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Video: What Does a Robot-Run Laboratory Look Like?
There are a lot fewer coffee breaks.
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GAO: Performance.gov needs big improvements
The Performance.gov website needs greater transparency and long-term plan to improve, according to a government watchdog.
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Video: DOD’s Problem with Sole-Source Contracting
The Defense Department push to increase competition in contracting continues to struggle.
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Iran's Own Internet
The country has been blocking certain websites for more than a decade. Now, it’s creating an intranet entirely Iranian.
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HHS Posts Draft Electronic Health Record Standards
The department is collecting comments until October.
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IARPA's New 3-D Mapping Effort: Drones, Sensors and No Humans
The intelligence agency wants technology that can automatically recreate a geographic scene, including buildings, from sensor data.
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Report: If DOD Doesn't Embrace Open Source, It'll 'Be Left Behind'
Currently, the department uses open source software “infrequently and on an ad hoc basis,” unlike tech companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook that wouldn’t exist without open source software.
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Silicon Valley May Finally Get Special Approval for Foreign Founders to Enter the US
The hardest part of building a startup for many is just arriving in the United States.
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Baltimore Police Say Aerial Surveillance Not a 'Secret Spy Program'
The department has been using technology developed for Iraq war operations on the city since January, and failed to tell the public.
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When Computers Learn Human Languages, They Also Learn Human Prejudices
This is the same kind of computer program that powers Google’s search interface, Apple’s Siri and many other kinds of software that interact with human language.
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NASA-Funded Experiment to Mimic Life on Mars Has Ended
Six people just lived on "Mars" for a whole year.
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Voting machines are critically vulnerable
The U.S. voting infrastructure is potentially easy prey for hackers because of disparate systems and inadequate security, according to a new report.
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Lawmakers want the latest on new background check agency
Two Democratic lawmakers have asked OPM for a progress report on the planned National Background Investigations Bureau.
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HHS Revises Open Gov Policy to be More Open
The agency published the fourth draft of its open government plan.
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DOD Science Board Recommends 'Immediate Action' to Counter Enemy AI
Pentagon scientists worry the U.S. could be on the losing side of a AI arms race.
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The Highest Paid Workers in Silicon Valley Are Not Software Engineers
Programming isn’t the only way to climb Silicon Valley’s career ladder
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Report: DOD must embrace open-source software
In a new report, the Center for a New American Security makes the case that DOD is failing to capitalize on the power of open-source software.
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Will the MEGABYTE Act save money?
The MEGABYTE Act enshrines key Obama administration IT initiatives into law and promises to save at least $2 billion a year on software spending -- assuming implementation goes according to plan.
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How HPCs crunch rivers of water data
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has come up with a way to use its supercomputing power to speed the sprawling data analysis associated with extremely complex public works.
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