"We have a flight test planned for the near future where we will begin flying this particular class of weapon system."

New missile lobs nukes 5x faster than sound

Sudden Death

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.

New Missile Lobs Nukes 5x Faster Than Sound

The missile comes from a new partnership between Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.

"The idea of a magic universal 'undo' button to revert image edits is still far from reality."

Adobe built an AI to spot Photoshopped faces

Undo Button

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.

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

"We live in a world where it's becoming harder to trust the digital information we consume."

"Just as service members put on protective and tactical gear in preparation for a mission, in the future they might put on a headset containing a neural interface."

DARPA wants soldiers to control drones with their thoughts

Mind Control Drones

DARPA has officially funded a program to come up with a brain-machine interface headset that could allow soldiers to control drones with their minds.

DARPA Wants Soldiers to Control Drones With Their Thoughts

A brain-machine interface could allow service members to control "swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles."

"We should integrate it in October 2019 and hope to start testing in 2020."

DARPA: This smart contact lens could give soldiers superpowers

Smart Contact Lens

French engineering school IMT Atlantique revealed what it calls "the first stand-alone contact lens with a flexible micro battery" earlier this month.

DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers

Is this the smart contact lens DARPA has been looking for for at least a decade?

The Pentagon wants to build satellite-repairing droids

SpaceBot

DARPA announced plans to invest in space-traveling droids that could repair high-altitude satellites, which would drive down the cost of new satellites.

The Pentagon Wants to Build Satellite-Repairing Droids

Right now, high-altitude satellites have expensive redundancies in case something breaks.

"The idea is that the sounds that the shrimp create would travel to the object, reflect off of it and we would be able to detect it at our sensors."

DARPA wants to use noisy shrimp to detect enemy subs

Cocktail Sauce

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

DARPA Wants to Use Noisy Shrimp to Detect Enemy Subs

Underwater white noise could serve as natural sonar.

Voters would be able to verify that the machine actually read their votes correctly.

DARPA is building an open source voting machine

Hanging Chads

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

DARPA Is Building an Open Source Voting Machine

The goal is to make elections secure without reverting to paper ballots.

The system promises longer range and shorter response times.

US military to develop hypersonic "tactical boost glide" weapon

Tactical Boost Glide

U.S. defense contractor Raytheon just signed a $63.3 million contract with DARPA to develop a "tactical boost glide" (TBG) hypersonic weapons program.

US Military to Develop Hypersonic “Tactical Boost Glide” Weapon

The awe-inspiring missile would deliver deadly payloads at five times the speed of sound.

"Even small insects have subjective experiences, the first step towards a concept of 'consciousness.'"

DARPA wants to build conscious robots using insect brains

Enhanced Humans

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

DARPA Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains

The Pentagon thinks bugs could hold the secrets to conscious experience.

It's either a "Black Mirror" episode or a future Amazon product.

New robot dogs can deliver your lunch right to your desk

Robot Dogs with Jobs

Continental came up with a vision of the future of delivery that involves robot dogs climbing stairs and ringing doorbells.

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