217 Results From "DARPA"

Researchers from the University of New Mexico believe they have found the remains of Theia buried deep beneath the lunar surface in a new paper.
Science & Energy

Fragment of Planet That Hit Earth May Be Buried Inside Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. military is developing non-invasive technology that would allow soldiers to control drones with just their brain.
Brain

The Pentagon Wants to Control Drones With Soldiers’ Brain Waves

By Kristin Houser

Silicon Valley startup Mojo Vision unveiled a working AR prototype of the Mojo Lens today, what it claims to be "the world’s first true smart contact lens."
Prosthetics and Devices

Startup Unveils Working Prototype of AR Contact Lens

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers
DARPA

DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is developing technology that could finally lead to secure voting machines. It plans to have experts from professors to hackers kick the tires.
Future Society

DARPA Is Building an Open Source Voting Machine

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Could Revolutionize Off-Planet Exploration
Mars

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Could Revolutionize Off-Planet Exploration

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA funded a research project that wants to use the noise given off by snapping shrimp and other sea life as ubiquitous sonar.
DARPA

DARPA Wants to Use Noisy Shrimp to Detect Enemy Subs

By Dan Robitzski

Using steam-filled balloons to bring satellites into orbit could prove much cheaper and more efficient than launching rockets.
Off-World

These Scientists Want to Launch Satellites From Steam Balloons

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is testing a sensor that would allow stratospheric balloons to remain in one place, possibly leading to a new military surveillance platform.
Future Society

DARPA’s Balloons Could Hover at the Edge of Space Indefinitely

By Kristin Houser

Two mysterious white objects that were spotted in the sky over Kansas City, Missouri last night turned out to be DARPA's balloons.
Future Society

UFOs Over Kansas City Turned Out to Be Something Strange

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon's emerging technologies unit put out a call last week for proposals that use insect brains to control robots.
Brain

DARPA Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains

By Jon Christian

DARPA wants contractors to develop an "air-breathing" hypersonic weapon. Now Raytheon is ready to test a missile that can travel 5x faster than sound.
DARPA

New Missile Lobs Nukes 5x Faster Than Sound

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon's AI intelligence chief sees deepfake technology as a serious threat to democracy. He called on the government to develop better safeguards.
Artificial Intelligence

Pentagon’s AI Director Calls for Stronger Deepfake Protections

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA's Subterranean Challenge is kicking off today, and robotics teams from across the nation are mapping underground environments with robots.
Robotics

These Robots Could One Day Explore Caves on Distant Planets

By Victor Tangermann

You can use a tablet screen to give instructions to this idiot-proof helicopter, which uses LIDAR and cameras to take off, land and avoid obstacles.
DARPA

You Can Fly DARPA’s Idiot-Proof Helicopter With 45 Mins of Training

By Jon Christian

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.
Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

By Dan Robitzski

Governments should step in to prevent tech companies from developing malicious, evil, super-human AI, writes tech expert Wim Naudé.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert: Governments Must Step in to Prevent Evil, Superpowered AI

By Dan Robitzski

To help us detect deepfakes, researchers are training mice to listen for the kinds of speech irregularities that can crop up in faked audio.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say Mice Could Detect Deepfakes. Seriously.

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego created a robotic contact lens that can zoom in and out when you blink.
Robotics

This Robotic Contact Lens Can Zoom in or out Just by Blinking

By Victor Tangermann

France is assembling a "red team" of sci-fi writers to help it predict what sorts of technologies it might face on the battlefield of the future.
Future Society

France Is Hiring Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Future Military Threats

By Kristin Houser

Latest

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo