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<endeca_term>Darpa</endeca_term> crowd-sources anti-submarine tactics

Darpa crowd-sources anti-submarine tactics

...anti-collision features to ensure they comply with maritime law, according to Darpa. The game will help meet the software needs for this by requiring... Read more

8 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

US plugs advanced optics into helicopter drone

...fly like helicopters rather than planes. The Hummingbirds will be equipped with Darpa's Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance-Imaging System (Argus-IS) sensor... Read more

28 December, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings

IBM 'neuron' chips mimic brain processing

...Madison. The project has been going since 2008, when US defence agency Darpa awarded $4.9m in funding. Darpa has now also given $21m (£12... Read more

18 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Probability chip start-up bought by Analog Devices

Lyric Semiconductor, which develops a novel chip architecture with hardware-based probability computation, has been acquired by analog and digital signal-processing specialist ADI Read more

15 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Packet switching inventor Paul Baran dies aged 84

...unreliable links. In 1968, the technology was adopted by MIT and the Darpa US defence research agency to create what became Arpanet, the world's... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Ben Woods
<endeca_term>DARPA</endeca_term> News Reader 3.0.5

DARPA News Reader 3.0.5

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) News Reader grabs the top stories from the DARPA and delivers them... Read more

5 March, 2011
Vehicular Networks and the Future of the Mobile Internet

Vehicular Networks and the Future of the Mobile Internet

The first DARPA experiment with wireless mobile Internet - the Packet Radio Network or PRNET - was... Read more

5 January, 2011
300 Bps Noise Robust Vocoder

300 Bps Noise Robust Vocoder

Within DARPA's Advanced Speech Encoding (ASE) program, BBN developed a series of Noise... Read more

23 October, 2010
Top-secret spy planes patrol the skies

Top-secret spy planes patrol the skies

...wings, the US government is looking at an even more ambitious project. Darpa (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) has announced that it is is developing... Read more

26 February, 2011 by Staff
Sci-fi tech that came true

Sci-fi tech that came true

...That testing follows the path of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) challenges, which pit driverless cars against one another to get from point... Read more

3 September, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn
Scary tech to put a tingle down your spine

Scary tech to put a tingle down your spine

...system. Funded by the US Army's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), BigDog was created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics and is 3-feet... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

US follows tech leaders into big data

...problem, Kaigham Gabriel, acting director of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said: "The Atlantic Ocean is roughly 350 million cubic kilometres in volume... Read more

30 March, 2012 by Jack Clark
Google: 'At scale, everything breaks'

Google: 'At scale, everything breaks'

...he worked on high-performance implementations of object-orientated languages, contributed to Darpa's national compiler infrastructure project, and developed compilers for Smalltalk and Java... Read more

22 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Unmanned planes edge closer to midair refuelling

...Research Center The midair test formed part of the $33m (£20.6m) Darpa KQ-X programme. In the "risk reduction flight test", which took place... Read more

11 March, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings
ZDNet UK's Christmas tech wish list

ZDNet UK's Christmas tech wish list

...inventor Dean Kamen — he of Segway fame — has received a wad of Darpa funding for one of his creations: Luke. Named after Luke Skywalker, who... Read more

24 December, 2010 by Staff

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

3 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

5 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

12 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

13 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

14 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

17 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

18 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

18 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

21 hours ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

21 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

22 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

1 day ago by NarayanaIyyappan on IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors
DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

1 day ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

2 days ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

2 days ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

2 days ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

3 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

3 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything