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Dan Tangherlini: A force for continuous change
"It's OK to risk the possibility of blowing up what works," says the GSA administrator, if the payoff warrants it.
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A somewhat revealing rubber stamp
Steve Kelman suggests that interesting signals can be gleaned from China's "two session" proceedings.
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Los Alamos Nuclear Waste Heads to Texas Temporarily After Radiation Leaks
No date set for reopening shuttered N.M. storage site.
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Rand Paul Slams Surveillance State 'Drunk With Power'
A harsh speech wins over the UC Berkeley crowd but the Republican senator glides past social issues.
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Some Medical Translation Apps Help Just Enough to Hurt
For now, phone-based interpretation is the best tech substitute for a trained interpreter in the room.
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More Radiation Escapes New Mexico Nuclear-Waste Facility
The department says it will provide updates on site radiation levels every Thursday.
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Video: Are you smarter than a dinosaur?
NASA's newest crowdsourcing initiative seeks better algorithms for identifying humanity-threatening asteroids.
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Obama Administration Denies 'Abandoning the Internet'
Commerce official insists other governments won't be allowed to seize online power.
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Should Wikipedia Put Crimea on the Russian Map?
The world's largest source of human knowledge cedes Crimea to Russia on the map, but the debate is far from over.
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White House launches climate data website
The aggregation of climate info and tools is designed to help foster application development and entrepreneurial opportunities.
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The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
American students need to improve in math and science—but not because there's a surplus of jobs in those fields.
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USGS unveils new Web presence, seeks feedback
The new site is part of a two-year effort to make the U.S. Geological Survey's online resources more accessible and user-friendly.
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How Twitter Could Help Police Departments Predict Crime
Public Twitter data improved the predictions in metropolitan Chicago compared to historical comparisons, study finds.
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What Federal IT Managers Are Doing Instead of Hiring
Hardware skills and IT procurement were the only two areas where IT leaders said they had adequate talent.
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China’s Secret Antisatellite Weapons Should Be on Everyone’s Radar
The Internet is making what governments do in space, like everywhere else, less mysterious.
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NSA 'Time Machine' Includes Spying on Americans' Phone Conversations
Program collects '100 percent' of an unnamed foreign country’s calls, including content from Americans abroad.
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How Twitter Tracks the Flu
The social-media site can raise flags about the spread of the flu weeks before CDC data becomes available.
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I’ll Pass on the Medical Grass to Treat PTSD
Sounds too much like street grass, which didn’t help.
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