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MIT engineers have developed a cost-effective technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting films made from a bevy of exotic materials. It has been known that these materials outperform silicon, but the rarity and expense of using exotic materials has been cost prohibitive. The new method...

Northrop Grumman in conjunction with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced successful testing of a 100Gbps two-way data link transmission between two antennae over a 12.4 mile distance in a city environment (Los Angeles). Using this technology could enable the...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA has launched a new $1.5 billion fund to reinvent the way that we think of computers and electronics at the base level. The military is cognizant of the death of Moore's Law and are now seeking alternative designs and techniques to keep...

DARPA is gearing up for our soldiers to be able to control things with their brains. DARPA, if you have forgotten, stands for "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency." The "Next-Generation Non-Surgical Neurotechnology" part of this is about wiring the soldier into control systems without...

We have more than our fair share of automotive enthusiasts here among our computer geeks, and of course we like it when we get to see awesome automotive tech intersect with all sorts of high tech advancements. DARPA snuck out this video on Friday that is chock full of all kinds of tech that...

Back in 2004 self-driving cars were just a sci-fi dream. However, the good folks at DARPA started the Urban Challenge at an abandoned Air Force base in LA, cars were expected to move through intersections, merge into traffic, and find their own parking spaces. Based on this experience DARPA...

Everyone knows who Stephen Hawking is, how he uses a computer to speak, and this technology continues to get better day-by-day. As a matter of fact similar technologies are being implanted into prototype smartphones and glasses. Furthermore, the real long term goal is to develop brain computer...

While we hear that robots are coming to kill us all sooner or later, it seems that DARPA has taken notice of this too. Futurism is telling us that DARPA is giving $6.5M in funding to Oregon State University scientists for a 4-year project to develop a system that will allow AI to communicate...