Digital Government
Social Media’s Silent Filter
Under-the-radar workers have scrubbed objectionable material from Facebook and other sites since well before the fake-news controversy.
Digital Government
A Woman’s Pioneering Exoskeleton Technology Could Allow Paralyzed People to Move Again
The exoskeleton is built with products anyone could purchase for a few hundred dollars.
Digital Government
A Visual Search Engine for the Entire Planet
Descartes Labs lets you point-and-hop between features in China and the United States.
Digital Government
Facebook Is Making Life Absurdly Difficult in German Court
The German government is threatening the social media giant with hefty fines if it doesn’t deal with fake news and hate speech.
Emerging Tech
Meet the Satellite in Space that Maps and Predicts Lightning
The agency's next-gen satellite is taking some awesome pictures as it tests its instruments.
Emerging Tech
IBM Thinks It’s Ready to Turn Quantum Computing Into an Actual Business
IBM has announced it is forming IBM Q, a new division around its quantum computing research.
Emerging Tech
Meet Medusa and Jenny—Drones You Fly with Your Mind
A growing drone startup uses augmented reality to drop the joystick.
Emerging Tech
Nextgov Event: Improving Customer Satisfaction in Government
When it comes to customer service, can the government really do more with less?
Cybersecurity
Singapore Commuters Can Soon Use Credit Cards to Board Public Transit
Straphangers won’t have to put money on a separate fare card to ride buses and trains.
Emerging Tech
DARPA Tests Dirty-Bomb Hunting Ambulances
You may not have known it, but some D.C. ambulances were searching for radiation while they drove.
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
Training neural networks to identify galaxies could forever change humanity’s perspective of the universe.
Modernization
FirstNet's Message To Tech: First Responders Could Be The Next Big Market
Public safety officers have unique needs, and tech companies need to start thinking about them.
Ideas
In Defense of 18F—Because Inaction Also Has a Cost
Procurement doesn’t grab many headlines, but it is critical to the nation’s future.
Emerging Tech
Nextgov Event: Dig into Data Science
We'll chat with three data scientists at our first Innovation After Hours event of 2017
Emerging Tech
Elon Musk’s Moon Mission Would Vault SpaceX Past NASA
The company plans to take two people—not astronauts, but private citizens—on a trip around the moon next year.
Emerging Tech
Interior Dept. to Nature: Bring It On, We've Got Drones
The agency’s growing fleet of drones are being used in disaster response, search and rescue and in containing wildfires, mitigating avalanches and monitoring volcanic eruptions.
Emerging Tech
There Were 46% More Potential Near-Misses Between US Planes and Drones
FAA noted there’s no proof these unmanned aircraft have caused accidents.
Emerging Tech
Global Satellite Monitoring May Be Key to Keeping Illegally Caught Fish Off Your Dinner Table
Satellite data may be one way to identify smuggled fish.
Emerging Tech