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DHS dives into the deep, dark, social web
DHS is looking to industry for advice on how to automate and innovate when it comes to open-source and social media analytics.
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Researchers Have Established a Worrisome Link Between Social Media Use and Sleep
Among those who used social media more often, nearly 30 percent reported a high degree of difficulty sleeping.
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Commerce’s Data Geeks Want to Teach You How to Use Their Data
The Data Service team is building a series of tutorials on applying the department's data sets to research.
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Refugee or Terrorist? IBM Thinks Its Software Has the Answer
A new tool to turn unstructured data into actionable intelligence could change the way law enforcement fights terrorism, and challenge the data-collection debate.
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What's Leidos getting for $5B?
Washington Technology editor Nick Wakeman analyzes what Leidos is getting in its $5 billion acquisition of Lockheed Martin's Information Services and Global Solutions business.
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The performance measures that managers hate
For metric-based management, Steve Kelman argues, it's important that the measures not be specified from on high.
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Data Trade Group: Transparency Isn’t Enough
The Data Transparency Coalition is renaming itself the “Data Coalition” to reflect the “broad impact” of open data.
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Attention, Feds: Your Slack Messages are Subject to FOIA
If you work for a government agency, your taco emoji are federal records.
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An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy
A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.
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How USDA crowdsourced agricultural data
Armed with $63,000 and Microsoft’s cloud platform, USDA rustled up a new crop of agricultural data dashboards to help secure a sustainable food supply.
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Video: This Vending Machine Is Watching You
It knows who you are and what candy you crave.
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DHS Wants Better Social Media Screening Technology
In a new request for information, DHS said it is looking for open source “privacy, civil rights and civil liberties-protecting analytic methods."
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With Lockheed Deal, Leidos Now the Government’s Largest IT Provider
As part of the deal, Lockheed Martin will receive $1.8 billion in cash from Leidos and will own a majority – 50.5 percent – equity stake in the company worth $3.2 billion.
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Obama Administration’s Encryption Views Are All Over the Map
Some government officials are focused on catching criminals, while others worry about empowering hackers.
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Floppy Disks and Windows XP: Nuclear Weapons Technology Is Hilariously Out of Date
The majority of the systems in the Wyoming U.S. Air Force launch control center date back to the 1960s and 1970s.
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Citizens losing satisfaction with feds, but web services fare OK
Online tools helped buoy sinking satisfaction levels as 2015 saw federal customers growing less and less pleased with what Uncle Sam had to offer.
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Why the State Department is adopting responsive design
State officials are redesigning and consolidating the websites for its foreign missions to streamline content management and better accommodate mobile users.
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Satisfaction with Federal Government Drops Yet Again
The Treasury Department had the lowest customer satisfaction score in the federal government, largely because of the IRS.
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The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting
At the University of California, Berkeley, the on-campus presentation means free t-shirts, free food and lots of stories about meditation and disco balls.
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