12/04/12: Here are this last week's technology updates related to national security:
- Underwater robots smart enough to explore treacherous deep-sea terrain
- Researchers synthesize new kind of silk fiber
- Pentagon seeks EMP grenades
- Pakistan tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile
- US military train in cyber-city to prepare hack defense
- Developing robotic laser system to strip paint from aircraft
- Improving real-time 3-D image capture
- China unveils new drones
- Flexible, low-power circuits out of nano-crystals
- Suitcase DNA analysis in 25 minutes
- Cobalt discovery replaces precious metals as industrial catalyst
- Breakthrough offers new route to large-scale quantum computing
- Aquatic robot snake
- New computerized approach could revolutionize design and manufacturing
- Put a lab on a chip
- Point and click rifle aims and shoots by itself
- New device hides on cue from infrared cameras
- Squirrels and birds inspire researchers to create deceptive robots
- iRobot founder now building tiny hovering drone spies

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