Artificial Intelligence
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Building a Defense Contractor With Consumer Technology
Its first major project: A virtual border wall between the United States and Mexico.
Emerging Tech
NASA Seeks Moon-Ready Technologies For Short-Notice Trip
The agency's prepping for a trip to the moon as soon as next year.
Ideas
How Using Open Wi-Fi Could Get Safer
A standard called Enhanced Open aims to make using free networks more secure than it is now.
Cybersecurity
Interior IG: Nation’s Dams Safe From Hacks But Vulnerable to Insider Threats
An inspector general review exposes significant weaknesses to dam cybersecurity that have grown more serious over time.
Emerging Tech
Facebook Says It Will Kick Off Scammy Advertisers If Enough Users Report Them
Unlike with other online feedback systems, users won’t be able to see what others have said about the advertiser.
Emerging Tech
Intelligence Community Wants to Use DNA to Store Exabytes of Data
The IC is exploring whether polymers could be the future of data storage.
Emerging Tech
Privacy Is a Luxury, Just Like a $1,000 iPhone
If Apple is the company that will protect you from the tendrils of the internet, that service doesn’t come cheap.
Cybersecurity
Bitcoin Crashed After Another Crypto Exchange Got Hacked
The alleged attacker appeared to have stolen more than $40 million worth of cryptocurrency.
Emerging Tech
Drone Cops Take Flight in Los Angeles
The L.A. County Sheriff has deployed a quadcopter drone for rescue and reconnaissance. But will the public accept that these aerial officers come in peace?
Emerging Tech
Here’s How to Check If Facebook Accidentally Set All Your Posts to Public in May
The glitch affected 14 million people.
Emerging Tech
Energy Department Boots Up America's Most Powerful Supercomputer
The Summit runs roughly eight times faster and five times more efficiently than America’s most powerful supercomputer to date.
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s New Ethics Rules Forbid Using Its AI For Weapons
Alongside these broad ethical guidelines, Google has also drawn a line in the sand for the AI it will not develop.
Emerging Tech
This Is the Week That the Drone Surveillance State Became Real
Local police have access to drones and footage from those flying cameras will be automatically analyzed by AI systems not disclosed to the public.
Emerging Tech
FCC Bans Surprise Phone Charges
The agency is also cracking down on surprise network switching.
Policy
Congress Says It Doesn’t Need a Tech Advisory Office
Lawmakers voted against reinstating the Office of Technology Assessment, which was defunded in 1995.
Modernization
Modernization Board Awards Half Its First Year Funding to Three Projects
They are the first projects to receive Modernizing Government Technology funds.
Emerging Tech
Military Seeks New Tech to Weaponize Information
The military wants to know what technology can do to improve information warfare.
Digital Government
Did Cambridge Analytica Actually Change Facebook Users’ Behavior?
A survey of Atlantic readers finds the vast majority self-censor on social media because of privacy concerns.
Digital Government