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North Korea Claims Successful Test of Hypersonic Missile

North Korea state media claimed on Wednesday that a hypersonic nuclear-capable missile was successfully tested on Tuesday. The provocative Tuesday test-launch into the Sea of Japan was previously described by U.S., Japanese, and South Korean officials as a short-range ballistic missile.

A woman walks past a television screen showing file footage of North Korea's missile launc

DARPA Looking to Create Implant to Connect Brains and Computers

A cybernetic revolution that could quite literally change the face of human existence is the size of “two nickels stacked back to back.” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced their intent to bridge “the bio-electronic divide” with an implantable

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Twitter Just the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Pentagon Hunts Terrorists on Mysterious ‘Dark Web’

CNN’s report on the hunt for ISIS terrorists in the darkest corners of the Internet begins with a remarkably dour assessment of the war effort thus far: “After months of bombing by the U.S. and coalition forces, ISIS remains undefeated on the ground and has now entered a new phase, using the cyber-world as a weapon… It’s a trend that has captured the attention of law enforcement and now the military.”

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