Published on: 2025-05-01 03:00:17
In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals in his office. The year was 1966. Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Processing Techniques Office. The agency was created in 1958 by President Eisenhower in response to the launch of Sputnik. So Taylor was in the Pentagon, a great place for acronyms
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 00:45:37
While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection. The agency — which has overseen the development of cutting-edge military technologies and out-there concepts for decades — encountered the distant signature of a SpaceX Falcon 9 reentering the atmosphere during a test in New Mexico last year. The goal of DARPA's AtmoSense program, which kicked off in la
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 14:41:59
For many people, coding is about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those precise actions repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, it's now possible for someone to describe a program in English and have the AI model translate it into working code without ever understanding how the code works. Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy recently gave this practice a name—"vibe coding"—and it's gaining traction in tech circles. The technique, enabled by large la
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 23:13:00
TL;DR: With massive investments in drone technologies, the future of air warfare looks increasingly robotic. Naval warfare is heading in a similar direction, exemplified by DARPA's new prototype vessel, the USX-1 Defiant. Last month, this 180-foot, 240-metric-ton ship made its debut in preparation for extensive testing when defense contractor Serco launched it from a Washington shipyard. It's unique in that you won't find any sailors aboard – the Defiant was designed to be a "no manning required
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which has been known to fund the development of sci-fi-sounding ideas like flying aircraft carriers or massive streetlights on the Moon — is now seeking public input on its plans to construct massive "bio-mechanical space structures." As spotted by Gizmodo, the agency filed a Request for Information this week for the eyebrow-raising concept. And while we're still not 100 percent sure exactly what they're going after, it sounds rad as hell.
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Hey so, random question, but do you have any ideas for large-scale, novel biomechanical structures that can be grown in microgravity that you’ve been sitting on? Just asking on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which put out a Request for Information (RFI) this week seeking public input on its plan to create “large bio-mechanical space structures.” DARPA, which regularly dabbles in trying to turn science fiction into science, says that it is interested in explorin
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