Digital Government
How Blockchain Technology Can Prevent the Next Financial Crisis, Disrupt Uber and Give Us Control of Our Data
It is essentially a digital distributed ledger anyone on the internet can access.
Digital Government
DOD Plans to Eliminate Common Access Cards
Halvorsen said the Pentagon will move to “true multifactor” authentication that would increase DOD’s agility and cut costs and the time to issue the cards themselves.
Digital Government
Navy Is Making a New GPS for Drone Submarines
Right now, GPS signals can barely travel below the surface of the ocean.
Emerging Tech
Intelligence Agency Wants to Keep ‘Novel Organisms’ From Threatening Humans
IARPA is hosting a Proposers' Day for businesses in a couple weeks.
Emerging Tech
Facebook Is Predicting the End of the Written Word
“The best way to tell stories in this world, where so much information is coming at us, actually is video."
Emerging Tech
Where Google’s Driverless Cars Should Wind Up Next
If the company’s not ready for snow, it should head to a sunny place where traffic problems and road safety are particularly bad.
Digital Government
Industry to DOD: There’s Innovation in the Beltway, Too
The West Coast outreach doesn’t sit well with some members of the Beltway’s defense contracting base who feel ignored.
Emerging Tech
Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn
The tech giant halted trading of its shares Monday morning to announce its intention to purchase the social network for $26.2 billion in cash.
Emerging Tech
Silicon Valley Group Has Serious Plan for Creating Totally New US Stock Exchange
U.S. tech startups have long wanted to overhaul the process for firms to list their shares and to find ways to minimize pressures on public companies.
Digital Government
Drone-Helicopter Teams Performing ‘Very Well’ Against ISIS
Future unmanned-human teaming looks a lot like the Predator’s little cousin.
Emerging Tech
Spy Agency Wants Tech That Shows How Well Its PR Team Is Doing
The NGA wants Sentiment Analysis tech to gauge its external communications efforts.
Emerging Tech
Video: This Bionic Leaf Produces Fuel Using Sunshine and Water
This invention might do it better than a real leaf.
Cybersecurity
How These Two Security Companies Aim to Fight the Car-Hacking Threat
“A huge problem with vehicle security is that once a threat gets into one system, it’s very easy to move horizontally to all the others,” said Ami Dotan, CEO of Karamba Security.
Emerging Tech
You May Soon Be Able to Check Your Snail Mail via Email
Called Informed Delivery, the service allows Postal Service customers in participating regions to receive emailed images of the front side of all mail pieces that will be delivered to the home that day.
Emerging Tech
Google Seems to Be Working on Warehouse Robots Like Amazon’s
The tech giant outlined a theoretical strategy for ensuring that autonomous and remote-controlled robots in a warehouse facility aren’t overloaded as they move cargo around the warehouse.
Emerging Tech
TSA Curb-to-Gate Security Monitoring Is Coming, Agency Administrator Says
One proposal: RFID-tagged bins for carry-on luggage that roll down automatic conveyor belts for X-ray inspection.
Modernization
Video: Top 5 Features iOS Should Steal From Android
The popular operating system could afford some flexibility.
Emerging Tech