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
GSA Organizing New Artificial Intelligence Group
The community of practice will focus on how artificial intelligence can improve citizen services.
Digital Government
Video: Inside DARPA's Space Surveillance Telescope
The telescope will keep an eye on Earth's space junk.
Digital Government
DOT Launches New Automated Transportation Technology Advisory Committee
The group will be tasked with informing federal policy making.
Emerging Tech
Apple Is Finally Overhauling Its Computers
Apple will refresh its Mac laptops and desktops, according to a report from Recode yesterday.
Emerging Tech
What an NFL Coach, the Pentagon and Election Systems Have in Common
Does going low-tech make sense in some circumstances?
Artificial Intelligence
Should Human-Operated and Automated Vehicles Have to Meet the Same Standards?
It's a tough question, says one policymaker.
Emerging Tech
Video: Meet the Giant Robot That Builds Boeing’s Airplane Wings
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a robot building a plane.
Digital Government
Mission Possible: A Spy Agency Builds a Tech Scout Network
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is embedding in startup incubators.
Digital Government
A Computer’s Hot Take on the 2016 Election
An artificial intelligence found Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton seemed to get “happier” coverage than Donald Trump. But is that evidence of media bias? Not necessarily.
Emerging Tech
Got a Drone Problem? Call the Drone Busters
About as long as drones have been popular, there have been people who want to knock them out of the sky.
Emerging Tech
The Low-Tech Way to Colonize Mars
NASA researchers are modeling Martian settlements after early American colonists.
Emerging Tech
Quantum Company D-Wave Takes A Bet on Federal Buyers
The Canadian company launched a government-focused subsidiary.
Emerging Tech
Join Us Thursday For Contracting Conversation Over Cocktails
Learn about the trends that will impact 2017.
Modernization
Apple Scales Back its Autonomous Car Ambitions and Focuses on Creating Self-Driving Software
A project to develop an autonomous driving system will give Apple flexibility to partner with existing carmakers.
Digital Government
Google and Facebook Double Down on Internet Infrastructure With New Pacific Cable
The cable system that will be ready in 2018.
Modernization