Someone at DARPA ’s crying over the brilliant“Find these ten red weather balloons and we ’ll give you 40K”challenge he concoct cease bare nine hr in . It ’s what happens when you leave about MIT eccentric person and their little bribes , too .
https://gizmodo.com/darpas-giant-red-balloons-officially-at-large-5419589
The winning MIT go about the job in a brilliant way : They offered share of the prize money to anyone who reported the weather condition balloons ’ location . And what do you know ? Tips about the locations came flooding in as people saw gullible : Arizona , California , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Oregon , Tennessee , Texas and Virginia .
This challenge and the way it was acquire cash in one’s chips to remind us that a combination of the old and the new , viral run and simple moth-eaten hard hard currency , can be unvanquishable . Now permit ’s just not run off to use that oh - so - new knowledgefor anything potentially evil , please . [ Guardian ]
https://gizmodo.com/lockheed-martin-microsoft-and-darpa-to-create-militar-5383679
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