Emerging Tech

It Pays to Keep Your Online Presence Thoroughly Up to Date

The quality of your online presence has real-world consequences.

Emerging Tech

FAA Offers Registration Refund for Drone Pilots

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an unregistered drone!

Emerging Tech

Storm Drones Could Revolutionize Weather Forecasting

Dorothy could have skipped her trip to Oz—if she only had a storm drone.

Modernization

Tech to Keep Your Home Safe

The internet of things to the rescue!

Digital Government

Special Counsel Backs Whistleblower, Says GSA ‘Grossly Mismanaged’ Tech Funds

Ex-acquisition service commissioner Tom Sharpe wins settlement.

Digital Government

Today’s Interconnected Systems Magnify Simple Human Errors at Frightening Speed And Scale

A glitch in after-hours trading July 3 caused some Nasdaq-listed prices to go haywire.

Modernization

How to Solve Common iPhone Battery Woes

A charged phone can give you peace of mind.

Digital Government

Government Wants to Detect Bio-engineered Threats

Whether it's a lab goof or by design, the intelligence community wants to spot engineered biological organisms.

Digital Government

The Gmail Feature That Will Help You Speed Through Your Inbox

Auto-advance can help save your time and your sanity.

Emerging Tech

Donald Trump’s New National Space Council is Already Baffling the Space Industry

Holding an untelevised event on the Friday before a holiday weekend isn’t a way to gin up popular support for a bold space agenda.

Emerging Tech

First Responders Use Gaming System Behind 'Mortal Kombat' for Disaster Training

DHS is testing out a video game-based active shooter simulation.

Emerging Tech

NSA Updates List of Tech Ready For Commercialization

The agency's portfolio of technology focuses on challenges in big data, cyber, internet of things and mobility.

Emerging Tech

A Programmer Automated Their Data-Entry Job. Now the Question Is Whether to Tell Their Employer.

What are the ethics of automating yourself out of a job?

Emerging Tech

Robots Used to Be Advertised as Job-Saving Technology

The idea that automation will save factory jobs from migrating overseas has never really broken into the popular narrative.

Emerging Tech

Uber Drivers in Kenya Will Take Selfies to Keep Riders Safe

Real-time identification check helps drivers protect their accounts from being compromised, says the company.

Emerging Tech

Agencies' Grasp of Agile is ‘All Over The Map,’ One CTO Says

Developing software in an incremental fashion may mean rethinking contracting and personnel's duties, an Excella Consulting's chief technology officer said.

Emerging Tech

DARPA's Ex-Leader's Speculative Dream of Mind-Melding Empathy

Arati Prabhakar imagines a neurologically enhanced future where everyone’s brains are connected.

Emerging Tech

DevOps University Aims to Address Government's Agile Talent Dearth

The 31,000 square-foot facility will support more than 250 DevOps and agile development specialists, many of whom are federal customers.

Emerging Tech

Robots Used to Be Advertised As Job-Saving Technology

Automation is now viewed in the same manner as outsourcing.

Modernization

No One Could’ve Guessed Just How Important the iPhone Would Be

That phone, along with its successors and competitors, eventually upended how we communicate.