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Ivins stood to gain financially from anthrax scare
Bruce E. Ivins, the government biodefense scientist linked to the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, stood to gain financially from the huge federal spending in the fear-filled aftermath of those killings, the Los Angeles Times has learned. Ivins is listed...Tags: Vaccines, Invention and Innovation, Lawyers, U.S. Postal Service, Hospitals and Clinics
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Pentagon wants to let you bet on terrorism
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The Pentagon is looking at setting up a commodity market-style trading system in which investors would be able to bet on political or even terrorist events, such as whether terrorists could strike Israel with biological weapons. Defense...Tags: Terrorism, Yasser Arafat, Israel, Ron Wyden, Vice (movie)
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Terror futures market canceled
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - A Pentagon proposal to start a "futures" market that would have let thousands of investors wager on the likelihood of terrorist attacks or coups in the Middle East was canceled yesterday. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told...Tags: Terrorism, Yasser Arafat, Finance, Ron Wyden, Vice (movie)
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MIT develops ketchup bottle that lets you use every drop
The research institution that brought you the fax machine and GPS has come up with another potentially world-changing invention: a bottle coating so slick that every last bit of ketchup slides out quickly and easily. In what could be a disruptive...
Tags: Ketchup, Arable Farming, Google+, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research
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Paralítica utiliza su mente para mover un brazo artificial
ReutersCHICAGO, EEUU, 17 marzo (Reuters) - Utilizando sólo sus pensamientos, una paralítica de 58 años ordenó a un brazo mecánico que agarrara una taza de café y lo guiara hacia su boca para beber con una pajita, la primera vez que es capaz de beber por... -
Meet Project Hexapod: A six-legged car-straddling robot
Autoblog.comFiled under: Etc., Technology What has six legs, gas, weighs more than a ton and can walk over cars? Stompy the Rideable Hexapod, that's what. Stompy is a project envisioned by the Robotics Intensive class at Artisan's Asylum in Boston, and with your... -
Radar-evading Navy ship for sale in public auction
For sale: An exotic, once top-secret radar-evading ship, dubbed the Sea Shadow, that was built by one of the world's largest defense contractors during the height of the Cold War. Specifications: about 68 feet wide, 164 feet long and around 563 tons....
Tags: Auction Service, Defense, Museums, Christopher Johnson, E-Commerce Industry
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Pentagon releases results of 13,000-mph test flight over Pacific
The results are in from last summer’s attempt to test new technology that would provide the Pentagon with a lightning-fast vehicle, capable of delivering a military strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour. In August the Pentagon's...
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DARPA director Regina Dugan takes job as Google senior executive
Regina Dugan, who spent the past two and a half years as the first female director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), has accepted a job as senior executive at Google, a spokeswoman for the agency confirmed.
Dugan was the 19th...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Online Advertising, Science, Atlantic Ocean, Google Inc.
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Ava robot, controlled by iPad, Kinect, roams CES with ease [Video]
TechnologyiRobot's Ava, an iPad controlled, Kinect-guided testbed for the potential of robots to do everyday chores.... -
Boeing-built space plane may be spying on Chinese orbiting lab
FOX NewsThe US Air Force's top secret X-37B space plane may be spying on China's new orbiting lab, according to a report in Spaceflight magazine. While the unmanned craft was launched into Earth's orbit 10 months ago, the Air Force has kept quiet on its...Tags: Space Programs, NASA, Espionage and Intelligence, Cape Canaveral, China
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Physicists devise 'time cloak' to stop the clock
NEWS COREPentagon-supported physicists said Wednesday they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable. The laboratory device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for the merest fraction of a second an event cannot be seen,...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Cornell University, The Pentagon
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