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.

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

Apple Should Be Worried—the Future of Tech is in Software, Not Hardware

Could it be that Apple is no longer the company to beat?

Emerging Tech

Jeff Bezos' New Rocket, Built to Carry Payloads and People

The founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin announced Monday the design of an orbital rocket called New Glenn.

Digital Government

Report: Want Innovation? Hire and Empower CTOs

Chief technology officers should be empowered to deliver new solutions and approaches.

Emerging Tech

Video: FCC Wants to Make Cable Set-Top Boxes a Thing of the Past

Interesting news for television fans (which is just about everybody).

Emerging Tech

An Early Internet Pioneer Says the Construction of the Web is Crippling Our Thinking

Ted Nelson is not a programmer, and his vision for what the internet could be is still in the early stages of practical realization.

Digital Government

Special Operators Getting New Autonomous Tactical Drone

A prototype microdrone that maps a building’s rooms will change the urban battlefield.

Emerging Tech

How Virtual Reality Could Help Stop the Next Ebola Outbreak

The Health and Human Services Department wants to train clinicians using simulations.

Digital Government

DARPA Wants a ‘Social Supercollider’ To Help It Understand Humans

The Defense Department's R&D agency wants technology that can improve its social science research.

Modernization

Video: Tips and Tricks for iPhone's New iOS

New features can streamline your smartphone experience.

Emerging Tech

You Can Now Buy a USB Stick That Destroys Any Computer

The gadget will "instantly and permanently disable" any device it plugs into, says the manufacturer.

Emerging Tech

SpaceX's 'Difficult and Complex' Failure

Elon Musk says his company is investigating why the Falcon 9 rocket exploded last week before a scheduled launch.

Ideas

Report: IoT Security Failures are 100 Percent Preventable

Internet of things security is uniquely challenging because it’s “three dimensional," says OTA Executive Director and President Craig Spiezle.

Emerging Tech

Here Are All the Technologies Star Trek Accurately Predicted

We're still hoping for a warp drive, though.