Modernization
Good Timing: Twitter Will Soon Release a Two-Step Security Solution
A hack on Tuesday reported to the world that the White House had been bombed and President Obama injured.
Emerging Tech
Is it Illegal to Impersonate the Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects (or Anyone Else) on Twitter?
As copycat accounts pop up, what's right, wrong and illegal?
Digital Government
Make Way for the Human Flesh Search Engines
Human-controlled camera surveillance could just be the beginning.
Modernization
Real-Time Transit App of the Day: A Ballet of Buses in San Francisco
The SF Live Bus app adds a bit of whimsy to the highly practical world of transit arrival data.
Digital Government
The Health IT Performance Challenge
Today’s regulatory landscape requires systems that incorporate sophisticated clinical decision support.
Digital Government
Study: Google Searches Reveal Mental Health Patterns
Search terms implied that people are 24 percent less likely to consider suicide in the summer, among other seasonal fluctuations that may be useful in epidemiology for illnesses that are difficult to track.
Modernization
Streetview Hack of the Day: Animate Segments of the Road
A new site lets you turn any stretch of Streetviewed road into a hyperlapse, a timelapse with a mobile camera.
Modernization
DISA Signs Deal to Store Exabytes of Drone and Satellite Images
The sole-source contract buys storage for 'hundreds of billions' of imagery files.
Digital Government
Why Spend a Billion Dollars to Map the Human Brain?
Barack Obama announced an initiative yesterday that involves significant government investment in neuroscience. So begins the international race to understand the brain.
Digital Government
How Copyrights Suppress Innovation
Thanks to intellectual-property protections, we know 30 percent less about genetics than we otherwise would, a new paper finds.
Modernization
Aggregating Cell Phone Data in Search of the 'Pulse of the Planet'
Universal mobility patterns we haven't fully understood before could soon come into view.
Digital Government
The Diabetic's Paradox
Health self-tracking is in vogue. But is it more of a boon or a burden?
Cybersecurity
Contractor Site User Uncovered GSA Data Compromise
Agency to 'aggressively pursue' remedies from system operator IBM.
Digital Government
China, East Asia Most Vulnerable to a Superflu
Large-scale outbreak could begin near coastal Chinese regions.
Digital Government
Open Data is a '21st Century Natural Resource'
Canadian lawmaker Tony Clement is at the forefront of the country's most important IT reforms.
Emerging Tech
The Copyright Rule We Need to Repeal If We Want to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage
The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists criminals if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations.
Emerging Tech
The Best Intelligence Is Cyborg Intelligence
The best services arise from the combination of machine and human intelligences.
Emerging Tech
How the Humble Telephone Is About to Bring Internet to the Masses (Again)
And unlike dial-up, these download speeds won't stink.
Digital Government
Scientists Identify Drugs' Side Effects by Analyzing Data from Millions of Users
A team of researchers has for the first time found a side effect of a common drug combination by looking at search queries.
Emerging Tech