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This Calculator Will Tell You How Much that Pointless Meeting Cost You
The prototype multiplies the rough hourly rates for participants by the total scheduled meeting time. This final cost is shown to everyone on the calendar.
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HHS Wants A Way to Move Patient Data Securely
The department wants your input on APIs.
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Video: Drone Delivery Startup Hopes to Save Lives in Rwanda
A new way to bring medical supplies to remote areas.
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Past Performance A Big Deal for Alliant 2 Competitors
Potentially representing the largest IT contract of the year, its objective methodology for selecting winners is likely to make it also among the most competitive.
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Biden, Burwell call for collaboration on health data
Vice President Joe Biden calls for more open data to fuel big picture public health efforts, including the administration's "moonshot" bid to cure cancer.
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18F wants to experiment with design standards
The federal government's in-house design and usability consultancy would like sites to be clean and consistent but not necessarily uniform.
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Facebook Lost the First Round in a Battle Over the Legality of its Automatic Photo-Tagging
The judge rejected Facebook’s request to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by three Chicago Facebook users.
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White House: If Unchecked, Big Data Could Lead to Discrimination
A new report warns that algorithms might inadvertently be biased against certain populations.
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Why law enforcement agencies need to share data
Getting tools and organizations alike to share standardized data is crucial as ever-more data overwhelms law enforcement.
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White House to probe role of AI in government
The White House has announced a series of public workshops on artificial intelligence and machine learning and will explore how AI can improve the delivery of government services.
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Attention CIOs, Stay on Top of FITARA Even During Presidential Transition
OMB plans to issue new IT budget planning guidance that would “focus on empowering agency CIOs.”
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Labor Department Launches New Jobs Site for Vets
Veterans.gov -- separate from Vets.gov -- puts agencies’ employment resources in one place.
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The Key to Using Terabytes of Data to Predict Soldier Suicide
Researchers analyzed 1.1 billion data points from 39 Army and Defense Department databases.
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US Navy’s Next-Gen Comms System Frozen in the Italian Courts
After seven years and more than $7 billion, MUOS is ready to go. There’s just one problem with its Sicily station.
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Delivering citizen services with one weird trick
Federal website designers might be surprised by what users want once they use analytics to actually measure users' desires.
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White House techies explore the intersection of big data and ethics
A new report examines how big-data applications can uncover discrimination but also encode hidden biases.
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NSA Plan to Trash Employee Complaint Files Raises Concerns for Some
The move comes amid a legal battle about the potential improper disposal of whistleblower evidence.
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USAID's beta site is meant to look nongovernmental
In a bid to democratize development worldwide, USAID is partnering with other organizations to create a website that doesn't even end in .gov.
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Air Force wants to link iPads with SIPRNET
Air Force CTO Frank Konieczny sees a future for iPads on the Defense Department’s classified network.
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