Emerging Tech
How Twitter Bots Shape the Election
Between the first two presidential debates, a third of pro-Trump tweets and nearly a fifth of pro-Clinton tweets came from automated accounts.
Emerging Tech
Hacked Emails Show Eric Schmidt Played Crucial Role in Team Hillary’s Election Tech
Schmidt leveraged his Silicon Valley acumen to generate a new source of influence.
Emerging Tech
Inside DARPA's Plans to Use Insects for Good
The Defense Department is hosting a proposer's day for "insect allies."
Digital Government
Precision Medicine May Be Health Care’s Next Big Thing, But We Don’t Yet Know How to Evaluate Precision Drugs
"We have a regulatory system that is designed for imprecise medicine.”
Emerging Tech
Task Force Urges Loosening Reins on Hacking Victims to Fight Back
The report promotes "active defense" measures including locking up a hacker’s network until stolen information is returned.
Digital Government
9 Most Memorable Cyber Incidents of 2016
Personal hacks and nation-sponsored cyberattacks were all the rage this year.
Emerging Tech
NATO's Secret Weapon: Videochat
The organization thinks videoconferencing technology could bridge cultural gaps.
Digital Government
New Study Shows How 'Star Trek' Jokes and Geek Culture Make Women Feel Unwelcome in Computer Science
To draw more girls into STEM fields, it’s not enough to provide more learning opportunities.
Emerging Tech
Video: NASA Hosts Pumpkin-Carving Contest
These decorative gourds are out of this world.
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