MIT’s Implantable Nanotech Sensor Monitors for Cancer and Now Heart Attacks
Nanotech implant to monitor heart Aaron Saenz Singularity Hub Heart attacks and cancer account for nearly half of all deaths in the United States –…
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Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey
Adam Rawnsley Wired Perhaps you thought the four-legged BigDog robot wasn’t eerily lifelike enough. That’ll change soon. BigDog’s makers are working on a new quadruped…
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Immortal Micro-Organisms
Synthetic organisms like those proposed by Darpa’s BioDesign project would be equipped with a self-destruct option, but there is no guarantee they wouldn’t escape, mutate,…
Micro Drones to Fly Surveillance Missions Over The U.S.
T-Hawk “Micro Drone” Michael Edwards and Alex Thomas Activist Post and The Intel Hub In 2007, it was revealed by reporters in Texas that unmanned…
DARPA Kicks Off Mind’s Eye Program; ‘Persistent Stare, Camera-Equipped Unmanned Ground Vehicles’
image source Cryptogon Via: U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (.pdf): Ground surveillance is a mission normally performed by human assets, including Army scouts and…
Pentagon to test 2nd near-space strike craft
Weapon designed for urgent threats Shaun Waterman The Washington Times Defense Department scientists are set to conduct a second test launch next year of the…
Military wants to scan communications to find internal threats
Charley Keyes CNN Washington (CNN) — The Pentagon wants computers to see into the future — and stop crimes before they happen. As the U.S Army…
Darpa: Fuse Nerves With Robot Limbs, Make Prosthetics Feel Real
Katie Drummond Wired Controlling robotic limbs with your brain is just step one. The Pentagon eventually wants artificial arms and legs to feel and perform…
DARPA Wants to Install Transcranial Ultrasonic Mind Control Devices in Soldiers’ Helmets
Clay Dillow PopSci DARPA has been trying to crawl inside the minds of soldiers for a while now, but a new ultrasound technology could let…
Pentagon seeks anti-WikiLeaks technology
John Cook Evidently stung by the massive WikiLeaks dump of classified data about the Afghan war via a renegade Army intelligence analyst, the Pentagon is turning…
DARPA Testing Nanotech Hybrid Body and Vehicle Armor
David Crane Defense Review SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT) the leading manufacturer of single-wall and Specialty Multi-Wall (SMW™) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is manufacturing specialty multi-wall carbon…
DARPA Wants Instant, On-Demand Airstrikes, Removing Middlemen from the Bomb-Dropping Process
Clay Dillow – Popular Science Like renewing your driver’s license at the DMV or getting someone from the cable company out to your place, calling in close…
Is Military Spending Saving or Enslaving?
Michael Edwards Activist Post The latest announcement that the Pentagon’s military research division, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), has created shape-shifting robots sounds like…
Mainstream News: Shape-shifting Robots Created by Pentagon
Morphing cars and planes closer as Pentagon develops shape-shifting robot Tom Chivers – London Telegraph At the moment the tiny robot – a sheet just half…