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Hate Being Near Sick People? There’s an App for That
Sickweather uses Facebook statuses and tweets about runny noses to create its real-time map of contagion.
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Congress to Feds: You're On the Hook for Spending Transparency
The DATA Act won’t live up to its potential if the executive branch doesn't live up to its responsibilities, lawmakers say.
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Data Act sponsors look to implementation
Key backers say they will hold OMB's "feet to the fire" to ensure the agency lives up to the measure's requirements.
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The Data Act Is About to Shake Up Federal Operations
Following House passage late Monday, the bill that will require uniform spending data across the government heads to Obama for signature.
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More Tech Pros Are Earning Six Figure Salaries
Year over year job postings are up 162 percent for cybersecurity professionals.
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Operators Rely On Memory, Not Computers, to Track Nuke Waste
Inoperable phones, outdated monitoring system and absence of video surveillance thwart investigation at New Mexico repository.
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Takai to leave DOD
CIO's May departure will add to the Pentagon's growing list of senior IT and management vacancies.
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Data Act sent to president
The House passed the spending transparency legislation easily, as the Senate did earlier, but it's not clear what the White House position is.
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Obama Orders Investigation of Veteran Deaths in Phoenix
Clinical experts are reviewing operations at the center where as many as 40 vets are alleged to have died awaiting care.
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Big data policy preview reveals equity concerns
“We need to pay careful attention to what unexpected outcomes the use of big data might lead to, and how to remedy any unintended discrimination or inequality that may result," according to presidential advisor John Podesta, who is heading up a White House policy review.
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Hey, YouTube, We Want to Sync Multiple Videos from the Same Event
And we could use metadata to turn disjointed footage into a single narrative.
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Coming Soon: Pentagon’s Multi-Billion Dollar Health Records Contract
Project could change the future of U.S. health care.
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Intel probes the private-sector side of open government data
A common thread of the various projects is that they look at social or business problems addressed by large-scale institutions and look to disrupt them through crowdsourcing and data.
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How analytics are changing health care
Medical innovators show how better records and advanced algorithms can transform treatment.
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The Number of Measles Cases This Year Is Already Troubling -- and It's Only April
Health officials are worried.
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The Web Is Not Actually Getting Any More Global
Rising data flow is not inherently international.
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Navy calibration patent goes commercial
Under a cross-licensing agreement, American Technical Services will commercialize the system, while the Navy obtains a license to use ATS software.
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Oregon's Health Care Website Is Worse Than HealthCare.gov
It's so bad, an advisory panel recommended Thursday that the state move to the federal exchange.
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