Emerging Tech

Augmented Humans: Next Great Frontier, or Battleground?

Before you dismiss it as pure science fiction, consider how close augmented human technologies are to radically leaping forward, and into the mainstream – and the issues they could realistically cause.

Digital Government

Defense Intelligence Agency Is Scoping Out Social Media Background Checkers

The effort is part of a shift away from screening intelligence and military staff every five years, as is current practice.

Digital Government

Navy’s Future Submarines May Go to Sea with Robot Remoras

The sucker-headed fish are drawing attention as the fleet imagines ways to bring drones to the undersea domain.

Emerging Tech

SpaceX Breaks 2 Records in Latest Mission to International Space Station

This was the company's ninth mission to the ISS.

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