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Crossover Appeal: Techies Who Made the Jump from Silicon Valley to DC
Until recently, Washington's hold on talented young techies has been tenuous.
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NIH-Run IT Contracting Vehicle Slashes Fees
The National Institute of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center is paring back the prices by as much as 35 percent.
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How the Computer Revolution Changed US Cities
After 1980, metros with an “abstract” labor base thrived, while those without one didn’t.
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Obama leans on tech in gun control action
President Barack Obama's executive actions to tighten national gun control include efforts to bolster FBI and ATF databases, as well as spur research and development of safe gun technology.
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GSA's Citizen Services get high marks in survey, but 'ease of use' lags
A new survey alerted the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies to weak points in their offerings – and helped them focus on keeping things easy for users.
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Why agencies don't know what they spend on IT
With the Federal IT COST Commission, CIOs are looking to private sector for help on cost management.
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Do You Answer Emails After Work? If So, You Should Be Getting Unlimited Vacation
Without the distraction of stifling rules, employees can be more focused and productive.
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Data Scientists Keep Forgetting the One Rule Every Researcher Should Know by Heart
Correlation does not imply causation.
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From Barbie Dolls to Moving Cars: All the Things We Learned Could Be Hacked in 2015
The Internet of Things comes with a significant drawback.
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Inside North Korea's Dissident-Tracking Computer Software System
Called Red Star, researchers dug into its code to discover it’s based on the open-source software Linux.
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There’s Now a Downloadable Chrome App to Eliminate 'Sorry' and 'I’m No Expert' From Email
Do you regularly use the words “just,” “sorry” and “I think” in your emails? You may be undermining yourself and the message you’re trying to send.
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Nextgov Goes In Depth: The 10 Best ‘Longreads’ of 2015
To wrap up the year, we thought we’d showcase a different side to our coverage: the thoughtful, in-depth and, yes, long articles that tackle issues ranging from IT recruiting to improving government customer service.
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The Marines Won’t Be Using Google’s Robot Dogs Because They Fail a Pretty Basic Test
Before we see the robots coming for us, it seems we’ll be able to hear them coming.
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Who Left a Gigantic US Voter Database Sitting Naked on the Internet?
Information on more than 190 million U.S. voters has been floating around the Internet.
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Should Cryptographers Take on the Surveillance State?
One scientist likened the danger posed by modern governments’ growing surveillance capabilities to the threat of nuclear warfare in the 1950s.
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Lawmakers Take on Federal IT Fossils
A Dec. 22 letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden seeks answers about the age -- and overall health -- of the agency’s mission-critical computer systems.
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The Year in Federal IT: Top 10 Most-Read Nextgov Stories of 2015
Coverage of the Office of Personnel Management hack topped the list of most-read Nextgov stories this year.
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How a Creepy Logo Doomed DARPA’s Surveillance Program
Some of the military-technology agency’s images are disconcerting. Others are actually kind of cute.
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Has the Obama Administration’s Push on Transparency Run Out of Steam?
At a time when the government is doling out $3.8 trillion annually, taxpayers are still questioning where all that cash is going.
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