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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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    By Rosa Golijan
  • #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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    By Chris Jacob
  • #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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    By Adam Frucci
  • #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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    By Danny Allen
  • #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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    By Rosa Golijan
  • #mainstreamtech

    Martha Stewart Discovers...The Internet?

    Martha Stewart may have 1.5 million followers on her twitter account, but to hear her do her show, it would seem like she only discovered the internet yesterday. More »
    10/02/09
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    By Jason Chen
  • #robots

    Military Car Robot Jumping 25 Feet In the Air Is Every Kid's Toy Dream

    09/15/09
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  • #uavs

    Pentagon Wants a Flying Bug: This Flapping Nano Bot is Phase One

    Last year, DARPA granted aerospace firm, Aeronvironment, a chunk of change and six-months to demonstrate a bird-sized Nano Air Vehicle (NAV). This video shows the result: the "smallest ever free-flying aircraft to hover and climb with flapping wings." More »
    08/14/09
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    By Danny Allen
  • #summermodo

    The Underwater Express Lets You Cruise In a Gigantic Gas Bubble at 100 Knots

    While most DARPA projects never materialize, the Underwater Express mini-submarine project is entering the test phase. If successful, the Underwater Express will be capable of going 100 knots—far faster than the 30 knots today's subs can muster. More »
    07/28/09
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    By Don Nguyen
  • #cyborgs

    Insect Cyborgs Could Replace Smoke Detectors, Rescue Earthquake Victims

    The Pentagon is known for its ominous pet projects, but here's one we can honestly say doesn't have us losing any sleep: Cyborg crickets. More »
    07/12/09
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    By Jack Loftus
  • #robots

    DARPA Stops Trying Not to Be Terrifying, Funds Chainsaw-Wielding, Flesh-Eating Robot

    You don't have to be tinfoil underwear type to get uneasy about some of the bizarre projects that DARPA throws its weight behind. But the organic matter-consuming EATR robot? Oh. God. More »
    07/10/09
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    By John Herrman
  • #robots

    Pentagon's Robot Hummingbird Christened "Nano Air Vehicle"

    The Pentagon's wacky sci-fi department DARPA has been working on robotic hummingbird-based drones to serve as miniature spies. They're not nearly as agile or adorable as real hummingbirds, but DARPA is well on their way to achieving that dream. More »
    07/03/09
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    By Dan Nosowitz
  • #science

    Obama Pledges 3%+ of GDP—as Much as Defense Spending—to Scientific Research

    This morning, Obama made a huge pledge to focus more money on scientific research—more than the US spent during the space race. In fact, it's almost as much as we spend on defense. More »
    04/27/09
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    By Adam Frucci
  • #polls

    The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway

    A UK for-profit firm called The Gadget Helpline surveyed 5,000 people to ferret out the industry's most confusing tech jargon. Luckily, they found most of the top 10 confusing terms are antiquated or proprietary: More »
    04/27/09
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    By Mark Wilson
  • #green

    Last Year's Model: Get Great Gadgets. And Keep Them

    That's the slogan from Last Year's Model. They believe if you buy gadgets that don't suck, you'll use them longer and not need to buy new stuff all the time—thereby going green. Seems logical. More »
    04/22/09
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    By Adrian Covert
  • #clips

    The Tech and Science Behind Little Red Riding Hood

    Little Red Riding Hood is a great story, but as a gadget nerd I need to have it presented in terms that I can truly understand. In other words—what are the specs? More »
    03/25/09
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    By Sean Fallon
  • #media

    10 Ways Tech Magazines Are Failing Readers

    Mike Elgan, former editor-in-chief for Windows Magazine, writes a great column on how gadgets blogs fail readers. It's solid feedback and tough love. Here's my list on why Tech Magazines are failing readers: More »
    03/25/09
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    By Brian Lam
  • #ohscience

    Scientists Demo Living, Remote-Control Flying Cyborg Beetles

    Berkeley University scientists demoed a remote-control Rhinoceros beetle at a conference this week, repeatedly flying the cyborgian creature into observers' faces while screaming "WE ARE GODS! WE HUNGER FOR BLOOD SACRIFICE! More »
    01/29/09
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    By John Herrman
  • #satellites

    Pentagon Mitex Satellites Are the First to Actively Spy... On Other Satellites!

    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If we're talking spy satellites, the answer this week became "U.S. satellites," two of which completed a first-of-its kind maneuver that had wide-ranging ramifications for all satellites currently in orbit. Update. More »
    01/25/09
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    By Jack Loftus
  • #kids

    Why Kids Deserve Crappy Gadgets This Holiday

    This may sound weird, but maybe the children—the future engineers, programmers and techs of our world—deserve crappy gadgets as presents this holiday. More »
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    12/22/08
    20,087
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    By Brian Lam
  • #bloodyhell

    Military Developing Blood Farming Machine, Zombie Apocalypse Coming Soon

    This looks like the beginning of a George Romero's film, but it's real. It seems like one of the US Army's X-Files technologies is coming to us sooner than most skeptics expected: DARPA is developing now a portable blood farming system that could infinitely produce universal donor red cells from umbilical cord blood, right there in the battlefield. And yes, there's exactly where things go really wrong and soldiers are transformed into mad, blood-seeking, fresh-human-biting but really lovely zombies, ready to spread some kind of weird blood disease all over the world. More »
    11/14/08
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    By Jesus Diaz
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