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Pentagon Announces New Strategy: Rapidly Develop Cyberweapons to Attack Specific Targets

Pentagon Announces New Strategy: Rapidly Develop Cyberweapons to Attack Specific Targets | Science News | Scoop.it

The Pentagon wants cyberweapons, and it wants them fast. Deftly recognizing that cyberweapons are nothing like the materiel of physical warfare, the DoD is devising a means to fast-track and field certain cyberweapons, some of which will take only days to go from development to deployment.

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Cyborgs, Software Spies and Shadow Wars: Our 5 Years (Un)covering the Hidden Pentagon

Cyborgs, Software Spies and Shadow Wars: Our 5 Years (Un)covering the Hidden Pentagon | Science News | Scoop.it

I’d like to pretend there was some master plan, that the site you see before you crept out of our skulls fully formed. But the truth is, when Sharon Weinberger and I launched Danger Room five years ago this week, we were just winging it. We wanted to write about the things we thought were cool: the Pentagon’s super-soldier project; China’s cyborg pigeons; the Navy’s puke rays and lightning guns. So we did.

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Darpa’s Next Grand Challenge: Build Us Lifelike, Humanoid Robots

Darpa’s Next Grand Challenge: Build Us Lifelike, Humanoid Robots | Science News | Scoop.it

The Pentagon agency behind some of the most important robotics research will soon challenge experts worldwide to come up with humanoid robots that can navigate their environment and handle tools with near-Homo sapiens skill.

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Space Planes, Psyops, Secret Prisons: 9 Secret Military Programs You Shouldn’t Know

Space Planes, Psyops, Secret Prisons: 9 Secret Military Programs You Shouldn’t Know | Science News | Scoop.it

Make no mistake: The Pentagon's got plenty of secrets you probably don't even want to know about. But there are at least a handful they likely wish had stayed a bit more covert.

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