Digital Government
Automated Government
Federal agencies are ditching busy work to focus on missions.
Emerging Tech
The Online Gig Economy’s ‘Race to the Bottom’
When the whole world is fighting for the same jobs, what happens to workers?
Emerging Tech
Russia, U.S. Are In a Military Exoskeleton Race
A look at the Iron Man-like dreams and power-starved realities of dueling technology programs.
Emerging Tech
NASA Is Waiting for the Opportunity Rover to Phone Home
Scientists and researchers are standing by.
Emerging Tech
SEC Wants to Keep Tabs on Social Media Posts That Could Move Markets
The commission is looking for an off-the-shelf tool to flag important social media posts on public sites across the web.
Artificial Intelligence
Google and Harvard Made AI to Predict Earthquake Aftershocks
They used a database of more than 131,000 earthquakes.
Emerging Tech
DHS Gives ‘Power Suit’ a Whole New Meaning
The agency wants first responders’ clothing to be able to generate and store electricity.
Emerging Tech
Twitter Is Testing a Feature Where It Suggests Who to Unfollow
It could help users clean up their timelines.
Emerging Tech
For First Time in 3 Years, NASA Is Shopping For New Spacecraft
At first, NASA officials didn’t think they’d see anything new in commercial spacecraft this year. Now they’re taking a second look.
Artificial Intelligence
Need a Website Read Aloud? Google Go Has Your Back
Time to break out the headphones.
Digital Government
A Simple Tweak to Google Search Now Helps Veterans to Find Jobs
Only about half of all veterans in the U.S. participate in the workforce at all.
Digital Government
A Good Keyboard Is the Ultimate Workplace Luxury
It's the item you interact with more than anything else in your workplace.
Emerging Tech
Austin, Texas, Just Became the U.S. Army’s Silicon Valley
The service is making a big bet that getting closer to tech startups will help deter future adversaries.
Digital Government
How Mobile Data Could Help Manage the National Parks
The data could be used to create better park experiences despite overcrowding.
Digital Government
Facebook's VPN App Pulled From Apple Store For Privacy Violations
Onavo Protect can't protect you from Facebook.
Digital Government
Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism
Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades, and now that the public has finally noticed, it’s too late. The personal-data privacy war is long over, and you lost.
Emerging Tech
Forest Service Public-Private Partnership Explores Using Drones for Precision Pesticide Application
The group plans to award a sole-source contract to research whether unmanned aerial systems can spray in hard-to-reach places without disrupting nearby sensitive ecosystems.
Emerging Tech
Waymo’s Robot Cars, and the Humans Who Tend to Them
People are always the hack that make automated systems work.
Emerging Tech
Windows 95 Is Now an App You Can Download on Any Computer
The entire operating system file is only 129 MB.
Emerging Tech