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Jake Darst writes techno-thrillers at the intersection of physics, covert operations, and emerging technology. An aviator who has worked around particle accelerators and high-energy physics for years, he blends real science with high-stakes fiction.
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The Ambulance No One Saw Coming (opens the original)
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Have you heard the one about the robot who called in sick? It caught a bad virus. Before you report me to the dad joke police… That’s not the punchline. This is:It caught a bad virus, so its employer called it an ambulance.Turns out this isn’t a joke after all.Crazy as that might sound, it’s also a sign that the robotics industry is maturing. As any office manager can tell you, machines are going to break. Which means someone will have to fix them.In the case of Japan’s GMO AI & Robot
The Signal That Knows You’re There (opens the original)
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Surveillance cameras are a polarizing topic right now. People are concerned, not only about the data captured, but also about who can access it, and its legality. But what if you could be identified without a camera lens?Researchers recently demonstrated this very thing: a surveillance capability with no lens and no camera sensor. Pretty sure you already have it in your home, too. I’m talking about radio-fre
The Fighter Jet Trick That Came Back From the Dead (opens the original)
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I learned a new aviation word this week. As a pilot, that’s somewhat embarrassing. Especially when I learned it’s nothing new. In fact, it’s 72 years old.The word? Tail-sitter. It refers to an entire category of aircraft that parks vertically. Sitting on its tail.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="983" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G1Lo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_a
Military aviation just went retro (opens the original)
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At first glance, U.S. military aviation seems pretty straightforward. You have fighter jets like the F-22 Raptor, the F-35, and the Super Hornet. There are workhorses like the C-130 Hercules and its variants. The big dogs: bombers and recon aircraft. And of course, UAVs.Then, in December 2019, the U.S. formally established the Space Force, giving the military a service dedicated to operations beyond Earth's atmosphere, including space-based satellite intelligence and defense.Still, there’s one t
The Navy Wants to Email Spare Parts (opens the original)
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Last week, we talked about why DARPA can't simply download expertise into a soldier’s brain. Now a different kind of download is solving a problem militaries have battled for centuries. It’s called additive manufacturing.For centuries, making almost anything has followed the same basic process: you begin with more material than you need and cut everything away, leaving only the thing you were trying to make.Additive manufacturing flips that idea on its head. Instead of removing material, you bui
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