DARPA
$60M Chip That Will Connect Human Brains to Computers Is In The Works
Posted in Hardware on 31st Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
The chip is designed to translate signals sent by neurons into the ones and zeros that computers understand, and vice versa.
Implant to 'Plug' Brain into Supercomputers
Posted in Science on 22nd Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
Potential applications of the technology are vast, but in the short term DARPA is hoping to create devices for those with sight or hearing impairments.
Darpa abandons plan to launch satellites from fighter jets
Posted in Hardware on 2nd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
The scheme was launching small satellites from the belly of fighter jets already high in the atmosphere. And after a second explosion, that plan is no more.
US Military Awards New Contracts for XS-1 Space Plane
Posted in Business on 8th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
DARPA aims to build a reusable vehicle to provide 'quick, affordable and routine' access to space, which it says is ' critical for both national and economic security'.
DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform Mars
Posted in Science on 25th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
DARPA believes that it's on the way to creating organisms capable of terraforming Mars into a planet that looks more like Earth.