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  • #weapons

    From the Dept. of Seriously?: The Pentagon's Flying Car Program is Called "Transformer"

    Huh. Last Thursday, DARPA announced a workshop for Transformer. That is, their flying car program. More »
    12/28/09
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  • #darpa

    DARPA's Balloon Challenge Over After Nine Hours

    Someone at DARPA's crying over the brilliant "Find these ten red weather balloons and we'll give you 40K" challenge he concocted ending mere nine hours in. It's what happens when you forget about MIT geeks and their little bribes, too. More »
    12/07/09
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  • #darpa

    DARPA's Giant Red Balloons Officially at Large

    Remember that DARPA balloon challenge, where the first team to find ten weather balloons wins $40,000? Well, the balloons are up in the air. If you don't have a team yet, here are some places to report a sighting. UPDATED: More »
    12/05/09
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  • #military

    DARPA's Iron Curtain Detects, Explodes RPGs From a Moving Humvee

    DARPA's created what it's calling the Iron Curtain, which is a system that mounts on top of a Humvee and takes out any rockets shot in its direction. It's pretty nuts. More »
    12/02/09
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  • #weapons

    US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

    The problem: The US Army—purveyors of all things camouflage green— thinks that spy planes are too slow to recognize remote battlegrounds. The solution: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles loaded with weaponized spy bots. The side-effect: World War III. More »
    11/17/09
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  • #tgif

    10 Human Functions We've Already Handed Over To The Machines

    One idea behind a "cyborg life" is that we look to machines to take on critical, physical roles. These 10 machines illustrate how we have already begun passing the torch on tasks we are getting to lazy to do ourselves. More »
    11/13/09
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  • #cars

    Fully Autonomous Audi TTS to Race at Mad Pikes Peak Rally Circuit

    Forget the Darpa's urban challenge. This fully automated Audi TTS—equipped with GPS, sensors, and guidance systems—is set to race on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a crazy 19.99-kilometer rally race circuit with 156 turns. More »
    11/02/09
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  • #retromodo

    The Computer that Made the Internet

    This is Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pinching the nipples of the Interface Message Processor, a ruggerized Honeywell DDP-516 Minicomputer. This box is responsible for what you are reading now, which either makes her my mom or the internet's mom or both. More »
    10/30/09
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  • #darpa

    DARPA Network Challenge: Win $40,000 by Finding 10 Red Weather Balloons

    To celebrate the Web's 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking's role in time-critical communication. It's offering $40,000 in hard cash to the first entrant who finds ten 8-foot weather balloons located at fixed locations around the U.S. More »
    10/30/09
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  • #military

    Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, and DARPA To Create Military-Friendly Internet

    Lockheed Martin is getting a $31 million contract by the US government to work on reinventing TCP/IP for a new Military Network Protocol. Also lending a hand in this effort to create a proper cyber-arsenal is Microsoft. What a team! More »
    10/16/09
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