Artificial Intelligence
Tomorrow’s Intelligent Malware Will Attack When It Sees Your Face
IBM researchers have injected viruses with neural nets, making them stealthier and precisely targetable.
Digital Government
Here’s How to Actually Stop Google From Tracking Your Location
The search giant can be thwarted.
Emerging Tech
DARPA Wants to Make Underground Maps on the Fly
The agency is challenging teams to build systems that chart caves, tunnels and underground urban infrastructure.
Emerging Tech
How to Ace Your Chatbot Interview
Your next interview will begin with the ping of an incoming text message.
Emerging Tech
The Next Stop on Amazon’s Journey Toward World Domination is Your Car
Alexa, will you turn up the air conditioning?
Emerging Tech
Google’s Larry Page Thinks We’ll Soon Be Soaring Over Traffic in These Cute Flying Cars He’s Building
For now, the Flyer is clearly a novelty, meant to appeal to the ambitions and pocketbooks of wealthy hobbyists.
Emerging Tech
NOAA Creates Workarounds for Malfunctioning Weather Satellite
The GOES-17 still isn’t working the way it’s meant to, but engineers believe they have a way to make it more functional than not.
Modernization
VA Wants a New Cloud for Its Mobile Apps
The effort comes as VA reworks its entire online presence to make services more accessible and user-friendly for some 9 million veterans.
Emerging Tech
America Is Not Ready for Exploding Drones
An apparent assassination attempt in Venezuela shows how technology is moving faster than governments can counter it.
Emerging Tech
Who’s Leading the Western Response to Russia’s Warbots? Estonia
A European leader in robotic autonomy turns its attention to the battlefield.
Digital Government
Cloud-Based Mapping Could Play a Bigger Role in Disaster Response This Hurricane Season
Localities are using maps to visualize hazards, process damage imagery and crowdsource flood information.
Policy
Pentagon Prohibits Personnel From Using GPS Services in All ‘Operational Areas’
The device-agnostic policy applies to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, smartwatches and all other applications with geolocation features.
Digital Government
Improve Your Agency's Customer Experience in 8 Steps
ACT-IAC unveiled a playbook for overhauling citizen-facing services.
Emerging Tech
Cargo Bases in Space: Air Force General Wants Them Within a Decade
The service’s mobility chief is already talking with SpaceX and other companies about the possibilities of orbiting supply dumps.
Modernization
USDA Kicks Off Bidding for Second Round of IT Overhaul Contacts
The program will be a model for other agencies to surge outdated IT into the 21st century.
Cybersecurity
Mike Pence’s Cybersecurity Speech (Annotated)
The vice president delivered a fiery campaign-style cybersecurity speech at a Homeland Security cyber conference Tuesday. Here’s an explainer.
Digital Government
23andMe and Other Genetic Testing Companies Release Guideline on How to Handle DNA Data
This set of best practices doesn't guarantee privacy, though.
Digital Government
Google Search Might Return to China’s Internet, and Some Users Can Hardly Wait
If Google does relaunch its search engine in China, it will end up compliant with some of the world’s most restrictive policies on freedom of information.
Digital Government