DARPA: Brain hacking, freezing time & weaponized insects

DARPA, the US Military’s research arm, has revealed it’s one step closer to achieving its goal of an implantable human memory prosthesis – just one of several dystopian-sounding projects in the pipeline.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is part of the Pentagon, was set up 60 years ago in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1, with the stated goal of being “the initiator and not the victim of strategic technological surprises.”