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    Call it space grave robbery for a cause: Imagine scavenging defunct communication satellites for their valuable parts and recycling them to build brand new ones for cheap.

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    Millions of smartphones and other mobile devices are vulnerable to malware that can steal passwords, drain bank accounts and even eavesdrop on users. But a small tech firm funded by a Pentagon research grant has developed a program to help protect smartphones, and it can be downloaded for free.

  • DARPA announces new phase of hypersonic program

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    The Defense Department's research arm will seek proposals next month for solutions to technology hurdles in super high-speed flight with a goal of testing a full-scale hypersonic X-plane in four years.

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  • Illustration: Defense innovation by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    FENNER: Defense innovation through openness

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  • Agency releases video of hypersonic glider flight

    An unmanned glider streaks over the Pacific Ocean at 20 times the speed of sound in a video released Thursday by a U.S. defense research agency experimenting with technology that could give the military the ability to strike any part of the globe within an hour.

  • IBM pursues chips that behave like brains

    Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it's only a narrow mimicry of what the human brain is capable.

  • Contact lost with hypersonic glider after launch

    An unmanned hypersonic glider developed for U.S. defense research into super-fast global strike capability was launched atop a rocket early Thursday but contact was lost after the experimental craft began flying on its own, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said.

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    Pentagon scientists pledged to press on with work on a $308 million futuristic unmanned spaceplane despite the failure Thursday of a second test flight when they lost contact with the vehicle during maneuvers.

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