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Palmer Luckey raies $200,000,000 to genetically engineer dogs for war (dangerousminds.net)

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Palmer Luckey of Anduril is teaming with Ben Lamm of Colossal Biosciences to launch Warhound, a startup dedicated to genetically engineering and cloning dogs for service in war, police work and first responder work.

Speaking to Wired, Lamm explained that the project was twofold. One part of the project would oversee the genetic engineering and cloning of the ideal dogs for war, and the other would develop tech for them to use on battlefields.

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[–] Nobody@anarchist.nexus 99 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Palmer Luckey’s partner at Oculus died under mysterious circumstances right before the sale to Facebook.

[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Damn, I didn't know about that. Guess I have a new rabbit hole to inspect.

[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Looked into it and it doesn't really seem like mysterious circumstances. From the article I read, he was struck by a car that was already fleeing police while he was crossing a crosswalk.

https://gamesbeat.com/oculus-vr-co-founder-killed-in-crosswalk-during-high-speed-police-chase/

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 3 days ago

mark zuckerborg probably took his brain to study humans.

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Care to share more info? Couldn't find anything about it

[–] Nobody@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://www.techdigest.tv/2013/06/oculus_rift_co.html

Died in an accident involving a police chase. The Facebook deal was closed several months later.

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No information other than his name on Wikipedia, that's crazy

[–] Nobody@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 day ago

It’s been scrubbed. The story I remember was that he was blocking the Facebook sale. One mysterious accident later, the deal is back on track.