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• App Aims To Reduce Deaths From Opioid Overdose
  The UnityPhilly app alerts local volunteers to deliver naloxone when an overdose is occurring
• Why the Web Spreads Information and Misinformation Equally Well
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• Quantum Memory Milestone Boosts Quantum Internet Future
  Record efficiency in storing and retrieving quantum entanglement paves the way for connecting quantum internet nodes
• How Facebook’s AI Tools Tackle Misinformation
  Facebook’s weapons against hate speech improve their aim, identify permutations of misinformation, CTO says
• Telemedicine Comes to the Operating Room
  A new system lets surgeons consult with experts without bringing them into the OR

DARPA News RSS

• 2020/12/01 DARPA Looks to Light up Integrated Photonics with Chip-Scale Laser Development
  First demonstrated sixty years ago, the laser has become an essential technology in today's world. It has transformed diverse fields including communications, sensing, manufacturing, and medicine. More recently, innovations in integrated photonics have allowed the miniaturization of key optical components and the ability to arrange several elements on a single silicon chip. When combined with lasers, these photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have the potential to replace large and costly optical systems with chip-scale solutions. However, due to differences in the properties of the materials that compose them, lasers and PICs are difficult to combine onto the same platform, limiting the benefits of integration and preventing broad technology impact.
• 2020/12/01 Episode 36: The Hypersonic Materialist
  In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, William (Bill) Carter, a program manager since 2018 in the agency's Defense Sciences Office, recounts his scientific journey. It began with childhood wonder amidst star-blazoned New Mexico skies and high-school summer jobs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and has taken him now, literally, to leading edges of materials science and engineering.
• 2020/11/17 Teams Coordinated Robotics, BARCS, and Dynamo On Top in DARPA Subterranean Challenge Cave Circuit Virtual Competition
  The ability to communicate between multiple robots proved a key to success in the Subterranean (SubT) Challenge Cave Circuit Virtual Competition, with self-funded Coordinated Robotics topping the leaderboard and taking home a $250,000 prize using a team of nine autonomous virtual robots. DARPA-funded BARCS earned the second spot, while two other self-funded teams, Dynamo which came in third overall and Robotika, which earned a fourth place finish, will receive $150,000 and $100,000 respectively. Only self-funded teams are eligible for the monetary prizes in the Circuit events, including Cave Circuit. In the Final Event, all teams are eligible to win monetary prizes.

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03 December 2020

• WX1AW and WX4NHC will be On the Air for SKYWARN Recognition Day 2020
  03 December 2020
• Launch Window for AMSAT's RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E Opens on December 19
  03 December 2020

  The launch that will carry AMSAT’s RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E CubeSat into orbit will likely take place later this month. Virgin Orbit has announced that the launch window for their LauncherOne Launch Demo 2 mission, which will carry the AMSAT spacecraft into orbit, opens on December 19. RadFxSat-2 is the fifth and final Fox-1 satellite built by AMSAT.

  Like RadFxSat / Fox-1B (now AMSAT-OSCAR 91RadFxSat...

• ARRL to Award John Devoldere, ON4UN, Memorial Plaque for ARRL 160-Meter Contest
  03 December 2020
• FCC to Require Email Addresses on Applications
  02 December 2020

  Amateur radio licensees and candidates will have to provide the FCC with an email address on applications, effective sometime in mid-2021. If no email address is included, the FCC may dismiss the application as defective.

  The FCC is fully transitioning to electronic correspondence and will no longer print or provide wireless licensees with hard-copy authorizations or registrations by mail.

  A Repo...

• December is YOTA Month
  02 December 2020

  The month of December has been designated as YOTA month. The annual initiative sponsored by Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) initially focused on International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 1 (Europe, the Mideast, and Africa), with young radio amateurs taking to the air with YOTA-suffix call signs. YOTA (Youth on the Air) in Region 2 (the Americas) is following step, and K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A...