CONTENTS
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AUGUST 2017 I VOL 16, NO 1 I
HOW YOUR WORLD WORKS
10 The US Military’s new workhorse
Meet the Humvee’s Oshkosh replacement
North Korea: How big a threat?
Is a nuclear war coming?
New-wave agriculture
Farmers do it with apps
Sweet taste of self-steering
Automated trucks boost Brazil’s cane yields
War on aliens
Fighting for our indigenous plants
Me and my tech
Gareth Cliff tells about the tech he can’t
live without
The confident traveller
Beat check-in queues
TESTED
26 CrashBOX drone
What’s in a name?
DRIVING
74 Urban warriors
What is an urban car?
Driven: Volvo S90 D5 awd
How to Bluetooth an old car
Launches: Hyundai Tucson and Elantra Sport +
Toyota Yaris Pulse
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Cover: An enterprising Kenyan
is setting the scene for a
revolution in commercial drone
operations. This page: Full-size
aircraft don’t come any bigger
than Stratolaunch. See page 28.