Emerging Tech
Tech Companies Prep for Trump’s Infrastructure Plan—Even Without Details
Startups and blue-chip companies alike see potential business in Trump's promised infrastructure plan.
Digital Government
Watchdog: Better Data Needed to Fight Medicaid Fraud
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services oversight data needs work, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Digital Government
Facebook Poised to Become Major Player in Disaster Response
It’s been more than two years since Facebook introduced “safety check,” a tool that lets users mark themselves as “safe” after a natural disaster or other crisis.
Artificial Intelligence
A Massive AI Partnership Is Tapping Civil Rights and Economic Experts to Keep AI Safe
The Partnership is now the most high-profile, comprehensive, and mainstream organization considering how AI will shape our future.
Ideas
Congress Needs to Adopt Tech's Commercial Pace to Better Support Government Organizations
How do you predict the unpredictable?
Cybersecurity
Hackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored it on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
Many of the programmers who showed up at UCLA for the event had day jobs as IT consultants or data managers at startups.
Emerging Tech
Commerce Wants Your Thoughts on Preliminary Internet of Things Guidance
As connected devices proliferate, the internet of things could eventually "increas[e] efficiency and convenience for industry, consumers and government to improv[e] safety,” Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said in a statement.
Modernization
New 'Camouflage' Promises to Make You Unrecognizable to Facial-Recognition Tech
It exploits the way face-recognition algorithms work in order to fool them.
Digital Government
HHS Wants You to Make Easy-to-Read Privacy Label for Fitness Trackers
The end goal is a customizable privacy-notice generator for tech companies.
Ideas
Text Analysis Provides Deeper Look at Citizen Views
Analytics enable government to keep a regular pulse on its constituents, to best understand the changing needs and wants of the people.
Artificial Intelligence
Police Want to Know What Alleged Murderer’s Amazon Echo Heard, on the Night of the Crime
A reminder that our smart devices can also be used against us.
Digital Government
Obama Just Made It Harder for Trump to Create a Muslim Registry
The government is dismantling a dormant program used to track people from Muslim-majority countries.
Artificial Intelligence
Is Cybersecurity the Next Frontier for AI?
One contractor is chasing the federal market by investing more in cyber tech.
Digital Government
Agencies Continue to Struggle with DATA Act Implementation
Some agencies are on track to miss DATA Act implementation timelines.
Digital Government
Video: Social Media Giants Take on Terrorist Propaganda
These tech companies are taking a collaborative approach.
Modernization
Apple Is Using Drones to Make its Maps Better
Apple was granted permission to fly drones by the Federal Aviation Administration in March
Artificial Intelligence
Google Proved AI Can Reshape Medicine
Certain algorithms can often make a diagnosis with an accuracy on-par with medical professionals.
Cybersecurity