darpa

  • A rocket-powered bionic arm

    Engineers at Vanderbilt University have built a prosthetic arm powered by a kind of rocket motor. It's three times as strong as most other prostheses on the market.
    By Farhad Manjoo August 21, 2007

  • Shark and awe

    The Pentagon plans to put neural implants in sharks to have them serve as underwater spies -- another example of a defense budget gone mad.
    By Tom Engelhardt March 10, 2006

  • BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code

    How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to Linux.
    By Andrew Leonard May 16, 2000
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