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
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