Digital Government

Test Your Techie Trivia Skills: Where Are Those 90s Terms Now?

Will twerk and phablet go the way of e-tailing and palmtop, or endure like geek and LOL?

Digital Government

A Scientist Used Some Electrodes, a Magnet, and a Swim Cap to Play a Video Game Using His Colleague’s Brain

Researchers at the University of Washington have completed the first experiment demonstrating human brain-to-brain communication.

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Twitter and Facebook’s Global Impact as Told Through Which Governments Want Their Data

The United States requests more user data from each company than any other country—by far.

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Hacker pleads guilty, targeted DOE

A hacker has pleaded guilty to charges he had hacked into supercomputers owned by the Department of Energy and planned to sell access to them for tens of thousands of dollars.

Digital Government

The Marine Corps Needs a Few Good Apps

The software should support games and run on Apple and Android devices.

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The Air Force launches a 'collaboratory'

New website shows how agencies can find creative ways to serve multiple missions.

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Everything That’s Wrong With Microsoft, as Told by Veterans Who Abandoned the Company

It’s possible, even likely, that Microsoft is about to enter the darkest period in the firm’s history.

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How Drones Are Helping Peru Save Its Ancient Temples, Pyramids and Cities

They can map the country's historic sites faster than humans, while also monitoring the areas for intruders.

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A Database of 3D Fossils, Ready for You to Explore and Print

What's better than looking a picture of an ancient trilobite? Printing an ancient trilobite.

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If You Want to Keep Female Employees, Let Them Work From Home

Survey showed 100 percent of women said remote work policies affected their decisions to stay with employers.

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The Staggering Power of NSA Systems Administrators

Reflections on the Ex-PFC Wintergreens of the national-security state

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Who's the next head of Hezbollah? New platform has some predictions

University of Maryland researchers test tool for mapping terror and criminal org charts.

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Sequester not to blame for lack of innovation

The government has been wasting money in IT for the past decade, so blaming the current budget situation for a refusal to innovate is misplaced.

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Silicon Valley Is Plucking Government IT Talent

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists look to defense and intelligence agency employees.

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Hey, How About Some HBO for Nuclear Missile Launch Crews?

Air Force Global Strike Command plans satellite TV buy.

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All the Hurricanes of the Past 170 Years, Mapped

See where 11,967 cyclones overlap in space in this fascinating look at the planet's most powerful storms.

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Making the case to attend SXSW

One government IT expert's picks for panels with real work relevance.