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10 Charts That Paint Fascinating Portrait of Modern-Day Programmer
Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for programmers, recently came out with its 2015 developer survey, which included responses from more than 26,000 people in 157 countries,
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Bionic Eyes Are No Match for the Curiosity of Pentagon Cartographers
Right now, technology is up against a problem that didn't exist in the Atari age: big data.
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How Facial Recognition Technology Is Unearthing China's Artificial Islands
NGA is using "broad-based change detection" tools to calculate where in the water the Chinese might next break ground, so to speak.
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DOD Stresses Cyber in Acquisition Reform Update
Though the department is already working to improve military system cybersecurity, "much more needs to be done."
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HHS Cracks Down on Hospitals Hoarding Patient Information
An HHS agency is trying to ensure patient information flows seamlessly between health systems.
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Who's responsible for the autonomous killer robots?
A new report explores the legal, moral and practical concerns of fully autonomous weapons.
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FDIC IT security, coastal resilience and the Great Cannon
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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White House Tests Out Responsive Website
The White House plans to update other parts of its site gradually to better reflect users' behavior.
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Building the Internet of Things Is Risky—and a Great Opportunity
The Internet of Things' disruptive potential has been very slow to realize, in large part because the commercial landscape is not ready for it.
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How Google Is Tackling the Science of How to Build Excellent Teams
Project Oxygen started out as an attempt by Google’s People and Innovation Lab to prove that managers don’t really matter. It ended up proving the opposite.
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Competition for Tech Talent Heats Up with Clinton's Google Hire
In preparation for her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has recruited Google exec Stephanie Hannon as her CTO, according to a Washington Post article on Wednesday.
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Can These 40 People Fix Federal IT in 6 Months?
Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott on Thursday officially launched the IT Solutions Challenge at the White House.
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Special Ops command seeks drones, pilots and support
SOCOM's drone operations are based primarily in Afghanistan, with other activity in Somalia, Yemen, the Philippines and the U.S.
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First Draft Big Data Framework Seeks to Tackle the Big Questions First
It's part of NIST's efforts to standardize global conversations about big data.
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The Dot-Gov Rejects: The 1,000 Government Websites Shuttered Over Past 10 Years
Some of the websites clearly never caught on.
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How 1990s DEA Surveillance Became Blueprint for NSA Spying
By exposing the NSA’s spying regime, Snowden forced the Justice Department to shut down a separate phone-surveillance operation.
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Pentagon Dropped the Ball on Internet Upgrade, Audit Says
IT officials didn’t consider the migration to the next-generation IP system a high priority, auditors say.
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Rand Paul Pledges to 'Immediately' End NSA Mass Surveillance If Elected President
The new Republican presidential candidate made an immediate stand on surveillance.
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