Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Inside the race to find drugs to treat Covid-19
- Health & Pharma
- March 26, 2020, 12:17
It was Friday March 13th when doctors at the largest healthcare provider in New York City decided to take the search for a coronavirus drug into their(...)

Dominic Cummings tries to reinvent politics now that Brexit is ‘done’
- UK
- January 16, 2020, 13:46
When Boris Johnson walked through the front door of Number 10 on July 26th, 2019, the British political system was in a state of Brexit-induced paraly(...)

Elon Musk looks to wire your brain to the Internet
- Innovation
- July 17, 2019, 07:43
Elon Musk aspires to make inserting a computer connection into your brain as safe and painless as Laser eye surgery. Neuralink, a company in which Mus(...)

The billion dollar man steering Toyota into the age of self-driving cars
- Innovation
- October 19, 2017, 06:50
Dr Gill Pratt is Toyota’s billion dollar man. The quietly spoken, unassuming academic is tasked with mapping out a future for the Japanese car giant i(...)

DARPA: Looking towards technologies for 2040 and beyond
- Innovation
- May 11, 2017, 05:45
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) continues to be five steps ahead of the competition globally. Driving innovation in numerous t(...)

Microsoft goes underwater for a data centre solution
- Business
- February 8, 2016, 09:00
Taking a page from Jules Verne, researchers at Microsoft believe the future of data centres may be under the sea. Microsoft has tested a prototype of(...)

Learning to sew eased the way to winning award for life jacket design
- Business
- January 11, 2016, 09:30
Proficiency with a sewing machine is not something normally associated with 25-year-old men, but stitching is just one of the skills Kieran Normoyle (...)

Toyota hires Google’s former head of robotics
- Motors
- January 6, 2016, 11:36
Toyota has hired Google’s former head of robotics and a key executive in the search company’s driverless car efforts, as it predicted that robots coul(...)

Cantillon: beware the myth of the mighty tech men
- Technology
- August 27, 2015, 01:00
From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs and through to Elon Musk, society likes to attribute the big tech breakthroughs to a single individual. The latest s(...)

Google Wants to turn your clothes into a computer
- Technology
- June 4, 2015, 01:20
If you thought it was only a matter of time before Google tried to turn your pants into a computer, well, guess what? you were right. Last Frid(...)