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EERIE: Pentagon Working On Project Allowing Troops to Control Military Tech — With Their Minds

Hank Berrien

The Pentagon is flirting with the idea of humans controlling machines with their minds.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, is choosing teams that will create a “neural interface” that would let troops connect to military systems using their brainwaves and also have the systems transmit back information directly to users’ brains.

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