RED HERRING | The Pentagon’s Chatter Box: "With the aim of tackling one of the biggest obstacles in its fight against terrorists, the Pentagon’s weird science department has selected three teams to develop a decoding machine that can monitor chatter in many languages and translate any information relevant to U.S. spies into English.

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will award IBM, SRI, and BBN an estimated sum of nearly $50 million over two years to develop the equipment for use on the battlefield and elsewhere."

(Via Red Herring.)