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5G is a game changer for the military
October 4, 2022
Mobile communications systems have evolved through wireless technology innovation into 2G, 3G, and then 4G to keep pace with ever increasing voice and data traffic. 5G is the latest iteration…
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DARPA establish Quantum Computing Application Metrics, and Benchmarks for guiding progress of Quantum computers
September 26, 2022
Quantum computers shall bring power of massive parallel processing, equivalent of supercomputer to a single chip. They can consider different possible solutions to a problem simultaneously, quickly converge on the…
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Global race for 5G for connected homes, autonomous vehicles and drones, smart cities and Military
September 10, 2022
Mobile communications systems have evolved through wireless technology innovation into 2G, 3G, and then 4G to keep pace with ever-increasing voice and data traffic. Every generation of wireless technology brought…
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Massive MIMO key to delivering mobile 5G will move to extreme MIMO in 6G
September 9, 2022
The capacity of a wireless link is generally measured in bits per second per Hertz (b/s/Hz). The methods available to increase this capacity in a traditional Single Input, Single Output…
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China J-20 stealth fighter’s combat missions in the South China Sea, advancing China’s A2/AD strategy
August 22, 2022
China’s progress toward military superpower status continues to accelerate. According to the latest one, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) now ranks as the third-largest air force in the…
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Cyberbiosecurity threats, vulnerabilites and cyberbiosecurity technologies
August 16, 2022
The life sciences now interface broadly with information technology (IT) through its industrial applications in health care, agriculture, manufacturing, automation, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. The information moves between living…
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Graphene infrared (IR) photodetectors enable ultrafast and room temperature IR cameras ultrasensitive for entire spectrum, and 3D cameras
July 21, 2022
Photodetectors, also called photosensors, are sensors of light or other electromagnetic radiation. There is a wide variety of photodetectors that may be classified by mechanism of detection, such as photoelectric…
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Biohybrid robots are next revolution that incorporate living organisms into robots to optimize their performances.
July 16, 2022
Scientists have created robots of all shapes and sizes with increasing complexity in recent decades. Some robots function well on assembly lines, tightening bolts or welding together sheets of metal.…
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DARPA Ocean Of Things(OoT) to provide automatic detection of Russian and Chinese submarines and ships
July 14, 2022
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability…
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Neuroscience or Cognitive Biotechnology (CBT) increasingly being militarized and weaponized.
July 10, 2022
Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system. It is a multidisciplinary branch of biology that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developmental biology, cytology, mathematical modeling and…
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Requirement of Lunar weapons as global space race among countries to build Moon bases
June 21, 2022
There is global space race among countries to build Moon bases, harness it’s mineral resources and helium-3, fuel for future nuclear fusion power plants. Space agencies in China, Japan, Europe,…
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D-Wave’s 5000 qubit Analog quantum processor handles 1 million variables for large-scale, business-critical problems, now plans gate-based quantum computing
June 21, 2022
D-Wave is the only company selling large quantum computers. It sold its first system in 2011 . The earlier D-Wave 2X™ quantum computing system featured a 1000+ qubit quantum processor and…
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