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
A 3D-Printed, Solar-Powered Lab-in-a-Box Could Change How We Combat Disease Outbreaks
FieldLab can even be carried like a briefcase.
Ideas
China Is On a Whole-of-Nation Push for AI. The US Must Match It
Beijing is harnessing government and commercial entities in pursuit of a once-in-a-generation technological kingmaker.
Emerging Tech
Drones On Leashes, Kamikaze Drones, Information Bombs Top Pentagon’s Counterterrorism Wishlist
Expect to see these technologies in a grey-zone battlefield in the not-too-distant future.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Taught an AI That Sorts Cat Photos to Analyze DNA
And it’s very good at it.
Artificial Intelligence
Your Workplace Rewards Men More and AI Can Prove It
“This is happening everywhere, all the time.”
Digital Government
NGA Launches Bold Recruitment Plan to Hire Silicon Valley's Best
The intel agency is hacking hiring rules to fill three new digital teams in its quest for data dominance.
Digital Government
Watchdog: Automation Flaws Granted Hundreds of People Citizenship Without Background Checks
The Electronic Immigration System, used to process naturalization documents, has major issues.
Modernization
Lawmakers to VA: “We’ve Got Your Back” on $10B IT Contract
Congress expressed its support for VA's electronic health records contract with Cerner, but promised to keep a close watch on its implementation.
Digital Government
80 Small Businesses To Get A Spot On Alliant 2
The small business portion of the contract vehicle is valued at a maximum $15 billion.
Emerging Tech
A High-School Student Designed an App That Could Save Farmers’ Lives
CalorApp aims to give farmworkers the immediate information they need to serve as their own inspectors
Emerging Tech
MIT Researchers Are Making Computers Out of Live Bacteria
In the future, you could be eating cancer-detecting robots in much the same way you take your morning vitamins.
Emerging Tech