Digital Government
We've Been Looking at the Spread of Global Pandemics All Wrong
Researchers have been incorporating real datasets on the world air-transport network into models of disease dynamics.
Digital Government
Google Flu Trends Wildly Overestimated This Year's Flu Outbreak
A huge discrepancy occurred between Google Flu Trend and data collected by the CDC.
Modernization
Why Google Pays Apple $1 Billion a Year
As of March, something like 80 percent of Google's phone-search profits came from Apple devices.
Digital Government
National Library of Medicine Seeks User Data from Social Media
Officials want to know how people use data during emergencies and push information more effectively.
Digital Government
Did Bing Just Reveal the Location of the Secret Saudi Drone Base?
The base's hangars bear a remarkable resemblance to similar structures on other American drone outposts.
Emerging Tech
The Land of the Free: How Virtual Fences Will Transform Rural America
A USDA scientist has created a startling innovation with GPS-equipped free-range cows.
Digital Government
The brain injury data project: One soldier's story
Data from more than 10,000 brain injury patients -- including hundreds of variables and outcomes -- is being tracked in an ongoing government project that began 26 years ago.
Digital Government
Here’s the North Korea nuclear site they’re trying to hide from the world
Analysis showed a camouflage net placed over the tunnel entrance to the testing facility.
Digital Government
Can computers predict medical problems? VA thinks maybe.
An advanced ‘clinical reasoning’ system will tap the Veterans Health Administration’s vast digital archive.
Emerging Tech
Just putting bills online doesn't tell you what they mean
To aid transparency, the House should update the U.S. Code.
Cybersecurity
Commentary: Head count isn’t the answer for cyber defense
Risk-based systems, not more people, are needed to tackle the data security challenge.
Emerging Tech
Access to broadband internet is the new access to ports, rail, and electricity
"State of the Internet" report says Korea leads in high-speed access worldwide.
Digital Government
Can you predict the future by reading Twitter? The Pentagon thinks maybe.
Funding program will address information overload by sifting unstructured text.
Modernization
FBI posts Google map of bank heist photos so locals can finger the perps
The new website is aimed at deterring robberies and curbing gun violence, feds say.
Modernization
Government Printing Office to publish House bills in XML
This will make it easier to publish bills as e-books or in mobile apps.
Modernization
Facebook's new plan could make your cellphone bill disappear
The just released "voice message" feature for Facebook's Messenger app lets you add audio to your conversations.
Digital Government
Defense failed to adequately manage terabytes of Iraq war data
Lack of records frustrates veterans’ disability claims.
Modernization
A new NASA image of North Korea’s lack of electrical infrastructure
The agency's Suomi NPP spacecraft reveals the country's energy bankruptcy.
Modernization
Google nails the timing on its iOS Maps release
The tech giant released the app the same week that Apple maps made headlines for leading users astray.
Emerging Tech