Tag: darpa
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#MorningMonarchy: August 16, 2016
Hacking Soros, compromising votes and bombing the sky + this day in history w/Fiddlesticks and our song of the day by Angel Olsen on your Morning Monarchy for August 16, 2016.
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White House is Planning to Conquer Cyberspace with its “Plan X”
from journal-neo.org: In recent years, the White House has intensified its efforts to ensure its global domination trough various means, like waging cyber warfare against its political opponents. In the Middle East, Central Asia, and Ukraine, Washington is carrying out offensive cyber operations to infiltrate the social networks in these regions to gather intelligence, ensure…
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DARPA Testing Brain Implants to “Cure” Mental Disorders in Soldiers
from occupycorporatism.com: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released information on their new program Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) that will place an implant into the brain of participating patients to wirelessly monitor activity in real-time to facilitate treatments for mental illness such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression. Researchers from the…
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DARPA Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar
from wired.com: For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it’s about to get a lot more in-your-face. At the Pentagon Wednesday, the armed forces’ far-out research branch known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency showed…
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DARPA’s Microrobots Working Together To Build with Metal, Glass and Electronics
from technologyreview.com: Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy’s lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants. Dark shapes about a centimeter across move to and fro over elevated walkways: they weave around obstacles and carry small sticks. A closer look makes it clear that these busy critters are in…
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DARPA to Set Sea-based Electronic Ambushes for Enemies
from stratrisks.com: U.S. military researchers are moving forward with a program to hide ruggedized electronic devices at the bottom of the world’s oceans that when called on will float to the surface to jam, disrupt, and spy on enemy forces. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia, this week…
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Inside the Military’s New Office for Cyborgs
from stratrisks.com: The ability to link human brains to machines, create new life forms and build Star Trek-style disease detectors will be the focus of a new Defense Department office soon. The new office, named the Biological Technology Office, or BTO, will serve as a clearinghouse for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, programs…
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DARPA Going to War With Bootleg Electronics
from RT.com: The United States Department of Defense is asking engineers to develop a nearly microscopic-sized component that could be used to help identify and combat counterfeit or otherwise suspect electronic parts. DARPA — the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — published a call for proposals this week that, if all goes as planned,…
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DARPA Developing Hypersonic Plane
from blacklistednews.com: The United States military is making progress toward developing a new unmanned space plane, which it aims to begin flight-testing in 2017. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to award the first design contracts for the vehicle project — known as Experimental Spaceplane, or XS-1 — in May or thereabouts, officials…
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#Google’s robots and creeping militarization
from dailycaller.com: Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor. Google recently purchased Boston Dynamics, a robotics pioneer that produces amazing humanoid robots for the U.S. Defense Department. This development invites attention to Google’s broader military contracting ambitions — especially since Boston Dynamics is the eighth robotics company…
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Google Buys DARPA-funded Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics
from truthstreammedia.com: Google has announced that it has purchased Boston Dynamics, the engineering firm which has produced all those creepy dystopian future robots for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), such as the Big Dog (a dog robot that can throw cinder blocks with an arm coming out of its head), Cheetah (the world’s…
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DARPA Designs Giant Foldable Satellite Capable of Surveilling 40% of Earth at Once
from dailymail.co.uk: The Pentagon has designed a massive spy satellite that will dwarf any space telescope ever launched – and it point its sensitive lens back at us. The Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) will be capable of capturing 40 percent of the surface of the Earth at once. It will be able…


