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Timing Glitch in DATA Act Makes It Impossible for IGs to Meet Reporting Deadline
Agencies won't have spending reports ready until 2017, so watchdogs get extension on reviewing those reports.
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Video: Charging the Federal Government Up About Electric Vehicles
The Energy Department is developing ways to encourage adoption of electric vehicles.
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IRS Needs to Physically Secure Its Computer Rooms
An IG report finds IRS needs to update physical access procedures to restricted rooms.
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DOD Wants You to Hack the Pentagon Again and Again
The department is prepping a contract vehicle for bug bounty programs.
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DARPA transfers powerful space telescope to the Air Force
The Air Force Space Command is taking over operations of a sophisticated telescope built to survey and track space debris and satellites.
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A Computer Watched the Debates. It Thought Clinton Was Happy and Trump Was Angry and Quite Sad
Grad students built an application that "watches" the debate, captures a video frame every 5 seconds and spits out a score on how confident it was that it recognizes a set of emotions.
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Commerce taps big-data development partners
The Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service has chosen 35 companies and academic organizations to capitalize on the federal government's vast data assets.
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Incessant Consumer Surveillance Is Leaking Into Physical Stores
Retail is on its way to a future of personalized everything—even prices.
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GSA Wants a Digital Federal Staff Directory
Ideally, users could search for equivalent employees across agencies.
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Video: Inside DARPA's Space Surveillance Telescope
The telescope will keep an eye on Earth's space junk.
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Think tank: U.S. elections are far from hack-proof
Despite frequent reassurances from intelligence and security officials that the U.S. voting system can't be hacked, one cybersecurity think tank is warning that hacking the election is not only possible, but relatively easy.
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Census calls off 2017 field tests, cites funding uncertainty
Bureau officials said the decision to cancel the upcoming tests is not ideal, but it is "the best overall operation remaining amid current uncertainty" about fiscal 2017 funding.
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DOT Launches New Automated Transportation Technology Advisory Committee
The group will be tasked with informing federal policy making.
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The Percentage of Computing Jobs in the US Held by Women is Expected to Shrink
Women currently hold 24 percent of the jobs in computing.
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White House Announces Privacy Office, Official
The White House unveiled a new office focused on protecting people's information.
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Half of American Adults Are in Police Facial-Recognition Databases
Cities and states are investing in biometric scanning technology, with few laws in place to restrict what they can do with it.
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Mission Possible: A Spy Agency Builds a Tech Scout Network
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is embedding in startup incubators.
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A Computer’s Hot Take on the 2016 Election
An artificial intelligence found Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton seemed to get “happier” coverage than Donald Trump. But is that evidence of media bias? Not necessarily.
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What IARPA Knows About Your Canceled Dinner Reservation
It could predict impending disease outbreaks.
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