Artificial Intelligence
Stealing an AI Algorithm and its Underlying Data is a 'High-School Level Exercise'
Billions of dollars are being poured into building sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. But they could all be snatched away if even a tiny door is left open.
Emerging Tech
White House Unveils Data Sharing Platform for Climate Change Research
A public-private partnership, including Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services, aims to open up climate-related data.
Emerging Tech
Video: White House, NASA Officials Discuss Asteroid Redirect Mission
The mission's robotic spacecraft will launch in 2021 and fly to an asteroid and capture a chunk of it using an enhanced gravity tractor to bring it back to orbit our moon.
Modernization
Scientists Have Invented a Fabric that Powers Mobile Devices With Your Movements
Your phone inevitably runs out of juice when you need it most, but soon your clothes could keep personal tech perpetually powered.
Modernization
Your Wearable Device Won’t Do the Thing You Desperately Want it to Do
If weight loss is your goal, a new study shows that you may be better without one.
Emerging Tech
A New Era for the Automobile
In long-awaited federal guidelines on self-driving cars, officials hint at a new kind of DMV.
Emerging Tech
How to Win Friends and Influence People… Using Robots
Advances in tele-operated robots are now allowing people who are confined by circumstance to have a presence in a whole range of places.
Modernization
How Design Thinking Can Benefit Government Agencies
The approach calls for agencies to be empathetic toward people’s needs while being open to continuous learning and a willingness to fail—fast.
Artificial Intelligence
Video: Siri Has a New Trick Up Her Sleeve for iOS 10
Users might be using the digital assistant much more often.
Digital Government
Innovation After Hours: Check Out Nextgov’s Newest Event
We’ve themed our first program in this series of events around open source and analytics.
Modernization
LinkNYC Pulls Web Access From Wi-Fi Kiosks
The company is removing web browsing from its public tablets because users have become way too comfortable.
Digital Government
Virtual Reality May Help You Control Your Dreams
Research suggests people dream more lucidly after they’ve immersed themselves in virtual worlds.
Digital Government
NOAA Awards 2 Contracts Under Commercial Weather Data Pilot
Under the deals, two companies will essentially act as private sector guinea pigs, using their satellites to collect and distribute radio occultation data to NOAA.
Ideas
Alexa, How Can Government Adopt Artificial Intelligence Faster?
If I were Alexa, I'd say open source and transparency.
Modernization
Apple Just Reinvented Its Biggest App
Here are four ways to understand the company’s extremely weird iMessage makeover.
Ideas
Combating Hackers with Multimodal Biometrics
A recent study found the global biometrics market is projected to become a $21.9 billion industry by 2020.
Cybersecurity
NSA Dares College Students to Locate, Disarm Bombs Controlled through the Net
NSA officials say they will confront young computer scientists with the kinds of threats the agency faces daily, partly as an intelligence analyst recruitment effort.
Emerging Tech
Video: America's First Offshore Windfarm
Five deepwater wind turbines are going to create a lot of energy.
Modernization