Digital cameras have transformed consumers into an army of amateur photographers, most of whom upload, tag and share photos online.

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Yet America's army and the Afghan government have collected digital records of more than 2.5m of them.

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In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.

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Over the last dozen years, the U.S. Army has spent a lot of time and money figuring out how to use digital radio technology to lift the fog of war.

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In came Monster Energy and connected Spinner with Hookit (a digital marketing platform for action sports), which decided to work with Monster to create the Monster Army Recon Tour.

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