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The cars of the future will run on electricity, most major automakers agree on that. What they don't agree on is how soon drivers will be ready to fully embrace electric power and how aggressively to push electric cars.

A clutch of former Pentagon brass is helping to start a company that offers a new service: satellites intended solely for military communications that would be built, launched and owned by private investors.

Researchers are studying creatures that fly through the night in hopes of making tiny flying spies.

As U.S. soldiers march over the mountains of Afghanistan, they lug in backpacks contraptions that look more like model planes than military equipment: flying drones that can buzz over ridges and mountains, looking for Taliban and terrorists. The drones, which the soldiers direct with a controller that looks like a videogame, make their reports by sending back real-time video feeds.

A maker of tiny spy drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan is trying to add lethal firepower and altitude to its profitable business. Aerovironment, a Monrovia, Calif. company, set the world record for altitude in 2001, when it flew a gangly, remote-controlled, solar-powered plane with a 250-foot wingspan to 96,863 feet. The sky is dark up there, and the air is thin, just one-hundredth the density of air at sea level.

Esquire.com gets an advanced look at the Air Force roadmap to better robots - flying multi-missile hitmen, floating multi-target guidance systems, flapping suicide bombers - and how they can zero in on Al Qaeda without costing Hillary her job.