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How the USGS Detects Earthquakes Using Twitter
And learned to separate background noise from the “wow, that was an earthquake!” tweet.
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Join a Drone Over the Indonesian Fires Smoking Out an Entire Region
A strong El Niño climate phenomenon has created particularly dry conditions and led to fast-spreading fires, all captured by drones and satellites.
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Elon Musk: 'If You Don’t Make it at Tesla, You Go Work at Apple'
He added, “I’m not kidding.”
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What WIll Happen when Humans and Robots Share Roads?
Safety may actually worsen before dramatically improving.
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Boehner's tech legacy (seriously)
The outgoing speaker helped push forward data and transparency measures that have opened up the House of Representatives to the American people.
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Why Are Federal IT Workers So Miserable?
Federal techies report being overworked, undertrained and eyeing the exits.
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FBI: ‘Dozens’ of Terror Suspects Have Used Encryption to Hide from Law Enforcement
“I’m surprised if it is only a couple dozen people,” says Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson.
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Can tech streamline the 2020 Census and save $5B?
The Census Bureau announced plans to fold in new technology and third party data into its 2020 population count, but questions remain about the viability of the Bureau's enterprise IT.
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Researchers Are Developing a Test to Detect All Known Viruses in Your Body, Even at Low Levels
To develop the test, a research team indexed the unique DNA or RNA sequences of every known virus to affect not only humans but animals, too—some 2 million in all.
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What It’s Like to Interview at Tesla
It's a multistage process aimed at finding out how passionate you are about the company.
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The Government Is Testing Military-Grade Technology to Keep Drones Away From Airports
With the agency’s final rule for commercial drones still more than half a year out, FAA is responding to an increasing number of “close calls” between airliners and drones.
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CIA Social Media Team: We Use Twitter to 'Explain Our Mission'
The small team is more interested in using the platform to push out historical tidbits than having conversations with individual users.
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This Is How Much You Can Expect to Make Right After You Learn to Code
One thing to keep in mind is that this survey isn’t representative of the broader workforce—though it does resemble the technical departments of companies like Google.
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Tech honorees get share of the 'Sammies' spotlight
Edward C. Hugler and Ron Ross are among the feds honored with 2015 Service to America medals from the Partnership for Public Service.
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Cobert: Customer-facing services require finesse
OPM's bid to notify feds whose info was compromised is an early test of the administration's renewed focus on customer service.
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Senators Aim to Revamp Federal Rules for Electronic Medical Charts
The measure aims to fix the system’s problems—but also make them more transparent.
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GSA’s Gwynne Kostin to Take 1-year Presidential Transition Detail
Kostin's new work will focus on "developing new programming to help an incoming administration get up and running on Ready to Govern."
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Talking Helmets and Base-Building Robots: The Army's 3-D Printing Future
A researcher at the service’s Weapons and Materials Directorate lays out a vision for additive printers on the battlefield.
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