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DARPA

Brain with electrical currents

Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Sputnik

Long shot research won’t fix what ails US health care

By John Alic | Biosecurity

Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană gave during the launch of the NATO Science and Technology Organisation’s 2023-2043 Trends Report in Brussels on Wednesday. Photo credit: NATO news release

Will DIANA—NATO’s DARPA-style innovation hub—improve or degrade global stability?

By Marina Favaro, Ulrich Kühn, Neil C. Renic | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

The brain-computer interface is coming, and we are so not ready for it

By Paul Tullis | Disruptive Technologies, Investigative Reporting

Illustration by Matt Field.

Laboratories in the cloud

By Filippa Lentzos, Cédric Invernizzi | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photos by gloucester2gaza and Julian Hertzog via Wikimedia Commons. CY BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY 4.0. Stylized.

The United Nations and the future of warfare

By Ariel Conn | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Illustration by Matt Field.

Gene-editing on autopilot: What could go wrong?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Credit: Matt Field. Based in part on a photo by Rico Shen CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is your robot up to it? DARPA wants machines that can explain how conditions affect their own performance

By | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Megaphragma mymaripenne, a microscopic wasp. Credit: Alexey A. Polilov CC BY 4.0.

Microscopic wasps and their tiny brains could help DARPA develop “third-wave” AI

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

DARPA’s Prepare program: Preparing for what?

By Filippa Lentzos, Jez Littlewood | Biosecurity

IARPA Director Jason Matheny advances tech tools for US espionage

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Special Topics, Technology and Security

Robot to the rescue

By Gill A. Pratt | Uncategorized