Labeled as a fun, interactive, and creative collectible gift, it is definitely something every Star Wars fan aged seven and up would love to have. This set will let your children recreate some Star Wars: The Clone Wars scenes with its buildable action toy, featuring LEGO figures, a speeder bike vehicle, accessories, and more. Packed with 4 LEGO Star Wars...
  • iPad at war: How the iPad is crucial to the Ukraine war effort

    The iPad is being used for an unusual purpose in the Ukraine-Russia conflict -- they're helping the Ukraine Air Force use modern weapons on older fighter jets. An iPad in a jet [X/OSINTtechnical] One of the problems of using older vehicles in war is that it may have the hardpoints, but not have the technical capability to pass targeting information to newer weapons. In the Ukraine conflict, it appears that one workaround involves using an iPad. The U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for...
  • A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?

    In history, as in romance, beginnings matter – so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the futureIn these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book? Is this bringing us towards the brink of a third world war, as the historian Niall Ferguson has argued? Or, as I have found myself suggesting on occasion, is the...