Technology

Russia to open advanced military research agency in late 2012

September 25, 2012

Source: Pan Armenian Russia’s advanced military research agency may become operational as early as the end of 2012, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said, according to RIA Novosti. The Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry will be similar in its purpose to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the [...]

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“Super-Soldiers” Fight Disease With Bionic Implants

May 6, 2012
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The military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced plans to create nanosensors that monitor soldiers’ health on the battlefield and keep doctors constantly abreast about potential health problems. DARPA’s plan for nanosensors reflects a larger trend, as scientists are trying to harness technology to improve health care across the globe. Doctors are already [...]

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Dual-focus contact lens prototypes ordered by Pentagon

April 12, 2012

Source: BBC   The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact lenses that give users a much wider field of vision. The lenses are designed to be paired with compact heads up display (HUD) units – glasses that allow images to be projected onto their lenses. Much bulkier HUDs are already deployed by [...]

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Pentagon competition to design specialized robots that can work in disaster zones

April 9, 2012

The Pentagon’s research and development agency is to announce a competition on Tuesday to design specialized robots that can work in disaster zones while operating common tools and vehicles. And while such tasks may well inspire humanoid designs, roboticists say they may also lead to the robotic equivalent of the Minotaur — a hybrid creature [...]

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Scary Fast Surveillance System Scans 36 Million Faces a Second

March 23, 2012

Source: Gizmodo The new tech developed by Hitachi Kokusai Electric achieves super-fast speeds by processing video as it’s recorded—much like the facial recognition technology used in digital cameras. That means that once the footage is recorded, finding a face in the crowd in hours and days of recordings is a simple database search. There are [...]

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Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories

March 22, 2012

Researchers say they’ve succeeded in giving mice a “hybrid” memory that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. They forced the mice to recall memories while they were already busy forming new ones, by reactivating specific neurons in their brains. This could even represent a step towards implanting full-blown false memories. And this could mean [...]

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CYBERCOM Arming U.S. Combatant Commands

March 22, 2012

Once entirely controlled by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), offensive cyber weapons are making their way into the hands of the U.S. military’s geographic combatant commanders. The effort was alluded to by the NSA and the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) chief, Army Gen. Keith Alexander, as part of congressional testimony March 20, and confirmed [...]

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Meet The Hackers Who Sell Spies The Tools To Crack Your PC (And Get Paid Six-Figure Fees)

March 22, 2012

A team of hackers from French security firm Vupen were playing by different rules. They declined to enter Google’s contest and instead dismantled Chrome’s security to win an HP-sponsored hackathon at the same conference. And while Google paid a $60,000 award to each of the two hackers who won its event on the condition that [...]

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Spies target Taiwan’s U.S.-made defenses

March 21, 2012

Source: AP/Army Times When Taiwanese security personnel detained a suspected spy for China at a top secret military base last month, they may have had a sense of deja vu. Air force Capt. Chiang — he was identified only by his surname — was the fourth Taiwanese in only 14 months known to have been [...]

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US to fast-track cyber weapons

March 19, 2012

The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not connected to the Internet, according to current and former U.S. officials. The possibility of a confrontation with Iran or Syria has highlighted for American military planners the value of cyberweapons that [...]

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Super-Secret Google Builds Servers in the Dark

March 15, 2012

ust how far will Google go to hide its custom-built data-center hardware from the rest of the world? In one Silicon Valley data center, the company is apparently so paranoid about competitors catching a glimpse of its gear, it’s been known to keep its server cages in complete darkness, outfitting its technical staff like miners [...]

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US Military Seeks Sixth Sense Training

March 11, 2012

Source: Innovation News Daily Ordinary soldiers have sometimes shown a battlefield sixth sense that has saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the U.S. military wants to better understand that “spidey sense” and train troops to tap their inner superhero instincts. The U.S. Office of Naval Research pointed to sixth sense research about how “humans [...]

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