Digital Government

In the Future, We’ll Stop Truck Attacks With the Push of a Button

Sound guns, car zappers and pain rays are some of the ways we will (and won’t) stop vehicle-based terrorism in the next decade.

Digital Government

The Many Ways to Map the Brain

It takes both science and art to make sense of the organ’s complexities.

Cybersecurity

It’ll Be Brains vs. Bots in Vegas Cyberwar Sponsored by the Pentagon

The $2 million Cyber Grand Challenge, sponsored by DARPA, will pit machines against insecure software to pierce the holes -- and fix 'em.

Modernization

What If Cameras Stopped Telling the Truth?

New technology to block photography at concerts hints at an alarming future for smartphones.

Emerging Tech

Make Less Than $20 an Hour? A Robot Could Take Your Job

They promised us jetpacks. But if they arrive in the future, many of us may not be able to afford them.

Emerging Tech

HHS Considers Climbing on the Blockchain Bandwagon

Know how blockchain could be used in health care? HHS wants your input.

Digital Government

Our Weird Future of Loving Robotic Pets

These high-tech robots are a far cry from the Tamagotchis and Furbys of yesteryear

Emerging Tech

18F's Second Project Under Agile BPA: Citizen Logins

The tech consultancy wants to work with a vendor on identity management.

Emerging Tech

Treasury Says It Needs Some New Security Features for Next-Gen Money

The anti-counterfeit markers will be visible to the naked eye and detectable by special tools, according to a pre-solicitation notice.

Modernization

What Comes After the Touch Screen?

The quest for the next human-computer interface

Digital Government

Military Robotics Makers See a Future for Armed Police Robots

As military-grade robotics get cheaper and more capable, someone will arm them and put them on American streets.

Modernization

Will the Government Go for Pokemon Go?

The new augmented reality app is a feat of data-mapping technology.

Digital Government

House Committee OKs Bill Letting the FBI Use Rapid DNA Profiling

The idea behind the technology is to swiftly clear innocents, detain criminals and free up technicians to clear rape kit backlogs, among other things, say Judiciary Committee members who advanced the bill.

Digital Government

Navy Is Rigging Locusts to Sniff Out Bombs

Although dogs’ noses remain the gold standard for chemical detection, bugs' simpler neurological system make them easier to engineer and control.

Ideas

6 Things the Public Sector Can Learn from Banking

To date, the public sector has not realized the same success in embracing many of the same digital solutions in which banks have become immersed. So why has the public sector been challenged in this progressive direction?