Emerging Tech
How to Delete Your Google+ Account
Here is how to save your data before the social network sunsets.
Digital Government
Would You Let Your Boss Into Your Email Inbox?
One startup believes in full transparency.
Digital Government
Government Contractors Harris and L3 Announce Merger
The two contractors will create a $33.5 billion company.
Emerging Tech
IARPA Wants to Identify Criminals From Their Skin Cells
The goal isn’t to replace DNA analysis but rather add another technology to forensic analysts’ toolbox.
Emerging Tech
GSA’s Tech Teams Increasingly Important to Administration’s Tech Priorities
18F and the Technology Transformation Services face a more certain future than just two years ago.
Digital Government
Program Pairing Governments and Startups Launches Latest Round
Participants in the Startup in Residence program are seeking solutions for about 80 “civic challenges.”
Cybersecurity
Repeating Kanye West’s Phone Password Is Not a Federal Crime
Unless you’re Ye himself, you’ve got little cause for concern.
Emerging Tech
DHS Funds Airport Navigation App that Guides You from Check-in to Gate
It also allows federal agencies to send messages to passengers in real time.
Digital Government
It’s Time for Agencies to Use and Commercialize Their Data, White House Official Says
"It gets my blood boiling to think we have all this data. We should be able to do more with it,” Margaret Weichert, the administration’s management chief, said.
Artificial Intelligence
Companies Should Help You Retrain When You’re Automated Out of a Job
400 million workers could be displaced by 2030.
Digital Government
Here’s How Facebook Plans to Take Over The Workplace
Another way to manage office communications.
Cybersecurity
The Newest Password Technology Is Making Your Phone Easier for Police to Search
For the first time, police have compelled a suspect to unlock his phone using Face ID. The case reveals an interesting inversion: More advanced password technology is less protected from police seizure.
Emerging Tech
NASA Made the Mars Curiosity Rover Switch Brains
No, NASA can't do this process on people.
Emerging Tech
Facebook Wants to Be Inside Your House With Portal, its First Physical Device
The company is already facing major consumer-trust issues.
Cybersecurity
The Chinese Motherboard Hack Is a Crisis, Even If It Didn’t Really Happen
Apple, Amazon, and Super Micro have all denied the veracity of a report on Chinese hardware hacking. No matter the outcome, the results could inflame an already raw trade relationship for high tech between the U.S. and China.
Podcasts
Critical Update: How Marines Started 3D Printing Everything From Buckles to Barracks
Marines have a long history of MacGyver-ing what they need, but this unit has given them a 21st-century twist.
Emerging Tech
Fake News on Twitter Is Still a Big Problem, Study Finds
And yes, many of the accounts are automated.
Emerging Tech
Schools Are Spending Big On Surveillance Technology. Is It Worth It?
After Parkland, schools are installing gunshot-detection systems typically used in cities like Oakland and Chicago. But the concrete benefits of the technology are dubious.
Cybersecurity
New Tool Fights Fake News by Exposing the Websites That Create It
MIT and Qatari researchers say it’s easier to expose a liar than debunk each of his lies
Emerging Tech