Policy
Net Neutrality Was Never Enough
The internet is as much the enemy as it is the hero of contemporary life.
Emerging Tech
Everything You Never Thought to Ask About Astronaut Food
“Burping in microgravity is probably not something you want to do a lot of.”
Emerging Tech
A New Technology Promises to Make Bitcoin Useful to Pay for Things, and Not to Hoard
A new blockchain technology makes it easier to spend coins.
Emerging Tech
Watch SpaceX Launch its First Reusable Rocket to the International Space Station
This is the first time NASA has approved the use of a previously flown rocket booster on a mission to the space station.
Artificial Intelligence
NASA Gets Help From Google to Find Alien Planet
Machine learning is helping to unlock the secrets of outer space.
Artificial Intelligence
Threading a City With Gunfire Sensors Might Not Make It Any Safer
Amid record-breaking gun violence, Chicago’s police are expanding the use of an innovative technology—with little evidence that it helps.
Modernization
White House Unveils Latest Plan to Fix Government Technology
The first center of excellence will be a partnership between the Agriculture Department, White House, General Services Administration and industry.
Emerging Tech
A New Kind of Soft Battery, Inspired by the Electric Eel
The animals inspired the design of the very first battery. Two centuries later, they're at it again.
Emerging Tech
This Company Is Trying to Turn Federal Agencies into Startups
Palo Alto-based BMNT Partners teaches agencies how to design the solutions to their challenges.
Emerging Tech
Under-the-Screen Fingerprint Readers Are Coming in 2018
Here's another option when it comes to smartphone biometrics.
Emerging Tech
How to Give the Gift of Bitcoin This Holiday Season
All of your friends and family are secretly hoping to unwrap the gift of a speculative, volatile investment.
Modernization
Here’s Who Might Dominate Alliant 2 Business
The contract may feature 61 businesses but a research firm says far fewer companies will snag most of the business.
Emerging Tech
Hurricane Maria Has Made Puerto Rico a Testbed for New Technology
Government, tech companies, and nonprofits have all worked to bring the US territory back online.
Emerging Tech
Former Facebook Executive Has Sworn Off Social Media Because He Doesn’t Want to Be “Programmed”
He recommends that everyone take a “hard break” from social media.
Policy
Why Donald Trump Wants to Go Back to the Moon
It’s a promise that has been made by three previous presidents
Digital Government
HHS Turns to Citizen Coders to Curtail Opioid Epidemic
More than 300 coders and health advocates showed up for the agency’s first code-a-thon.
Emerging Tech