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Big Data Is Giving China an Edge in Renewable Energy Production
IBM is deploying technology that crunches data coming from individual wind turbines.
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Op-Ed: Data is Inert -- It’s What You Do With It That Counts
Open data can fuel innovation, but only if you first fix your business practices.
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How Missile Detection Technology Can Help Us Predict Floods
A new radar system can show us exactly how much rain is falling in a given spot.
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White House Unveils CIO Council 2.0
New structure for chief information officers should be more agile and efficient, officials say.
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Postal overhaul could open up IT revenue opportunities
An overhaul bill could allow the Postal Service to exploit its massive IT operations for profitable commercial uses.
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NSA Will Replace Potential Snowdens With Computers
Agency to eliminate 90 percent of systems administrators who monitor networks.
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Your essential catchup on the week's news
Contract protests, Wennergren's exit and a map of the universe.
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Defense Contractors Aren't Ready to Comply With Anti-Counterfeit Rule
By March 2014, the Pentagon will withhold pay from companies that don’t develop an acceptable detection and avoidance system.
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Wounded Soldiers Languished 540 Days in Fort Riley Transition System
Lack of staff and months-long searches for medical records contributed to the problem.
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Security-Cleared Pros Don't Like Leaks -- or Wait Times
Survey respondents fear Snowden fallout could drag down the security clearance process.
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Every Three Years Someone Gets Busted for Using a GPS Jammer
The devices are so cheap and ubiquitous it’s hard to nab truckers using them near airports.
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NIH Works Out Deal With Henrietta Lacks' Family to Study Her Cells
After 62 years, researchers finally ask for consent.
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NSA Searches Some Americans' Emails for Any Mention of Foreign Suspects
Agents are reportedly combing over thousands and thousands of emails without warrants.
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Trust Your Eyes, People: They're Better Than Gadgets
Another example of turning over basic brain functions to technology.
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Military Illegally Aided ICE in Money Laundering Case, Civil Rights Lawyer Says
Special Operations Command applied data mining technologies to social media.
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Sharing goes hand-in-hand with safeguarding
The Open Data Policy promises to make government information more freely available, which means agencies must incorporate security into their strategies.
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Amid IT advances, Navy ponders path to Joint Information Environment
The Navy is '100 percent in' on the Defense Department's JIE, but specific plans are unclear.
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GovTV: NOAA's own Shark Week
A shark-borne sensor network is bringing data analytics to the agency's conservation efforts.
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