Emerging Tech
Video: This Mermaid Robot Can Swim Better Than You
It helps that this robot doesn't need a snorkel.
Emerging Tech
Border Agency Has Rolled Out Lots of New Tech. But Is It Working?
New technology could help border patrol keep intruders out, but DHS’ acquisition process is too slow, lawmakers say.
Digital Government
A Look At the Military’s New Stealth Bikes
These motorcycles of the future are turning heads at special operations conference in Florida.
Cybersecurity
Even US Postal Service Wants to Start Using Blockchain Tech
The technology is a decentralized digital ledger accessible to millions of users and cryptographically secured, making it tamper-proof.
Emerging Tech
VA Wants To Forecast Vets Benefits with Predictive Analytics
The department wants to understand how demand for benefits, and the VA’s ability to provide those benefits, affect individual veterans.
Artificial Intelligence
Can Computers Be Creative? Google Launches Project to Find Out
The team specifically hopes to determine whether AI systems can be trained to create original pieces of music, art, or video.
Modernization
This Company is Poised to Dominate the Internet of Things Market
Most of the innovation on the so-called Internet of Things is locked up in patents held by the companies that make the innards of sensors and routers.
Emerging Tech
Video: Bill Nye Teaches Us About the Juno Solar-Powered Spacecraft
With the help of miniature models and a hair dryer
Modernization
Chinese Government Pays People to Post Cheery Messages on Social Media
The public has long known about China’s internet propaganda machine, but until now details have remained murky.
Artificial Intelligence
Video: Google Shares What It's Been Developing
The tech giant revealed some of its secrets at it's annual I/O Conference.
Emerging Tech
Q&A: Building FirstNet’s ‘App Store’ for First Responders
The deadline for proposals on building the public safety broadband network is at the end of the month.
Digital Government
Pentagon Testing Small Robot to Help Hunt Naval Mines
The US military has been looking for an underwater bomb disposal robot for years. It finally has one.
Emerging Tech
Google Launches Own Ridesharing Service
Uber, Lyft and everyone else might be worried.
Emerging Tech
You’ll Soon Be Able To Text Photos to Police. But Will You Crash Their Networks?
A DHS official says there are new challenges associated with higher-tech emergency communication.
Emerging Tech
Officials Worry US ‘Falling Behind’ in Race to Prepare for Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks
Congress wants to ensure federal agencies are doing their best to prepare for them.
Emerging Tech
For the Success of Space Exploration, We Need More Female Astronauts
Even in the final frontier of outer space, women are bumping into a glass ceiling.
Digital Government
It’s Not Too Late for Obama to Confront the Ethics of Technology in Our World
Currently, there isn’t a broad national conversation around the ethics of the steady digital encroachment on our lives.
Emerging Tech