New DARPA-Funded Tech Promises to Diagnose COVID-19 Through Implantable Biochip

A new mRNA diagnostic tool developed at Stanford University and funded by BARDA and DARPA is bringing implantable biochip technology closer to reality.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego

The POC (point-of-care) diagnostics market stands at about $18.8 billion globally, according to recent market trends, and is expected to grow by a third to $24.1 billion this year and projected to explode by 2024 to $46.7 billion. The main driver for these highly optimistic forecasts is the surge in healthcare technology demand brought on by the

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DARPA Launches Project CHARIOT in Bid to Shield Big Tech Profits

DARPA announces a new type of cryptography to protect the Big Tech firm profits from the dawn of quantum computers and allow backdoor access into 3 trillion internet-connected devices.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
cryptography DARPA Feature photo

The U.S. Military-Industrial complex is sprinting on a chariot to shore up the encryption space before the next era of computation upends the entire digital edifice built on semiconductors and transistors. But, the core of the effort is protecting markets for Big Tech and all of its tentacles, which stand to lose years or even decades of profits

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Microsoft’s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections

“The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come in and take whatever you want.’ It’s obviously dangerous.” — Investigative journalist Yasha Levine

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
ElectionGuard | Voting Machines

Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to “protect” American elections from interference, which it has named “ElectionGuard.” The election technology is already set to be adopted by half of voting machine manufacturers and some state governments for the 2020 general election. Though it has been heavily promoted by the

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The U.S. Military Will Have More Robots Than Humans by 2025

Armed with a budget of over $700 billion for the coming year – which will likely continue to grow over the course of Trump’s Pentagon-controlled presidency — the Pentagon’s dystopian vision for the future of the military is quickly becoming a question not of if but when.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
US Military Robots

WASHINGTON – While cyborg soldiers and fully automated weapons have long been fodder for futuristic sci-fi thrillers, they are now a reality and, if the Pentagon gets its way, will soon become the norm in the U.S. military. As Defense One reported last Thursday, the Army had just concluded a live-fire exercise using a remote-controlled ground

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DARPA Developing ‘Wide-Area Persistent Surveillance’ To Track Drones

One defense technology journalist argued that, ‘There is no good way to track the drones in the sky.’ However, that could change with a proposed scalable system that would track every unmanned aerial vehicle in an urban area.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Drone Restrictions

MINNEAPOLIS --- The same U.S. military think tank responsible for the initial development of the internet is now turning its sights to the skies as it researches ways to track drones. On Sept. 13, DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, published a request for proposals from tech firms capable of developing an “Aerial Dragnet”

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DARPA’s New Neural Implant Has A Sneaky Way Of Getting Inside Heads

Researchers implanted a “stentrode” to record activity in the brains of live sheep without having to cut open their skulls.

Mike Orcutt | MIT Technology Review
By Mike Orcutt | MIT Technology Review

DARPA is determined to develop brain-machine interface technology capable of safely and reliably recording enough information from neurons to control “high-performance prosthetic limbs” that will help amputees or people with paralysis regain lost movement. A new implantable device invented by researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia

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