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Pentagon developing Artificial Intelligence that can make crucial life-or-death decisions in battle
The Department of Defense is trying to create an artificial intelligence program that can make decisions regarding life or death on the battlefield.
The new program, called In The Moment, is being led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the innovation arm of the military. Its goal is to let an AI program make the difficult decisions that military strategists are forced to grapple...
DARPA Readies Microchip Implant that can detect COVID-19, Could Hit Markets by 2021
The most significant scientific discovery since gravity has been hiding in plain sight for nearly a decade and its destructive potential to humanity is so enormous that the biggest war machine on the planet immediately deployed its vast resources to possess and control it, financing its research and development through agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Defense Advanced Research...
Implanted 'neural dust' to control your brain
University of California researchers from Berkeley have made up a concept of so-called ‘neural dust’. Extremely tiny microchips now may be implanted in the human brain.
The chips are planned to be implanted in the main body organ in order to study person’s thoughts and track psychological processes.
The scientists claim, the technology will be so tiny, a person will hardly notice...
Raytheon wins DARPA ‘science fiction’ contract for hypersonic missile
This US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) artists rendering shows the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2).
US weapons researchers are looking to develop missiles moving more than five times the speed of sound, with arms giant Raytheon getting the initial $20 million development contract. The first flight tests are expected within two to four years.
Existing ballistic missiles...
US killer robots threaten humanity
The US military has set to design killer robots.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working out drones which will be able to track and kill targets even when out of contact with their handlers.
The robots will be provided with lethal weapon systems.
The scientists are concerned with the threat and call on banning of such systems.
Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science...
Nearly all cars produced in 2015 collect private data about drivers
Almost all automobiles sold today contain systems that can potentially be compromised by hackers, a United States Senator warns, but automakers appear largely unaware of the implications, according to his report.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is calling on the world’s automobile makers to implement mandatory safeguards after his congressional inquiry revealed a widespread absence of security...
US Army Preparing Mini Drones for Urban Combat
The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has established a research and development program, known as the Fast Lightweight Autonomy Program (FLAP) which aims to develop new types of unmanned aerial vehicles—more commonly known as drones—for urban combat operations, according to the Washington Times.
DARPA is preparing to dispense several initial $5 million contracts to...
DARPA biotech division seeks ideas to solve Ebola crisis, prepare for next thing
Pentagon’s main innovation unit is looking for promising ideas that would help thwart infectious disease outbreaks, including Ebola epidemic that already claimed almost 5,000 lives out of 13,241 officially confirmed cases worldwide.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Pentagon’s research organization tasked with developing advanced military technology has announced a tender...
US hypersonic weapon mission aborted after launch
This US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) artists rendering shows the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2).
Technical complication has resulted in the termination of a mission to test a US hypersonic weapon and the destruction of the weapon itself.
The weapon, known as the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, which was developed by Sandia National Laboratory and the US Army, is part...
DARPA producing sea-floor drone pods
Artist’s rendering of the possible communications application of an upward falling payload.
The Pentagon’s research arm, DARPA, is developing robot pods that can sit at the bottom of the ocean for long stretches of time, waiting to release airborne and water-based drones to the surface upon an attack command.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently called for bids to...
DARPA project seeks hive mind for drones
The Pentagon’s research arm is launching a program to unite existing and future drones into hives, where individual autonomous aircraft will share data and operate together against targets on a battlefield – all while being controlled by one human.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced that, on April 11, it will hold a “proposer’s day” for its Collaborative...
Pentagon 'roadmap' unveils deadlier, smarter drones
Sailors move an X-47B demonstrator onto an aircraft elevator aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.
The Pentagon has unveiled its “roadmap” for future generation of unmanned vehicles, offering a glimpse into more sophisticated and lethal drones over the next 25 years.
The Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap, released last week, marks out several milestones which will see the US armed...
NASA unveils 6-foot-tall humanoid robot
NASA scientists have been secretly at work for a year on a walking, humanoid-like robot meant to evoke awe in anyone who comes across it and it looks like they’ve accomplished their mission.
Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas have released video footage of what they’re entering in a Pentagon-sponsored robotics contest later this month, and the evidence is...
DARPA designs giant foldable satellite capable of surveiling 40% of Earth
The US Department of Defense has designed a next-generation satellite capable of observing 40 percent of the Earth’s surface at any one time. The MOIRE satellite will be able to beam high-resolution images in real time from anywhere on our planet.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – the institution that comes up with new technologies for the US military – has developed the...
Lockheed Martin announces plans for SR-72 hypersonic spy drone
Aircraft experts and military aficionados have cause to rejoice now that Lockheed Martin has debuted the SR-72 unmanned spy plane, the long-awaited successor to the SR-71 Blackbird and potentially the first hypersonic craft to enter service.
Plans for the SR-72 drone were first unveiled Friday in an Aviation Week article which revealed that Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced development program...
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