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
DC Airport First In Nation to Catch Suspected Imposter Using Facial Biometrics
After three days of operation, Washington Dulles International Airport’s biometric cameras identified a man allegedly attempting to use someone else’s passport to enter the U.S.
Emerging Tech
How Rocket-Makers Ensure 3D Printed Parts Are Strong Enough for Space
X-rays and microscopes are involved.
Cybersecurity
Government’s Getting Faster at Sharing Unclassified Cyber Threat Indicators
It’s also becoming rarer that an intelligence agency refuses to release a threat indicator entirely, a DHS official said.
Emerging Tech
Everyone Worries They're On Their Phone Too Much, According to Pew Report
Technology addiction affects parents and teens alike.
Digital Government
GSA Taps New Leader for Technology Transformation Services
GSA appoints one of its own to serve as the Technology Transformation Services' new leader.
Emerging Tech
Slack Was Able to Become a $7 Billion Company by Playing Nice With Others
Slack’s ethos is one of inclusion
Emerging Tech
Blockchain Could Help Bring Renewable Energy to the Power Grid, Experts Tell Congress
But lawmakers want to know how to stop cryptocurrency miners from overwhelming local utility companies.
Emerging Tech