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Radar Satellites Spying on Farms From Space Is a Taste of the Future Economy
Images are created by synthetic aperture radar can 'see' through clouds.
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Net Neutrality Officially Dies Any Day Now. It May Get a Second Life.
Public sentiment is changing faster than FCC rule-making.
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Facebook Has Revealed the Hyper-Specific Internal Rules It Uses to Police Content
The company is publishing updated “Community Standards” that spell out for users exactly what they are allowed to post, and what is forbidden.
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House Dems push to subpoena Commerce over census question
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking documentation behind a controversial decision made by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to include a citizenship question on the 2020 population survey.
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Defense Electronic Health Records Program Seeks Help Organizing Influx of Data
The Defense Health Agency wants to know if a vendor can help match all the new data it’s collecting with the old.
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The Man Who Harvested Facebook Data for Cambridge Analytica Doesn’t Think He Affected the 2016 Election
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who created the app that helped the data analysis firm obtain the personal information of millions, finally speaks out.
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Lawmakers Want Answers on FDIC Data Breaches and Stingrays
And a new bill pushes for the naming and shaming of foreign hackers and government officials who attack the U.S.
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NASA Finally Gets a New Leader
Nearly 15 months after President Trump was sworn in, the space agency has a permanent administrator.
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Defense Department is Pursuing Another Multibillion-Dollar Cloud
This cloud is focused on collaboration and business tools.
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FTC's Facebook Audit Didn't Catch Cambridge Analytica Leaks
The audit missed a lot of key information.
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Census worried about costs of late changes to 2020 survey
The Census Bureau has added a new area to its list of its major operational concerns that could affect the design or the successful implementation of the 2020 count: cost impacts of late changes.
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White House to relax rules on military drone exports
The Trump administration is looking to make it easier for allies to buy military-grade drones from U.S. firms.
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Is OPM's New Weather Policy the 'Natural Progression' of Telework?
Advocate urges careful roll-out of policy requiring remote workers to remain on the job during inclement weather.
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The Latest Trend for Tech Interviews: Days of Unpaid Homework
Some hiring managers contend that there are better ways to evaluate programmers, however.
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Facebook Attempts to Limit Reach of EU Privacy Law
About 1.5 billion Facebook users around the world could see some changes to their terms of service.
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Security Gaps Could Let Hackers Edit Government Spending Data, Watchdog Says
New and old flaws in systems at a Treasury Department bureau added up to “a significant deficiency,” according to the Government Accountability Office.
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The Resume of the Future Will Tell Employers Who You Are, And Not Just What You’ve Done
Currently, Resumes force job seekers to contort their work and life history into corporately acceptable versions of their actual selves.
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IRS Says Online Tax Systems Are Back In Business
Agency teams worked through the night to restore services, the acting administrator said.
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