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State Department Wants to Build A Biometric System for Mexico
The department is currently in the market research stage.
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Veterans Affairs Has a New Chief Customer Officer
One of the chief veterans experience officer's priorities will be improving employee experience.
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Lawmakers look to block border data searches
A bipartisan group of senators and congressmen have introduced legislation to protect Americans from having their digital devices searched by border officials without a warrant.
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Veterans Calling VA's Crisis Line Can Finally Get Through. Here’s Why.
A team of techies and customer-service professionals starting tackling the problem in 2015.
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All The Things Wrong With the Web Today, According to its Inventor
He believes online privacy is a “human right” that’s being trampled.
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Trump Is Reportedly Going to Demand Foreigners Share Their Phone Passwords to Get Into the US
The new rules could apply to the majority of visitors to the U.S.
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Health Industry Needs Government Go-To for Cyber Threats, Expert Says
Increasing cyber threats to the health care sector require more federal guidance, experts told a House subcommittee.
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Old films of nuke tests offer new data today
Digitized Cold War-era films of atmospheric nuclear tests are helping recalibrate data for modern analytics.
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Is the US Ready for Police Drones Outfitted With Tasers, Tear Gas and Lethal Weapons?
A new Connecticut bill would allow officers, not civilians, to use weaponized drones.
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VA Experiments with Real-Time Dashboard of Vets' Feedback
The agency wants feedback whenever and however veterans want to send it.
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Self-Driving Cars Will Be Much Safer But a Nightmare to Insure
The technology that enables autonomy is expensive.
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Scientists Made a Cancer-Fighting Cap That Stops Tumors From Growing With Electricity
After five years, 13 percent of patients who used the cap were alive compared to 5 percent who did not.
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Why Trump should dump spreadsheets
Many agencies still create multi-billion-dollar budgets in Excel spreadsheets, making it difficult to avoid the exact kind of waste the Office of Management and Budget wants to eliminate.
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Congress Will Let Internet Providers Sell Your Data—So Rebels Devised a Way to Fool Corporations
These tools help people seed their online activity with “noise,” or random web searches and sites that obscure their true browsing habits.
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NASA official warns of 'the internet of dangerous things'
Protecting everyday life from the dangers emerging from the expansion of the internet of things requires rethinking decades-old security practices, according to a top IT official at NASA.
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Can Trump Fix Government by Running It Like a Business?
Past administrations have attempted reform by taking cues from the private sector with mixed results.
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Scientists Finally Understand Why Deep Breathing Physically Reduces Stress
It's been a head-scratcher for scientists for years.
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Congress’ Favorite Word This Week: Transparency
This week, lawmakers tackled legislation that included the words "open" and "online" as if they were playing some kind of transparency bingo game.
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Africa’s Most Valuable Startup Ecosystem is Also the Least Lucrative for Software Engineers
A land of promise for software engineers turns out to be a mirage.
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