Digital Government
This Is What the Hospital of the Future Sounds Like
Experts are working to create environments that will be less cacophonous and more harmonious.
Artificial Intelligence
Frequently Automated Questions: Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of FAQ?
Finely tuned chatbots could tackle the public's millions of questions.
Emerging Tech
How the Federal Government is Thinking About AI
Artificial intelligence's first forays into federal government operations won't be decision-making.
Emerging Tech
Survey: New IT Means New Complexity
A new survey found piggybacking new technologies onto old systems is sometimes problematic.
Digital Government
Video: What Does a Robot-Run Laboratory Look Like?
There are a lot fewer coffee breaks.
Emerging Tech
How Electronic Voting Could Undermine the Election
As foreign hackers target election data, voters may lose faith in digital ballots.
Emerging Tech
Will Pedestrians Be Able to Tell What a Driverless Car Is About to Do?
For self-driving vehicles to succeed, they’ll have to earn the trust of walkers, joggers and bicyclists.
Cybersecurity
FBI Director: Americans Never Had 'Absolute Privacy'
A renewed debate about encryption is coming, according to James Comey.
Emerging Tech
Thanks to Virtual Reality, You Too Can Hang Out With Obama
Virtual reality is such a new technology that it’s really cool, and perhaps a little surprising, to see a sitting president embrace it in such a big way.
Digital Government
IARPA's New 3-D Mapping Effort: Drones, Sensors and No Humans
The intelligence agency wants technology that can automatically recreate a geographic scene, including buildings, from sensor data.
Digital Government
NASA-Funded Experiment to Mimic Life on Mars Has Ended
Six people just lived on "Mars" for a whole year.
Modernization
Video: The Mobile Web to Become Less Annoying Thanks to Google
Better browsing is coming soon.
Digital Government
DOD Science Board Recommends 'Immediate Action' to Counter Enemy AI
Pentagon scientists worry the U.S. could be on the losing side of a AI arms race.
Cybersecurity
All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You
It can even be trained to read your lips.
Emerging Tech
Why Agile is Still So Hard for the Government
Pockets of the federal government want to change the buying process so technology can be acquired in sprints, preventing large-scale failures like the HealthCare.gov rollout.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence, Tech and Tequila: Come Hang with Us
Learn how the government plans to deal with artificial intelligence.
Modernization
The Internet of (Poorly Working) Things
So, how is it that we don’t have connected objects that just work?
Modernization
We’ll Talk to Our Phones in the Future Because Our Fingers Are Puny and Slow
Speech recognition can finally keep up with the rate of speech.
Ideas