Emerging Tech

Supermarkets Are Now Using Blockchain to Keep Food Fresh

The technology can track food throughout the complex global supply chain.

Emerging Tech

What Would Improve Data Security? 75% of Government IT Pros Say Biometrics

And nearly 90 percent say they would be more satisfied at work if their agencies invested in smart tech, according to a survey.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Make Fake News Video — and Fight It As Well

Just weeks after one research team appeared to put words in a leader’s mouth, here comes a new tool that can check questionable video for a pulse.

Digital Government

DeVos Walks Back Controversial Student Loan Contract

The department is turning its attention to providing a "truly modern loan servicing environment."

Digital Government

US Air Force Wants Robots Watching Twitter

Tomorrow’s operations will be shaped by automated analysis of the world’s open-source data, says the service’s chief of staff.

Emerging Tech

Windows 10 Users, Here's How to Increase Your Privacy

If you rely on system defaults, you may be sharing more than you realize.

Digital Government

Facial Recognition Coming to Police Body Cameras

An approach to machine learning inspired by the human brain is about to revolutionize street search.

Artificial Intelligence

How Will The Pentagon Create Its AIs? The Algorithmic-Warfare Team Is Charting a Path

Over the next 36 months, an algorithmic-warfare team will draw up a model for splitting the work between government and industry.

Digital Government

DATA Act: Agile's First Governmentwide Win

Governmentwide projects are particularly complicated, but here's one that ends on time and under budget.

Artificial Intelligence

To Improve AI, Scientists May Have to Make it Worse

Machine learning today isn’t great at knowing when it should hold on to old information, and when those data have become outdated.

Digital Government

Government Wants to Detect Bio-engineered Threats

Whether it's a lab goof or by design, the intelligence community wants to spot engineered biological organisms.

Emerging Tech

Jeff Bezos Is Crowdsourcing Ideas For Major Charity Initiative

The tech mogul is asking for ideas “at the intersection of urgent need and lasting impact.”

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Built an AI System That Learned to Lie to Get What it Wants

Humans are natural negotiators. Machines typically don’t share that affinity, but new research from Facebook’s AI research lab might offer a starting point to change that.