DARPA
DARPA Is Looking For The Perfect Encryption App, and It’s Willing to Pay
The blue-sky research arm of the Pentagon wants somebody to create the ultimate encrypted messaging app for the US military.
The Pentagon Wants Your Favorite Homemade Bomb Recipe to Stop a Brussels-Style Terrorist Attack
The Defense Department's research agency has quietly asked the general public to submit ideas for weaponizing "easily purchased, relatively benign technologies." There are prizes!
Robot Art Contest Seeks Machines That Can Paint Like the Masters
A new robotic challenge in the vein of DARPA's prize competitions invites people to build a robot that can paint with a brush.
The Nasal Spray that Was Supposed to Replace Sleep
What happened to Orexin-A, the wonder drug that was supposed to eliminate sleep?
Sleep Tech Will Widen the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor
“We are not used to wealthy people having a completely different biological experience of being alive."
Here’s DARPA’s Proposed Plan to Recover from a Massive Power Grid Hack
Now, they just need the technology.
DARPA Is About to Start Testing an Autonomous, Submarine-Hunting Ocean Drone
The ACTUV will be able able to spend months at sea, autonomously tracking submarines from the surface.
DARPA Gave a Company $500K to Keep Tabs on White Hat Hackers
The US government wants to figure out what security researchers are up to.
How Blowing Massive Polymer Bubbles Could Help Us Build Structures in Space
The purpose of the bubble is ultimately to create large, extremely thin metallic surfaces to use as a building material in space.
Russia Is Concerned About America's Far-Off Space Weapons
Russian military journals regularly feature articles presenting future American hypersonic weapons as an existential threat.