Emerging Tech

Facebook’s DC Office Seeks Analyst to Combat Hate Groups, Terrorist Content

Candidates should "be excited to delve into the details of understanding and mitigating propaganda networks employed by militant organizations.”

Digital Government

To Counter Russia’s Cyber Prowess, US Army Launches Rapid-Tech Office

The battle for eastern Ukraine shows how the pace of innovation in electronic warfare is picking up.

Emerging Tech

Google Is Going Head-to-Head with Uber on Ride-Hailing

Google-owned Waze will expand a commuter-focused carpooling service to all Waze users in San Francisco this fall.

Digital Government

Secret Service's New Threat Tracker Underway

The agency is trotting out a new system that replaces two old ones.

Emerging Tech

Video: The Largest 3-D-Printed Object in the World

This is one for the record books.

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.