Let’s play a little game; a thought experiment, if you will. Let’s say that there were no Second Amendment, that while owning guns was accepted and normal for generations, it wasn’t considered sacrosanct and thus not preserved in the Bill of Rights. Yes, for the pedantic among us, that would mean the Second Amendment would still exist; it would just forbid the quartering of troops against people’s will. Let’s not get bogged down in the details. So, with that in mind, and assuming that past gun control efforts hadn’t come to fruition any more than…

The Army, Navy and Space Force have completed the first test at sea of an experimental electronic warfare system designed to disrupt navigation data used by enemy precision weapons. The maritime version of “Hammer of the Gods” was tested off Southern California in mid-July during Project Convergence-Capstone 6, the Army’s largest experiment involving emerging battlefield technology. The military said the counter-positioning, navigation and timing system was successfully deployed, controlled and recovered during the test. The Army has not disclosed the system’s range, contractor, cost or anticipated fielding date. It also has not said whether the experiment disrupted live signals or…

The exponential increases in consumer tech — most notably in portable power stations and energy storage — will never cease to amaze me. This summer, I’ve been navigating the newness of homeownership, along with all the improvement projects (and power outages) that come with it. And for more than 2 months now, I’ve relied on the new Anker SOLIX S2000 for entire circuits around the home, along with weekend-long camping trips. For a 2kWh power station, it’s wickedly small, light, and well up to the task. At around 35 pounds and about the countertop real estate of a coffee maker, the…

Twitch is introducing new features that can be used to restrict several features from accounts, including blocking streams and messages. Credit: Image via Twitch Originally published by  Game Rant A new suite of Twitch features gives parents the power to restrict certain features, ranging from blocking certain streams to disabling DMs. The Twitch change follows a broader trend in the gaming industry focused on protecting children. The massively popular Amazon-owned streaming platform gives fans a wide variety of ways to watch their favorite streamers. Twitch’s content library has expanded far beyond its gaming origins, with many streamers using the IRL category…

The federal government is taking another look at a rule meant to keep agricultural drainage systems from drying wetlands Americans have already paid to protect. On July 24, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened a 14-day public comment period on its drain tile setback rule for federally protected wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region. The comment period closes Aug. 7. The notice asks whether the 2024 rule has worked and how the agency should calculate future setbacks. A separate entry in the federal regulatory agenda goes further, stating that the Fish and Wildlife Service plans to withdraw the rule…

Bad ideas and California go together like peanut butter and jelly. That’s especially true when the bad ideas in question are gun control. The only way the state seems to back off on anti-gun policies is if Hollywood objects, and that’s a disturbing trend, to say the least, especially since Hollywood wasn’t likely to object to a ban on Glocks and similar firearms. So, they passed it. Done is done…or would be under any other Department of Justice.Unfortunately for Gavin Newsom, Harmeet Dhillon runs the Civil Rights Division, and there’s a whole section that just…