Smart guns aren’t exactly a popular topic in consumer electronics. But TrackingPoint made an appearance at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show with a Wi-Fi networked sniper scope that can lock on ...

TrackingPoint, which says its smart-rifle technology can turn any rookie shooter into a crack marksman, is having that claim tested by the U.S. military. The Army has bought six fire control systems ...

A spokeswoman confirmed reports that its equipment testing specialists had acquired six TrackingPoint rifles as part of efforts to identify state-of-the-art kit. The tech allows the user to place a ...

Since first running into TrackingPoint at CES 2013, we’ve kept tabs on the Austin-based company and its Linux-powered rifles, which it collectively calls “Precision Guided Firearms,” or PGFs. We got ...

LAS VEGAS — Using Wi-Fi, two security researchers found a way to subvert a computer-aided sniper rifle. Computer security researchers Runa Sandvik and her husband Michael Auger hacked a TrackingPoint ...

LAS VEGAS, NEV.—In what’s becoming a yearly tradition for Ars, we met up with Austin-based TrackingPoint at CES to see what was new in the world of “Precision Guided Firearms”—the term the company ...

A controversial new Wi-Fi-enabled 'smart-gun' equipped with a computerized scope that enables anyone to become a master marksman goes on sale at the beginning of next week. Boasting three on-board ...

Crime is Slate’s crime blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @slatecrime. So you’ve got the urge to send some rounds downrange, but you can’t shoot and don’t want to take the time to ...

Many former TrackingPoint employees say you can spell death with three letters: BRS. TrackingPoint had a stunning product. Launched in 2011, the startup was a gun manufacturer building rifles designed ...

TrackingPoint weapons are equipped with a special scope featuring a head-up display The US Army is testing a "smart rifle" technology designed to improve the accuracy of shots. A spokeswoman confirmed ...

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