Management

How VA Is Using Big Data to Keep Patients Out of the Hospital

Doctors combine assessment tools and analytics to address high-risk cases early.

Digital Government

Congress Lops $35 Million Off Funding for NSA Supercomputer Center

White House had requested $431 million for the 28-acre data mining facility near Baltimore.

Digital Government

Congress Tells Energy Dept. to Develop 'Exascale' Computers in 10 Years

Devices will be 1,000 times faster than today’s record holder and help with nuclear and big data analysis.

Cybersecurity

18 Months in the Slammer for Energy Supercomputer Hacker

Pennsylvania man sold access to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory high-power machines.

Cybersecurity

NSA Spends $1 Billion on Crypto – A Fraction of Total Spy Budget, Researchers Say

Only 23 percent of the black intelligence budget goes to tech for bugging other IT systems worldwide.

Digital Government

The Future of Big Data

TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé knows the evolution of data better than anyone. Here's where he thinks it's moving next.

Emerging Tech

When Will You Own Your Genetic Information?

The shuttering of a personal genome kit company raises questions about when access to DNA data will be broadened.

Modernization

Bidding Process Begins for Cancer-Curing Computer Clouds

National Cancer Institute pilot project will let researchers remotely analyze genomic data.

Modernization

Cash Is Dead. Are Credit Cards Next?

Tech start-ups across the country offer new ways for payment, which could make carrying credit cards a thing of the past.

Modernization

Supercomputer Watson Will Soon Be Available To Everyone

The initiative is IBM's attempt to get into cloud computing services to compete with the likes of Google and Amazon.

Cybersecurity

Big Data Is a Good Place for Hackers to Hide

In five to 10 years, expect attackers to game threat-detection analytics by creating bogus malicious activity.

Emerging Tech

FBI Seeks Video Recognition Technology to Automatically ID Suspects

Demonstrations of motion picture pattern-matching are set to start in December.

Modernization

Google Could Be Sending Its Data Out to Sea

Nerdy names and a patent suggest barges spotted off the U.S. coasts belong to the tech giant.

Modernization

This Time, Citizens Collect Feds’ Communications Metadata

A Verizon glitch exposed government officials' text message histories, researchers say.

Digital Government

New Technology Lets Doctors Watch Patients From Afar

Sensors gather a wealth of data for large-scale analysis.

Digital Government

The Case for Computer-Based Health Care

Doctors would still need to reassure and coach patients.

Emerging Tech

Get Ready For Data-Driven Romance

Or: How we’ll learn to stop worrying and let computers take the lead.

Digital Government

Hacked Data Brokers Could Spell Trouble for Obamacare

Health exchanges are expected to rely on information services vulnerable to identity thieves.

Modernization

IBM Calls Amazon Unprepared to Secure Intelligence Data

The companies are embroiled in a lawsuit over a $150 million contract to build a computer cloud for the CIA.

Emerging Tech

Of Mice and Mobile Apps

The government wants new technology to keep cows cool and mice under observation.