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
Scientists Have Connected 3D-Printed Objects to the Internet Without Electronics
Rejoice! We have finally connected a laundry detergent bottle to the internet.
Emerging Tech
Apple Teams Up With Stanford to Study Irregular Heart Rhythms
The project gathers data one heartbeat at a time.
Emerging Tech
The Microbes Making Themselves at Home on the Space Station
The bacteria living with astronauts more closely resemble the kind living in homes on Earth, rather than on humans themselves.
Policy
Census Can Move Forward After $283 Million Contract Dispute
AT&T, the company that filed the protest, reached a deal to work as a subcontractor on Census operations.
Emerging Tech
The Dangerous New Technology That Will Make Us Question Our Basic Idea of Reality
We are about to enter a new era of computer-generated audio and video recordings.
Ideas
With New Testing Rules, Will 2018 Finally Be the Year of the Drone?
The visual line-of-sight rule is perhaps the most important limitation to widespread commercial use of drones.
Emerging Tech