DARPA

Sophia d’Antoine, a 30-year-old cybersecurity firm founder, died on Friday after being hit by a luxury SUV in New York City.

HORRIFIC

Founder of Cybersecurity Startup Dies After Being Hit by SUV

Sophia d’Antoine was walking just half a block from her Upper East Side apartment when the Land Rover hit her.

Edith Olmsted

It’s All Happening

Inside the Wild Finale of DARPA’s Simulated Drone Dogfights

Human war pilots have long been assumed to inevitably get the best of A.I. wannabes. Nothing lasts forever.

David Axe

BIG IDEAS

Musk’s Mad Science Could Take Implantable Tech Mainstream

A neuroscientist tells The Daily Beast that “the time is ripe” for a company like Neuralink to pour private money into the futuristic research field.

David Axe

I, ROBOT

The Pentagon’s Wild Plan for Mind-Controlled Drones

The U.S. military is testing a brain implant that might one day let users control drones with their minds—and for the drones to send signals back.

David Axe

‘Nimble Tech’

Pentagon Plans Citywide Drone-Catching Dragnets

It may take a drone to hunt a drone in the system that DARPA could begin testing later this year.

David Axe

Top-Secret

The Top-Secret Program to Protect POTUS

After Kennedy was assassinated, a Pentagon agency was given a top-secret assignment to protect the president. What they looked at was a lesson in the futility of perfect security. 

Sharon Weinberger

DARPA

Founder of Cybersecurity Startup Dies After Being Hit by SUV

Inside the Wild Finale of DARPA’s Simulated Drone Dogfights

Musk’s Mad Science Could Take Implantable Tech Mainstream

The Pentagon’s Wild Plan for Mind-Controlled Drones

Pentagon Plans Citywide Drone-Catching Dragnets

The Top-Secret Program to Protect POTUS

The Pentagon Wants This in Your Brain

Three Words: Self. Destructing. Drone.

Pentagon Preps for War in Space

Pentagon Drafts Jeff Bezos for Spaceship

An Amazing New Way to Fix Trauma