Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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An artist’s rendering of a brain/computer interface made by Neuralink. The San Francisco-based company says it has created a device that could one day wire data links directly to the brain
Elon Musk looks to wire your brain to the Internet

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(...)

Dr Gill Pratt: “If you take the driving manual and you follow those rules precisely, you’ll often get into situations where your car will get stuck and not make any progress at all. So how do you figure that out?”
The billion dollar man steering Toyota into the age of self-driving cars

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(...)

The US military test fires an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Photograph: Ringo Chiu/AFP/Getty
DARPA: Looking towards technologies for 2040 and beyond

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) continues to be five steps ahead of the competition globally. Driving innovation in numerous t(...)

Microsoft recently placed a prototype of a self-contained data centre 30 feet under water in the Pacific Ocean. Photograph: Microsoft/NYT
Microsoft goes underwater for a data centre solution

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(...)

Kieran Normoyle: ‘By adding heat back to the body we can increase survival times and increase the likelihood of someone being rescued.’ Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography
Learning to sew eased the way to winning award for life jacket design

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 (...)

Gill Pratt, recently appointed chief executive officer of Toyota Research Institute. He will be joined by James Kuffner, former head of Google’s robotics unit
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(...)

A prototype of a driverless car in a photograph provided by Google. Yet much of the research to get us to the cusp of driverless cars has been carried out over the past 20 years with state support, in particularby the US government-funded Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
Cantillon: beware the myth of the mighty tech men

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(...)

People touch Project Jacquard fabric to control lights or computer screens at Google’s annual developers conference in San Francisco. Photograph: Glenn Chapman/AFP/Getty Images
Google Wants to turn your clothes into a computer

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(...)

The US Defense Department accidentally sent shipments of live anthrax bacteria from the Dugway Proving ground facility (above) to labs in nine US states and to a US air base in South Korea. Photograph: George Frey/Epa
US military mistakenly ships live anthrax to laboratories
  • US
  • May 28, 2015, 07:20

The US military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine US states and a US air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to (...)

The driverless Lutz Pathfinder pod vehicle. The technology has become something of a trend among Silicon Valley heavyweights. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Driverless technology edges closer to Ireland

With trials of driverless cars coming to several British cities, the UK has joined the autonomous driving revolution alongside technology giants like (...)

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