Tag: darpa
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12/22 defcon: planets, tweets & patents
2 earth-size planets discovered orbiting star* darpa’s new spy satellite could provide real-time video from anywhere on earth* taliban, US military waging war via twitter: report* twitter use by shabab in somalia incites US* apple wins partial victory on patent claim over android*
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10/6 defcon: nsa, b of a, acta & siri
#phonehacking: news corp faces more than 60 claims* homeland security dept puts its websites in the cloud* hayden to congress: let nsa monitor public nets for threats* bank of america website disrupted for 4th day in a row* gps inventor urges scotus to reject warrantless tracking* video: americans offered sleep-monitoring datatouch card* video: US signs…
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quantum access time travel and 9/11
DARPA conducted top secret time travel experiments under banner Project Pegasus, according to Andrew Basiago, who reveals his involvement as a child in the late sixties and early seventies. Alfred Lambremont Webre reports in an Examiner article, “Secret DARPA time travel program may hold key to understanding the deep politics of 9/11,” Basiago attests former…
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darpa to award 100yr starship seed money on 11/11/11
Why not spend your free time designing interstellar spacecraft? Andreas Tziolas, director of Project Icarus, believes your hobby could help us get to the next star. DARPA plans to award “some organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take – organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically – to send humans to…
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Internet Buzz: Doubts About DARPA Falcon HTV-2 Crash
Did the joint DARPA and US Air Force-backed HTV-2 (HyperTechnologyVehicle-2), crash into the Pacific as widely reported? Brooks Agnew interviewed Kevin Smith on X-squared radio recently.
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DARPA Shells Out $21M For IBM Cat Brain Chip
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with IBM in the third leg of its Synapse cat brain chip. That leaves one more leg, a tail, and nine lives to go.
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darpa hypersonic plane crashes nine minutes into flight
A Minataur IV rocket placed the DARPA Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2 in proper trajectory but the plane capable of Mach 20 [13,000 mph] could not be controlled, plummeting early Thursday into Pacific Ocean as reported by The Independent. The cost of the vehicle is estimated on the net anywhere from 240-320 million and you thought…
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Sun Has Largest Eruption In Four Years
NASA said on Tuesday that the sun unleashed the biggest solar flare in four years. The NOAA GOES satellite measured an X6.9 flare on August 9, 2011 at 3:48 a.m. EDT The bursts of radiation cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to harm humans on the ground, but it can disrupt GPS and communications signal, according…
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US preparing a ‘world’ for cyber war games
from inewp.com: With the help of several organizations including Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency and nearly 500 million U.S. dollars, the United States government is currently constructing a virtual platform in which the government can simulate cyber wars and its own offensive capabilities in the cyber world without touching the actual…
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onboard for 100 year starship
Director of Technology Tactical Office at DARPA, David Neyland makes recruitment pitches in search of those who want to do basic scientific research. A Universe Today article notes, “DARPA is known for its brand of ‘blue sky science’ where the scientific research they do might not have apparent and initial real-world applications.” Is the reason…
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Hologram Goggles on Drawing Board
Noah Schactman gets it right, “death-from-above-on-demand,” in Danger Room article, “Darpa’s Hologram Goggles Will Unleash Hell”. Chain of command can be a cumbersome and dangerous process in targeting and authorizing air strikes by drones.
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easy bake oven of the robot apocalypse
Navy puts scare into writers at the Danger Room with references to “programmable materials”. DARPA research includes a self-folding orgami that can turn into a small boat or plane. It may not seem threatening to have printed circuits fold into paper-like boats or planes? It’s still worrisome that DARPA believes swarms of mini-bots can mimic…
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dna ‘genetic patdown’ introduced to airports by dhs
from activist post: A new level of invasive screening is scheduled for airports this summer: a portable DNA scanner to conduct on-site, real-time genetic testing. This technology is being implemented under the cover of combating human trafficking, illegal immigration, and finding missing persons, but Richard Seldon of NetBio, creator of the scanners, clearly states that…
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Computer-Mediated Telepathy
Does this technology represent the point where man is despiritualized and assimilated? DARPA pushes Silent Talk program with four million dollar allocation, reports Danger Room.