Digital Government
Tech Companies Try to Fight Unconscious Bias in Hiring by Making Job Candidates Fight Coding Bots
A startup in Silicon Valley is challenging conventional hiring practices in the white, male-dominated world of tech.
Digital Government
Here’s How the Pentagon Wants to Use Social Media On the Battlefield
Artificial intelligence will weave open-source and satellite data into useful intelligence in real time, the Pentagon’s No. 2 says.
Emerging Tech
Agencies Try a Tool That Digs Up What Google Doesn't
Parts of the government are using a deep web search engine that teaches itself to return better search results.
Emerging Tech
NOAA’s New Environmental Satellite Launch Delayed 4-6 Months
The decision came after a NOAA-convened team conducted a risk-based evaluation of cost, schedule and performance issues for JPSS-1.
Emerging Tech
Video: Uber's Next Project: Flying Cars
The company promises within 10 years a fleet of on-demand, semi-autonomous, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically.
Digital Government
GSA Hires Former Pixar Executive and Oscar Winner as TTS Commissioner
Acting TTS Commissioner Dave Shive will step back into his role as GSA chief information officer.
Digital Government
A Court Will Decide Whether Facebook Used You to Violate the Privacy of All Your Friends
Every time you tag friends in a Facebook photo, Facebook stores their image in its database.
Digital Government
How the Next Administration Can Improve Customer Service
The recommendations include creating chief customer officers.
Modernization
The Space Industry’s New Bet: Putting an 'App Store' in Orbit
“We want to change the way people interact with space systems, to make it into a software problem instead of a hardware problem."
Modernization
Video: How to Navigate With Google Maps Hands Free
Keep your eyes on the road while you use voice recognition.
Digital Government
A Startup’s Constellation of Tiny Satellites is Now Photographing Half of Earth’s Landmass Every Day
Are you ready for the coming era of global transparency?
Cybersecurity
How a Bunch of Hacked DVR Machines Took Down Twitter and Reddit
And Spotify and Github and The New York Times.
Emerging Tech
$10B Next-Gen NOAA Satellite Launch May Be Delayed… Again
NOAA and NASA executives are weighing their options with a decision of whether to delay expected in the coming days.
Digital Government
Video: Charging the Federal Government Up About Electric Vehicles
The Energy Department is developing ways to encourage adoption of electric vehicles.
Emerging Tech
New 3-D-Printed Hand Simultaneously Makes Fingerprint Scanners More Secure and Vulnerable
Replicating a whole hand to crack open biometrically sealed vaults is no longer just the stuff movies are made of.
Artificial Intelligence
Air Force Doesn’t Know How to Test Its Future Robotic Wingmen
How do you surprise a drone that can revise its strategy hundreds of times in an eyeblink?
Digital Government
A Computer Watched the Debates. It Thought Clinton Was Happy and Trump Was Angry and Quite Sad
Grad students built an application that "watches" the debate, captures a video frame every 5 seconds and spits out a score on how confident it was that it recognizes a set of emotions.
Digital Government
Incessant Consumer Surveillance Is Leaking Into Physical Stores
Retail is on its way to a future of personalized everything—even prices.
Artificial Intelligence