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DARPA's "Prophecy" Wants to Predict Virus Evolution to Make Drug Biz Proactive

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 74

DARPA's issued a new "funding opportunity" dubbed Prophecy--it's a program to investigate how virus evolution may be predicted, notionally to improve the way the drug business tackles health threats. But it's DARPA, so there're military issues in the mix too.READ»

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How Energy Innovations Could Be Hijacked by Foreign Investors

BY David Zax
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Secretary of Energy Steve Chu warns that the private sector lags on adopting DOE-funded research.READ»

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Won't You (Cheaply) Help DARPA Gear Up for the Coming Robopocalypse?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 92

Back in July the government identified robots as one of the R&D priorities for the 2012 budget (about a decade behind the rest of us). Now there's a research funding round to aid small business robotic's efforts, to build robot gear DARPA can't manage.READ»

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The Curious Case of USASpending.gov's Missing $1.3 Trillion

BY Austin Carr
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Watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation analyzed 10 million lines of data--and discovered trillions of dollars missing from our federal spending database.READ»

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U.S. Military Will Change the Face of Computing, One Exaflop at a Time

BY Suzy Evans
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Forget petaflops. Forget Moore's Law. The Defense Department is set to build supercomputers that are a thousand times faster than the current record holders. Scary or cool?READ»

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Banking on Eco Projects With Big Stimulus Dollars

BY Camille Ricketts
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Can stimulus dollars turn into next-generation green tech?READ»

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Your Best Hope for a Flying Car? DARPA's Pitch for a Flying Humvee

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Remember that fantastical-sounding flying car that DARPA proposed earlier this year? It isn't just a pipe dream anymore--the defense agency has released a 58-page announcement (pdf) detailing the military's vision of "a robust ...READ»

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Coming Soon: Portable Poop-Powered Nuclear Reactors?

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 81

DARPA is our favorite source for off-the-wall yet compelling technology. We've seen proposals for flying cars, handheld nuclear fusion devices, and now poop-powered nuclear reactors. It's not as crazy at seems.Wired explains that ...READ»

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Individual Health Insurance Reform Update Easy To Insure ME

BY Chad Levin
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believe health care costs will continue to rise, and 52 percent think the quality of care will go down. Further, 57 percent believe passage of the proposal currently working its way through Congress will hurt the economy. READ»

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DARPA's Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 39

In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also a little more magical than the Goodyear ...READ»

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Health Insurance Reforms Easy To Insure ME health insurance quotes

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 46

Nearly 31 percent said they thought the Democratic bills would make their personal financial situation worse, compared with 10 percent who said it would improve their family budgets. * Forty-two percent said the nation's fiscal condition would suffer because of the legislation, compared with 26 percent who said it would get better.READ»

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Health Insurance Reform EasyToInsureME FEBRUARY 5 2010

BY Chad Levin
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Despite proclaiming to focus on other issues, such as the economy and jobs, President Barack Obama injected new energy into the health insurance reform debate this week. READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Just How Big Is the Deficit?

BY Cliff Kuang
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Comparing the current deficit to those of the past 80 years.READ»

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Infographics of the Day: Obama's 2011 Budget, Cut Three Ways

BY Cliff Kuang
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Three major newspapers take a crack at visualizing Obama's new budget.READ»

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Robocalypse Alert: Defense Contract Awarded to Scary BigDog

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 33

You remember BigDog, don't you? It's that loud all-terrain prototype robot quadruped that peopled your dreams with Terminator-esque nightmares when you saw the video. DARPA just awarded a $32 million contract to build it. The ...READ»

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DARPA Wants to Build Flying Cars, Fight Cosmo G. Spacely

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 63

The U.S. military has a nagging problem: soldiers are either stuck in their land-bound Humvees or in helicopters. Not for long, if DARPA has anything to say about it. The defense agency's Transformer program aims to make sci-fi ...READ»

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Health Insurance Exchange Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 53

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), may just reach his goal of getting a health care reform package approved by the Senate by ChristmasREAD»

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Health Insurance Quotes Reform EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 68

On November 21st Senate lawmakers voted along party lines to move ahead with a floor debate over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's READ»

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Dark-Sided DARPA Dangles $40k for Crowdsourced Balloon Hunt

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has long been shrouded in mists made of equal measures of awe, mystery, controversy, and spying. Now it's strolling out of those clouds, jauntily singing a 1980s pop ditty by Nena. 99 ...READ»

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EasyToInsureME This Week in Health Reform: November 20, 2009

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 35

This week focused on the unveiling of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) proposed health care reform legislation.READ»

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Individual Health Insurance Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
Relevancy Score: 38

A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers made headlines this week in pointing out that the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform proposal, as currently outlined (approved by a 14-9 margin on October 13)READ»

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Health Insurance Reform EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
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Senate The long-awaited cost estimate of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform proposal, “America’s Healthy Future Act,” was released this week by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).READ»

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Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY EasytoinsureMe Levin
Relevancy Score: 38

This week, legislators from the Senate Finance Committee waited for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide a cost estimate for the revised health care reform bill before bringing the legislation to a committee vote, now expected to take place next week.READ»

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Individual Health Insurance Reform Weekly : EasyToInsureME : July 30th, 2009

BY Chad Levin
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The House is scheduled to leave town for summer recess on July 31, and the Senate's current schedule sends them home a week later on August 7. It will be next to impossible for the House to address individual health insurance care reform on the floor READ»

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Medicare and Early Retirement – Check Your Facts

BY Richard Cantu
Relevancy Score: 35

We've seen many cases of couples and individuals who took retirement early thinking they'd have not only Social Security, but also Medicare to help defray the expenses. READ»

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