Call of Duty: World War II reveals special 'horror mode'

The popular shooter video game franchise Call of Duty will soon release its new game focusing on the end of WWII.

The game will feature its popular zombie mode where players can shoot Nazi zombies. 

The game will allow players to experience historical battles, from the storming of Omaha Beach for the D-Day landings to the liberation of Paris.

The game focuses on a squad of soldiers from 1944 to 1945, but will also address some events from from 1940 to 1944 to establish the narrative and characters. 

The game is set during the time when the Allied forces were starting to gain strength on their march into Germany. 

The player is part of a squad that goes through occupied France, Belgium and into Germany. 

In the game, players also encounter the French resistance movement fighting for their homeland. 

While the game wont feature high-tech weapons as in previous games, the trailer reveals that players can use flamethrowers. 

Players will also be able to activate Zombie Mode, which was made popular in the 2008 game Call of Duty: World at War.

It featured a mini game called Nazi Zombies, a multiplayer game where one to four players have to fight off unlimited waves of Nazi zombies. 

Players work together to kill zombies, and gain points by injuring or killing the zombies or repairing boarded-up windows inside a bunker. 

Zombies continuously break the windows and enter, and when all the players fall, the game session ends. 

In a reveal livestream for the game, Activision revealed that the game is played as Private Ronald 'Red' Daniels,  a rookie private in the US Army, 1st Infantry Division. 

Zombies in the zombie mode from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Players work together to kill zombies, and gain points by injuring or killing the zombies or repairing boarded-up windows inside a bunker

Zombies continuously break the windows and enter, and when all the players fall, the game session ends. dailymail

Although most of the game is played as Private Daniels, there are some occasions where you play as a female French resistance fighter called Rousseau, who has a sniper and is a more skilled fighter than Daniels. 

In the campaign, there will be no health regeneration feature as in previous games, 

According to Activision, one of the missions on the campaign will include a battle in Hurtgen Forest, an old- growth forest on the German border.

Allied forces battle Germans soldiers who use tree burst bombs that explode at treetop level, shooting wooden shrapnel towards soldiers from above. 

When the battle unit is surrounded, the forest explodes around you as debris fall.  

A Normandy D-Day landing battle will also be featured, where the player's squad storms Omaha beach, conjuring images of the opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan

While the game wont feature high-tech weapons as in previous games, the trailer reveals that players can use flamethrowers. dailymail

A Normandy D-Day landing battle will also be featured, where the player's squad storms Omaha beach, conjuring images of the opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. 

The game will also feature a multiplayer mode, will will be revealed at the E3 conference in Los Angeles from June 13-15.  

The game will launch on November 3, 2017 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. 

One of the missions on the campaign will include a battle in Hurtgen Forest, an old- growth forest on the German border. Allied forces battle Germans soldiers who use tree burst bombs that explode at treetop level, shooting wooden shrapnel towards soldiers from above

Although most of the game is played as Private Daniels, there are some occasions where you play as a female French resistance fighter called Rousseau, who has a sniper and is a more skilled fighter than Daniels. CallofDuty.com/WWII

F-15E Strike Eagle Cockpit Video (HD)

Inside a South Korean submarine

 

 

Maiden flight of JF-17 two-seat fighter trainer first flight

JF-17B takes flight

A two-seat version of the JF-17/FC-1 Thunder, a warplane jointly produced by Pakistan and China, took off for its maiden flight on April 27, 2017. The idea behind the project is to develop a relatively inexpensive fighter at around $25 million per copy that can compete with the U.S.-made F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Pakistan already has dozens of single-seat JF-17s and has used them in combat, targeting insurgents in Waziristan. The Chendu-Pakistan Aeronautical Complex consortium responsible for the jet has secured limited orders in Myanmar and Nigeria.

The Thunder has better wings, a more modern Russian-designed RD-93 engine and a larger nose which can fit China’s KLJ-7 fire-control radar. It doesn’t have any stealth capability, but it’s maneuverable, fearsome—when equipped with beyond-visual-range anti-air and anti-ship missiles—and it’s cheap.

There are some differences apparent with the two-seat version, the JF-17B. It is porpoise-shaped owing to an extra fuel tank in the dorsal spine. The vertical stabilizer is larger and shallower, as IHS Jane’s pointed out, and the overall plane appears to have a slightly longer length.
 
Most likely, the JF-17B will be primarily flown as a trainer with an instructor riding in the back. But the tandem-seat variant opens up the possibility of adding a dedicated navigator, radar intercept officer or weapons officer similar to the F-15E Strike Eagle or F/A-18F Super Hornet.

Twin seats are not strictly necessary in modern fighters, but they can free up workload for surveillance, electronic warfare and attack missions. Additionally, an extra officer aboard can help in air-to-air dogfighting by providing an extra set of eyes.
Mainly, it’s functional and not too expensive—and it’s not American or dependent on supply chains extending into the United States. That’s important for Pakistan which has been trying to wean itself off dependence on U.S. military support.
Other countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America may look to the JF-17 as a practical warplane for the non-aligned world, or at least an affordable one. Now there’s a two-seat version to tag along.

#Vault7: WikiLeaks reveals CIA ‘Scribbles’ tool can track whistleblowers & foreign spies

A user manual describing a CIA project known as ‘Scribbles’ has been published by WikiLeaks, exposing the potential for the spying agency to track when documents are leaked by whistleblowers or “Foreign Intelligence Officers.”

Released as part of the whistleblowing organization’s ‘Vault 7’ series, the project is purportedly designed to allow the embedding of ‘web beacon’ tags into documents “likely to be stolen,” according to a press release from WikiLeaks.

RELEASE: "Scribble" the CIA's secret system to track leakers. Full source code and documentation included. #vault7 https://t.co/Mgph7jQkFC pic.twitter.com/5WZTYfG7pZ

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 28, 2017

Dr Martin McHugh, Information Technology Programme chair at Dublin Institute of Technology, said web beacons can be used for “bad as well as good.”
“Methods of tracking have historically been developed for our protection but have evolved to become used to track us without our knowledge,” he say.
“Web beacons typically go unnoticed. A tiny file is loaded as part of a webpage. Once this file is accessed, it records unique information about you, such as your IP address and sends this back to the creator of the beacon.”



WikiLeaks says ‘Scribbles’ uses similar technology, which suggests the CIA would have been able to see when sensitive documents are accessed by third parties, including when they’re accessed by potential whistleblowers.

RELEASE: Full source code to the CIA's anti-leak document watermarking system "Scribbles" #Vault7 #CIA https://t.co/WfSLrFf2ig pic.twitter.com/z0XmMNfBZF

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 28, 2017

WikiLeaks notes that the latest iteration of the tool is dated March 1, 2016 – indicating it was used up until at least last year – and was seemingly meant to remain classified until 2066.
The ‘Scribbles’ User Guide explains how the tool generates a random watermark for each document, inserts that watermark into the document, saves all such processed documents in an output directory, and creates a log file which identifies the watermarks inserted into each document.
Scribbles can watermark multiple documents in one batch and is designed to watermark several groups of documents.
The tool was successfully tested on Microsoft Office versions 1997-2016 and documents that are not locked forms, encrypted, or password protected.

CIA's first rule of stopping the next Manning/Snowden - don't leave CIA document tracking software on suspected source's computer pic.twitter.com/Jn3eAjw7tN

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 28, 2017

The guide notes that the program has a number of flaws.
Significantly, the watermarks were tested only with Microsoft Office applications so if the “targeted end-user” opened them with an alternative application, such as OpenOffice, they may be able to see the watermarks and URLs, potentially exposing the fact that the document is being tracked.
The tool also sometimes generates errors for temporary reasons, like when the Microsoft Office applications do not properly “clean up their resources.” To rectify this the guide advises users to close all Office applications and then run Scribbles again with the same input parameters.

Feature film: "Underground: The Julian Assange Story" now available on Amazon videohttps://t.co/tHyPLYd4Lo

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 27, 2017

Jeff Sessions on Trump saying he loved WikiLeaks: "They were putting out political information that I'm sure he valued" pic.twitter.com/ws0NcOeqOg

— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) April 28, 2017

Researcher reveals the math of time travel and says it IS possible

But don't expect a working machine anytime soon.

Since HG Wells first popularized the idea in 1885, time travel has remained a steady theme in science fiction.

But in reality, it might be more feasible than you’d think.

A physicist has created a new model that reveals, mathematically, time travel actually is possible – but scientists have yet to discover the right materials to bring a time machine to life.

‘People think of time travel as something of fiction,’ said Ben Tippett, a mathematics and physics instructor at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus.

‘And we tend to think it’s not possible because we don’t actually do it.

‘But mathematically, it is possible.’

In a recently published study, Tippett argues that space should not be divided into three dimensions, with time separated.

Instead, he says the four dimensions should be imagined simultaneously as a space-time continuum in which the different directions are connected. 

Based on Einstein’s theory, the researcher says the curvature of space-time accounts for the curved orbits of the planets.

If space-time were not curved, planets and stars would move in straight lines, he argues.

So, near a massive star, space-time geometry becomes curved, causing the straight trajectories of nearby planets to bend to follow the curvature around the star.

‘The time direction of space-time surface also shows curvature,’ Tippett says.

‘There is evidence showing the closer to a black hole we get, time moves slower. My model of a time machine uses the curved space-time – to bend time into a circle for the passengers, not in a straight line.

‘That circle takes us back in time.’

Tippetts' model describes a Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-time (or, a TARDIS). 

Tippetts' model describes a Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-time (or, a TARDIS) - though not quite like the device Dr Who fans are familiar with (pictured). Instead, it would be more of a 'bubble

This would be a ‘bubble’ of space-time geometry, which can carry its contents backward and forward through space and time along a circular path.

As it can travel at speeds faster than light, it is able to move backward in time.  

While it may be mathematically possible, though, the researcher says it’s unlikely anyone will be able to build a working time machine in the foreseeable future.

‘HG Wells popularized the term ‘time machine’ and he left people with the thought that an explorer would need a ‘machine or special box’ to actually accomplish time travel,’ Tippett says.

‘While it is mathematically feasible, it is not yet possible to build a space-time machine because we need materials – which we call exotic matter – to bend space-time in these impossible ways, but they have yet to be discovered.’ 

China launches its 1st domestically-built aircraft carrier

China has transferred its first indigenously built aircraft carrier into the water, expanding its fleet to two such vessels. The ceremony, held amid heightened tensions in the region, almost coincided with the US deployment of THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea.
The new carrier, which name is yet to be revealed, was launched on Wednesday morning in northeast China’s Dalian shipyard in Liaoning Province, Xinhua reported.
The pride of China's naval engineering was transferred from dry dock into the water at a launch ceremony that started at about 9am at the Dalian shipyard of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corp, the news agency noted.


© Knews24 / YouTube

The new carrier is slightly larger than the Liaoning, China’s first aircraft carrier, constructed by the Soviet Union as a Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier and refitted by the Chinese. The new carrier weighs 70,000 tons and is 315 meters long and 75 meters wide, South China Morning Post reported.
The carrier, however, is not expected to fully enter service until 2020, as it will reportedly take years to install all the equipment and conduct the necessary tests and trials.

The launch of the new vessel which has been referred to as CV-17 comes amid renewed tensions between North Korea and the United States in the region amid Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs.
Photos of the new vessel indicate that the ship has a ski jump and angled flight deck. Earlier reports also suggested that the ship’s hangars were built large enough to accommodate between 28 to 36 aircraft onboard.



The new ship was rolled out on the same day that the US Army began installing the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system onto a golf course in Seongju, South Korea, as a response to the North Korean threat.

Beijing has repeatedly spoken out against THAAD over fears that it will undermine its own deterrence capabilities, and previously urged Seoul and Washington to reconsider their plans.

China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier slipped into the sea for the first time on Wednesday https://t.co/g44igMfxLG

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 26, 2017

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— GlobalConflict (@Gl0balC0nflict) April 27, 2017

Russia plans to build the 'world's largest aircraft carrier'

Russia is planning to commission a new class of aircraft carrier, the Shtorm class, which could cost up to $17.5billion each and enter service by 2030

The size of three football fields

Russia has announced plans to build 'the world's biggest aircraft carrier' to take on America's Nimitz class ships.

The new Shtorm craft, known as Project 23E000E, could cost up to $17.5billion each and enter service by 2030, state media reports.

Shtorm class carries would be powered by nuclear reactors and carry up to 90 aircraft, including the newly designed T-50, the report claims.

Shtorm carriers would be equipped with nuclear propulsion, have a deck the size of three football fields, and carry up to 90 aircraft including the new T-50

Despite the Kremlin's claim that the new carrier will be the world's biggest, its specifications appear similar to the current US Nimitz class ships.

Professor Vadim Kozyulin, an expert quoted by Russian media, admits that the ship will be based on the design for new American carrier USS Gerald R Ford.

'It will be a floating airport that is accompanied by an entire squadron of ships,' Mr Kozyulin said.

The new craft will feature a deck the size of three football fields, house 4,000 crew and need specially designed docks to fit inside.

While Russia claims the craft would be the largest in the world, its current specifications appear to be similar to America's Nimitz-class

Russia currently only has one aircraft carrier at its disposal, the Admiral Kuznetsov, which was built in 1985 and is powered by steam turbines. dailymail

Catapult launch systems will mean the new carriers can deploy three aircraft a minute, like its American equivalent, rather than one per minute currently.

Those aircraft will be MiG-29K jets, Russia's current carrier-based fighter, and a specially modified naval version of the new Sukhoi PAK FA, also known by its prototype name T-50.

The new Russian craft could cost between $6.1billion and $17.5billion to manufacture, though the true cost will be higher, as they will require a lot of new infrastructure to be built before they can operate. 

At the moment Russia has only one aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, which was built under the Soviets and launched in 1985.

It can carry only 30 aircraft, is powered by steam propulsion engines, and has a complement of 1,700 crew.

America has 10 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, which are powered by nuclear reactors and carry 5,000 crew along with 90 aircraft. dailymail

By contrast America's Nimitz carriers, of which it has 10, have two nuclear-powered engines, carry around 90 aircraft and helicopters, and have a crew of 5,000.

The vessels are so large they require their own ZIP codes so that mail can be sent to those on board. dailymail

Call of Duty: WWII confirmed, full reveal next week

    Sledgehammer Games/Activision

Call of Duty is returning to its roots.

The next game in the series will highlight a first-person shooter in the middle of World War II called 'Call of Duty: WWII'.

The firm teased fans on Friday with a promotional image that revealed its plans for the game's Worldwide Reveal livestream on April 26.

When Call of Duty first hit the masses in 2003 it was set in World War II, Polygon reported.

After becoming a hit, Sledgehammer Games continued the series with similar themes set during different time periods that ranged from the 1960s to the far distant future.

The full announcement states: 'Call of Duty returns to its World War II roots with Call of Duty: WWII, developed by Sledgehammer Games. 

'More details are incoming during the game's Worldwide Reveal livestream on Wednesday, April 26 featuring Sledgehammer Games co-studio heads and founders Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield. 

'Fans will be able to tune in to get a first look at Call of Duty: WWII and get intel on the studio's vision for the game.'

When Call of Duty first hit the masses in 2003 it was set in World War II, Polygon reported. After becoming a hit, Sledgehammer Games continued the series with similar themes set during different time periods that ranged from the 1960s to the far distant future (pictured)

Since Call of Duty made its debut, some have questioned whether the violence was transcending into the real world.

However, a pair of psychologist have recently discovered that countries that play the game are some of the safest around the globe.

In a new book, titled 'Moral Combat', psychology experts Dr Patrick Markey and Dr Christopher Ferguson claim that 'the war on violent video games is wrong.' 

DOES CALL OF DUTY IMPACT PLAYERS SOCIAL BEHAVIOR?  

A pair of psychologists have spoken up to defend violent video games such as Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, claiming that they can have a positive social impact.

In a new book, titled 'Moral Combat', psychology experts Dr Patrick Markey and Dr Christopher Ferguson claim that 'the war on violent video games is wrong.'

They suggest that countries where video games are popular are some of the safest in the world.

The pair write that video games 'actually have a positive social impact for today’s youth and offer a comprehensive overview of their history, culture, and scientific research.'

They say that the British general public has been 'misled' into believing that video games are responsible for horrific acts of violence by 'picture media, politicians, and other personalities.'

In their book, the pair say that most well-adjusted children and teenagers regularly play violent video games, while never exhibiting violent behaviour in real life.

They claim that spikes in sales of violent games actually correspond with decreased rates of violent crime. 

The pair write that video games 'actually have a positive social impact for today's youth and offer a comprehensive overview of their history, culture, and scientific research.'

They say that the British general public has been 'misled' into believing that video games are responsible for horrific acts of violence by 'picture media, politicians, and other personalities.'

They claim that spikes in sales of violent games actually correspond with decreased rates of violent crime.

As evidence for their point, the psychologists compared video game sales across different nations.

Fans will be able to tune in to get a first look at Call of Duty: WWII and get intel on the studio's vision for the game during the livestream. dailymail

The pair write in their book: 'When we look at these countries, we find that, contrary to the fear that video games make society more dangerous, the opposite tends to be true. The countries that consume the most video games are among the safest nations in the world.

'In fact, the three countries with the fewest global game sales had a nearly 200 per cent higher average violent crime rate than the three countries that sold the most games.'

Statistics suggest that the Japan and North Korea are the world's biggest spenders on video games per 100,000 people.

The two countries spend almost £14million ($17million) per 100,000 citizens between them every year.

The United States is third in the list, with an average yearly spend of £4.9million ($6million) per 100,000 people.

Fourth place is taken by the United Kingdom, with £4.1million ($5million) spent per 100,000 people.

The Lilium Jet – The world's first all-electric VTOL jet

The concept of ‘flying cars’ was once restricted to the realm of science fiction. Now a German aeronautics firm has taken a big step towards making it a reality.

Lilium Aviation has successfully tested its all-electric vertical take-off-and-landing (VTOL) jet, stealing a march on rivals in the race to deliver the world's first ‘flying car.’

Propelled by its 36 jet engines, the two-seater VTOL can reach a cruising speed of 300kph (186mph) and maintain that speed for an hour on a single charge. 
 
© Lilium / YouTube 

The firm, which has backing from Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, tested the aircraft's take-off-and-landing capabilities as well as its ability to hover and perform short flights.
The test paves the way for Lilium to achieve its ultimate goal of developing an on-demand air taxi.
In a statement the company said: "We have solved some of the toughest engineering challenges in aviation to get to this point."
Lilium is not the only firm developing flying car technology, however.

AeroMobil announced Thursday that it planned to take pre-orders for the “limited first edition” of its flying cars. The Slovakian firm is confident its car – priced between €1.2mn and €1.5mn can be delivered by 2020.
Meanwhile, Yi-Hang of China is preparing to make its Ehang 184 passenger drone available for on-demand taxi rides in Dubai. The company plans to roll out the drones in July.
Airbus, German firm E-Volo and Boston-based Terrafugia have all been working on similar projects in recent years with designs ranging from rotor-based 'multicopters' to part-car, part-plane hybrids. Taxi company Uber also plans to bring together engineers at its Elevate Summit in Dallas, Texas, to discuss the future of air travel.

Russian media claim its military is now capable of neutralising US warships with electronic jamming devices

Russian media has claimed its military is now capable of neutralising US warships with electronic jamming devices.

Moscow's military chiefs are able to use 'Russian Electronic Warfare' to 'detect and neutralise any target from a ship's system and a radar, to a satellite', according to one news report.

American destroyer USS Donald Cook was effectively left helpless when a Russian plane used the technology while the vessel was in the Black Sea several years ago, the report claimed.

American destroyer USS Donald Cook was effectively left helpless when a Russian plane used the technology while the vessel was in the Black Sea several years ago, the report claimed. The alleged incident was depicted in a mocked-up simulation (pictured). dailymail

The Kremlin's military chiefs are able to use 'Russian Electronic Warfare' to 'detect and neutralise any target from a ship's system and a radar, to a satellite', according to the news show which used this graphic in its report

Front line bomber Sukhoi Su-24 flew around the ship, which the report was equipped with the latest US defence system Aegis, the newsreader announced.

The report then claims to have found an account of the incident by one of the ship's crew on social media revealing how there was 'mysticism' onboard as the ship's locating devices shut down.

'The pride of our fleet became our shame,' the crew member is reported as saying - though their identity is not revealed.

The plane had apparently been fitted out with Russia's 'latest electronic warfare complex Khibiny' which used 'powerful electronic waves to deactivate the ship's systems', the newsreader claimed.

Another part of the report includes a quote, attributed to US General Frank Gorenc, saying: 'Russian electronic weapons completely paralyse the functioning of American electronic equipment installed on missiles, aircraft and ships.'

A newsreader introducing the feature claimed Moscow's 'Russian Electronic Warfare' troops can 'detect and neutralise any target'. dailymail

The news report hails the Russian military's ability to use electronic devices in warfare

As well as showing pictures of high-tech monitoring and surveillance technology, the report also suggests 'You don’t need to have expensive weapons to win – powerful radio-electronic jamming is enough.'

The propaganda clip comes after US President Donald Trump dispatched the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to the Korean Peninsula amid rising tensions with North Korea.

Two other US aircraft carriers were yesterday reported as being ready to sail to the region.

As well as ships, the report claimed the electronic jammers can disable rockets and satellites

As well as showing pictures of high-tech monitoring and surveillance technology, the report also suggests 'You don’t need to have expensive weapons to win – powerful radio-electronic jamming is enough'

It also comes just days after Russia unveiled a new Arctic base capable of housing 150 troops and nuclear-ready aircraft.

The triangular complex, painted in the red, white and blue of the Russia's tricolor flag, has been built in remote Alexandra Land in the Franz Josef Archipelago.

While parts of the base remain top secret, military chiefs have offered a glimpse at the interior of the building.

It comes as part of Russia's largest Arctic military push since the fall of the Soviet Union and as Moscow moves to lay claim to the region's huge oil and gas reserves - believe to be worth as much as £23trillion. dailymail