Artificial Intelligence
DeepMind AI’s Next Challenge: Prevent Blindness
Researchers will use machine learning to analyze anonymous eye scans, which they will then use to create an algorithm that can better spot early signs of eye conditions.
Emerging Tech
The Hazard of Tesla’s Approach to Driverless Cars
A fatal crash calls into question the car company’s approach to building autonomous vehicles—and underscores the stark contrast between its strategy and Google’s.
Digital Government
White House Thinks Data Could Keep Many With Mental Illness Out of Jail
Amazon, Esri and other tech companies are also on board.
Digital Government
Why the Modern-Day Government Should Focus More on Big Data Curation
The public sector's data management efforts needs to shift away from warehousing.
Emerging Tech
When Algorithms Take the Stand
A case soon to be decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court considers the proper role of mathematical prediction in the courtroom—and beyond.
Emerging Tech
Everything You Need to Know About the Bitcoin ‘Halving’ Event
It could rattle the entire bitcoin system—its price, its stability, and its future.
Digital Government
A Tesla Fatality and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
The Model S’s Autopilot isn’t technically a driverless feature, but the federal investigation into why a driver using it was killed will still influence the future of driverless vehicles.
Emerging Tech
Video: Bill Nye Explains How Not to Get Lost in Space
The Juno spacecraft is very close to its destination.
Emerging Tech
The Intelligence Community Will Monitor Wearables to Find the Perfect Spy
The new program will measure each volunteer's biometric signals during their daily activities, according the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Artificial Intelligence
Watch Out, Designers: AI Design Bots Getting Better at Building Websites
The goal isn’t to replace great artists, but to make everyone else into a pretty good one.
Emerging Tech
Learning to Fly a Balloon to Fly a Drone
Welcome to the weird world of FAA regulations.
Digital Government
Video: After Emissions Software Scandal, Volkswagen to Buy Back Dirty Cars
The tainted diesel vehicles need to hit the road.
Digital Government
Satellites That Could Trace the Ripples of the Cosmos
The eLISA space mission aims to detect gravitational waves with an enormous laser triangle and floating gold cubes.
Emerging Tech
What the Military Is Learning From a Chameleon Sandbox
Made up of kinetic sand, a toy that feels like the stuff on the beach but has the consistency of Silly Putty, the system's miniature bridges, lakes and other structures morph -- or disappear -- when a finger crushes critical infrastructure.
Modernization
Apple's New Patent Aims to Keep People From Filming at Concerts and Movie Theaters on Their Phones
The “please, no flash photography” rule will finally be followed.
Digital Government
Watching Plants Grow Is One of the Most Exciting Things in Technology
“Agriculture is all about complex judgments on the part of the farmer that are oftentimes stewed down to simple rules of thumb."
Emerging Tech
Why GitHub Chased the Federal Market
It's no cakewalk, exactly, to get the federal sector to embrace certain open source tools.
Emerging Tech
'Innovation' Without a Business Case Is A Waste of Time, Says FCC Official
The commission debuted three new applications in the past week.
Emerging Tech