Emerging Tech

How to get yourself noticed on Twitter by Homeland Security

The agency has compiled a list of terms as a part of its "Media Monitoring Capability Mission".

Digital Government

Big data can save health care--but at what cost to privacy?

Medical research would benefit greatly from massive, publicly shared sets of patient information.

Cybersecurity

Analysis: Cyberwarriors face a hard truth

The possibilities, and risks, are endless on the high-tech battlefield.

Digital Government

Federal officials, Hill committees probe Facebook IPO

House and Senate panels join SEC, others, in launching investigations.

Emerging Tech

Commercial rockets free up NASA resources, official says

Tuesday launch marks the start of profit-driven space flight.

Digital Government

First online immigration application now available

New ‘ELIS’ website lets visitors request extensions to stay in the country, a step toward digitizing the largely paper-based immigration process.

Cybersecurity

Phone hacking problems? Defense, intel agencies have an app for that

A download is letting soldiers and secret agents abroad make calls on popular smartphones and skirt eavesdropping adversaries.

Digital Government

Navy’s new network will cost half the previous estimates

Continuous competition after contract award will drive down costs further, official says.

Cybersecurity

Schmidt resigns from White House cyber post

Howard Schmidt, who coordinated the Obama Administration's push for cybersecurity policy and legislation, is stepping down after two-and-a-half years on the job.

Emerging Tech

Patient S3: The woman who controlled a robotic arm with her brain

15 years after she lost the ability to move her body, Cathy Hutchinson is learning how to use her brain to control a robotic arm.