From Learning English, this is the Technology Report.
Researchers are using new methods to aid investigations into deadly strikes by pilotless-planes called drones. The United Nations wants independent investigations into drone attacks.
They estimate that there were 3 times as many civilian death from drones last year as the year before. But it is difficult to know the effect on civilians, because the attacks are often in likely populated areas.
A recent investigation found that drone strikes in Pakistan killed 2,000 people during the 10-year period. The information was given to the United Nations.
Scientists from Goldsmiths, University of London and SITU Research in New York are trying to learn more. They have been gathering evdence to create 3-D moving images of drone attacks. They call this process Forensic Architecture.
3D model of a drone strike in Miranshah, Pakistan, 30 March . Video still.
Susan Schuppli is the lead researcher from Goldsmiths. She says Forensic Architecture answers an important question in the debate over drones.
What this drone warfare actually produce as a kind of lethality on the ground, said Schuppli.
Ms Schuppli and her team use satellite images of places before and after an attack. They also use reports from witnesses, local maps and other information. The goal is to help investigations into drone strikes that happened in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Gaza and Somalia. The scientist identified 37 drone strikes in those areas.
The counts are certain perception that there is very little that we can know about these strikes are often take place in what we consider to be remote regions of the world, said Schuppli.
The research will be included in a United Nations report on the legality of drone operations. Kat Craig is the legal director for the charity organization Reprieve. She says the United States and other drone users have offered little information about such operations.
The entire drone program is shrouded in secrecy. There is no clarity or transparency about the targeting progress, about the decisions that they made. There is no transparency when mistakes are made, no accountability to that defect, said Craig.
Douglas Murray is the associated director of the Henry Jackson Society, a policy research group based in London. He says drones are the best choice of bad choices to try to deal with radicals and terrorists.
If you are objecting to drone strikes, then you have to, to my mind, explain how else you deal with this problem of radicals and terrorists exists in these areas. I will send forces, or you do drones strikes, or you go to do something else. What is the something else? said Murray.
The United Nations says US drone attacks on Pakistan appear to have decreased. None have been reported so far in . But the UN says, drone strikes have increased in Yemen.
And thats the Learning English Technology Report. For more technology stories, go to our website 51voa.com.
国内英语资讯:Xi stresses efforts to improve regional economic planning, industrial chains
Could Education Change Fate 教育可以改变命运吗
大千世界: 探秘宝马的未来实验室
研究:讲脏话无关阶级 还能缓解疼痛
萌神兽来牧羊:英国农民引入羊驼保护新生羊羔
体坛英语资讯:Turkey coach anger over spiker Ismailoglus identification issue
撒切尔夫人生平讣文: 政治抱负未息, 步入晚年封爵
国内英语资讯:Chinas top legislature wraps up bimonthly session
霍金: 不逃离地球 人类难以再活1000年
研究表明音乐课能增强儿童记忆力
达能在英国实行奶粉限购 防止大量流向中国
跨国婚姻大势所趋:德国先生娶法国太太,英美小姐嫁西班牙丈夫
窈窕淑女: 睡眠不足可导致发胖哦
胖子们很忧伤:萨摩亚航空公司要按乘客体重收费
钱是靠省出来的:九大省钱妙招教你这样过日子
撒切尔夫人生平讣文: 政坛路上坎坷, 无奈退归议会
食品安全重创后 肯德基又遭禽流感打击
性别避风港: 容易被忽视的女性犯罪
伊朗科学家称发明“时光机” 可预测未来8年事件
法政府各部长将在4月15日前公开财产
“雪诺”基特·哈灵顿正式加入漫威 将在《永恒族》中饰演“黑骑士”
跑酷爱好者挑战沱江出意外 从40米高处跳下后失踪
国内英语资讯:Chinese FM holds talks with Iranian Foreign Minister
H7N9禽流感跨国界传播的忧虑
开什么玩笑: 美国女吃货拨打911订中餐遭逮捕
撒切尔夫人经典名言:铁娘子由内而外的强势
25岁是个坎: 名人25岁时都在做什么
单身女生看过来:你为什么没有男朋友的20个原因
瞻望世界: 全球十大EMBA最新排名
研究:女性更善于做商业决策
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |