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Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter
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Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter

By Sara Goudarzi | May 29, 2023 Credit: Inna/Adobe In 2007, science writer and editor Sally Adee attended a technology conference for DARPA—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—when she learned about a brain surface electrical stimulation method that allegedly cut in half the time it takes a person to go from novice to expert in sharpshooting. Known as trans...

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DARPA: We’re Moving to Merge Humans and Machines

IN BRIEF The U.S. Department of Defense is researching several ways to enhance humans using technology, from strength-enhancing exoskeletons to quick-processing brain implants. With AI already proving more adept than humans at a number of tasks, merging biological and machine intelligence might be humanity’s only hope of keeping up. IF YOU CAN’T BEAT THEM… Without...