Emerging Tech
CBP to Deploy Anti-Drone Bubbles Along U.S.-Mexico Border
The agency is fielding six counter-drone systems along the southern border and might soon deploy more, according to the vendor.
Ideas
Why Are Scientists So Excited about a Recently Claimed Quantum Computing Milestone?
To understand, we need to go back to conventional, or digital, computers.
Emerging Tech
Digital Natives Have Military Officials Rethinking Health Care Training
Defense and military officials must revamp instruction to meet today’s needs and the expectations of a next-generation workforce.
Emerging Tech
Big Tech Bulks Up Its Anti-Extremism Group. But Will It Do More than Talk?
Facebook and others launched GIFCT to stop violent groups from exploiting online platforms.
Emerging Tech
GAO Center to Educate Congress on the Big Picture of Future Tech
The Center for Strategic Foresight plans to give lawmakers a broad sense of what’s coming in the future.
Emerging Tech
Watch a Roofing Drone Fire Its Nail Gun
A new aerial vehicle called an “octocopter” can attach asphalt shingles to a roof without a human at the controls.
Podcasts
Critical Update: The Hidden Threats of 5G
Nextgov goes inside the technology that will underpin billions of interconnected devices.
Emerging Tech
A New Joystick For the Brain-Controlled Vehicles Of the Future
An innovative sensor strip promises a far better way to connect human brains to machines.
Policy
Why It’s So Hard To Write Federal Technology Policy
As OMB's cloud lead, Bill Hunt, leaves his policy-writing role for an agency gig, he spoke with Nextgov about what goes into setting the IT agenda for the entire federal government.
Emerging Tech
How VA Implements Predictive Analytics to Help Prevent Veteran Suicides
Since it was stood up in 2017, the REACH VET program has helped health care providers better identify individuals facing higher risks.
Digital Government
Veterans Affairs Appoints Chief Data Officer
Kshemendra Paul will lead the agency’s efforts to leverage data and better inform VA-wide decision-making through technology and information.
Emerging Tech
US Navy’s Drone Tanker Prototype Takes First Flight
Now service officials hope they can get the MQ-25 operating faster than planned.
Emerging Tech
‘EarEcho’ Uses Your Ear to Unlock Your Phone
A new prototype technology called EarEcho uses modified wireless earbuds to authenticate smartphone users via their ear canal, researchers report.
Ideas
Algorithms Are People
The secret sauce of search engines gives tech companies an abundance of plausible deniability.
Ideas
I Researched Uighur Society in China for 8 Years and Watched How Technology Opened New Opportunities – Then Became a Trap
The Muslim ethnic minority must carry their smartphones or risk being detained.
Digital Government
Lawmakers Intro Bill to Enhance Not-Yet-Revived Office of Technical Assessment
A group of House and Senate lawmakers want the office to be more responsive and transparent, assuming funding to reinstate it gets through the appropriations process.
Emerging Tech
FDA Unveils Next Step on its Journey to Develop a Safer Food System
Insiders say it’s time to leverage emerging technologies and innovative approaches to strengthen and protect food traceability across America.
Emerging Tech
Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World
A new report found that CCTV surveillance is increasing in certain areas of the U.S., with one city government watching its citizens from 35,000 cameras.
Emerging Tech
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Eyes Tech Sprints to Accelerate Advancements
The hope is to rapidly identify technological solutions for the agency’s toughest problems.
Emerging Tech